The Lost Wild: Dino survival adventure impresses in the trailer

Welcome to Jurassic… The Lost Wild! With a new Steam trailer for the first-person survival horror The Lost Wild, the development studio Great Ape Games shows just how frightening the time lizards can still be these days.

With its ambitious project, the British developer has set itself the task of creating an immersive and cinematic game that “captures the awe and terror of nature’s most magnificent beasts […] with dinosaurs that behave like wild animals, not like monsters.” This concept is already evident in the trailer, so the game scenes in the beautiful Unreal Engine certainly evoke memories of classic films like Jurassic Park.

Why is?

You play the reporter Saskia and are mysteriously stranded in the authentically designed, prehistoric wilderness, in constant danger of falling between the razor-sharp teeth of the local Cretaceous monsters. The task is simple: Find out what this facility is all about – and survive. On your way through the hostile game world and the overgrown research facilities you are accompanied by a mysterious voice from a radio. Can she help you unravel the mystery?

The gameplay is reminiscent of the horror survival title Alien: Isolation, so the focus is less on fighting the overpowering beings and more on not getting into this situation in the first place. You sneak, run and hide, learn about the behavior of the beasts, distract them or fight back with torches and other non-lethal weapons to escape the ravenous maws of the time hunters.

According to the developer, The Lost Wild will offer six to ten hours of playtime and will be published on Steam, the Epic Game Store and GOG. Versions for the next-gen consoles should be submitted later. Whether the cat and mouse game can live up to its ambitions or whether they are just as extinct in the finished game as their prehistoric protagonists will be seen when the game is released in late 2024/early 2025. Until then, the trailer definitely stands for a unique T-REXperience…