Time travel, dinosaurs, and park management rarely end well—and that’s exactly the point. Dino Time Raiders, a tongue-in-cheek strategy incremental game from solo developer Luke Webster and publisher Armor Games Studios, has officially been announced for PC via Steam, with a playable demo launching February 12 ahead of its Steam Next Fest appearance. The full game is currently slated for spring 2026.
In Dino Time Raiders, players recruit a team of scientists (and, inevitably, a few wildly underqualified interns) to journey back through prehistoric eras, capture dinosaurs, and bring them back to the present day to populate a growing theme park. What starts as a clever business venture quickly spirals into chaos as raptors escape, herbivores devour the landscaping budget, and your PR team scrambles to explain yet another “guest incident.”
Players won’t have to wait long to dive in. The February 12 demo offers a first hands-on look at the game’s core loop: hopping through time on dinosaur capture missions, then returning to manage and expand your increasingly dangerous park. The demo arrives just in time for Steam Next Fest, giving would-be park tycoons a chance to see if they can survive history’s most bitey attractions.
Each new era introduces tougher dinosaurs, higher risks, and more opportunities for things to go hilariously wrong. The experience is wrapped in charming pixel art and designed around bite-sized sessions that are easy to pick up but tough to walk away from.
Raw-some Features
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Catch ’Em & Manage ’Em: Travel through time, tranquilize dinosaurs, and bring them back to your park—hopefully behind sturdy fences.
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Build Your Park: Design enclosures, paths, and facilities to boost prestige and attract more guests (preferably living ones).
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Incremental Progression: Earn income, research upgrades, and expand across four prehistoric eras: Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous.
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Simple Yet Addictive Loop: Alternate between short capture missions and long-term park management.
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Humor & Chaos: Guest-eating carnivores, lawsuits, and ridiculous in-game newspaper headlines track your mounting disasters.
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High Replayability: Experiment with layouts, upgrades, and time periods for endless “just one more run” sessions.
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Charming Pixel Art: Clean, colorful visuals that make tiny humans fleeing massive dinosaurs weirdly adorable.
Dino Time Raiders launches on PC via Steam in 2026, but the chaos begins much sooner. The first demo goes live on February 12, and the game is available to wishlist now ahead of Steam Next Fest.
After all, mixing time travel, dinosaurs, and a business license has never gone wrong before… right?