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Also Dinosaurs and Team-Based, like Primal Carnage.
- $12.99 (Price checked Nov 5)
- Deck Verified
- 2015
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Same funny mood as Primal Carnage.
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- Released: 2012
- Developer: Lukewarm Media
- Price: $4.99checked Nov 5
- Steam Deck: Deck Playable
- 78% of 2,525 reviews
- Genres: Action, Indie
- Metacritic 67
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Chaotic team based multiplayer
- Humans fight dinosaurs with primitive weapons
- Nostalgic dinosaur shooter experience
- Epic
- Funny
- Intense
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About Primal Carnage
The closest matches to Primal Carnage: Primal Carnage: Extinction, ORION: Prelude, Dino D-Day, The Isle, and Evolve Stage 2. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Primal Carnage is your kind of game, the closest matches are Primal Carnage: Extinction, ORION: Prelude and Dino D-Day — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as epic, funny and intense, and single out its class selection and dedicated servers. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Primal Carnage is a 2012 action indie title developed by Lukewarm Media and published by Circle 5 Publishing. The game drops players into asymmetric team-based combat, where one team controls humans armed with primitive weaponry while the other becomes dinosaurs. Class selection and server-based multiplayer with dedicated servers form the core mechanics, supporting the humans-versus-dinosaurs premise. Reviewers have highlighted the experience as combining intense and chaotic team-based multiplayer with nostalgic dinosaur shooter elements, while players describe the skill-based combat as epic and occasionally funny. Currently available for $4.99 USD, the game carries a Steam Deck verification rating of Playable and holds a 78% positive rating from over 2,500 Steam reviews.
About Primal Carnage: A savage online shooter, where players do battle as man or beast in class-based deathmatches and a frantic escape mode. Unleash your inner dinosaur!
Is Primal Carnage worth buying?
Mostly recommended
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 78% of 2,525 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $4.99 (checked Nov 9).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 24 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 34 h before turning negative, so complaints are about the long run, not the first hours.
- Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Chaotic team based multiplayer
- Humans fight dinosaurs with primitive weapons
- Nostalgic dinosaur shooter experience
- Tight skill based combat
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“This game is as dead as the dinosaurs, but i do high-key hope we get another multiplayer dinosaur game like this someday.”
“I have a ton of super amazing memories with this game, it was the first game I ever got on my steam account and it's really precious to me, but unfortunately, the servers are dead, and therefore not worth spending your money on. If you're…”
People who play it also play: Primal Carnage: Extinction, ORION: Prelude, Dino D-Day
Frequently asked about Primal Carnage
Can I run it?
Does Primal Carnage run on Steam Deck?
Primal Carnage is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Primal Carnage cost?
Primal Carnage is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Primal Carnage have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Primal Carnage supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
What games are most similar to Primal Carnage?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Primal Carnage are Primal Carnage: Extinction, ORION: Prelude, Dino D-Day.
Who developed Primal Carnage?
Primal Carnage was developed by Lukewarm Media and published by Circle 5 Publishing.