Isles of Yore Reviews

Played a large amount of time in The Isle and Beasts of Bermuda, the "grow a dino" genre and this is another entry. Being more like the isle then beasts of bermuda. This game has a load of potential, and I will be spending some hours in this. Unlike the aforementioned games, this one does not make the ecosystem an after thought. There are actually ai dinos and other creatures dynamically around the map. Even a solo player on an empty server can make a dinosaur and walk around the map and chill doing dinosaur things before getting eaten by a trex. Tracking prey. Travelling around. Getting bigger. Basking in the sun. Survival elements are genre standard hp, water, food, oxygen while adding temperature. Watch out for the hot springs! Dinosaur selection currently okay but leaves a lot to be desired with no fliers and one semi-aquatic. Top 3 things that need improvement: 1. Fliers- dev has stated they would like to work in aquatics first but the game is crying for fliers. 2. AI behavior. Currently quite basic, does things like move seemingly as a group, runs away, fights back and kill each other. But sometimes stand still, pathfinding issues, or react oddly. 3. Clipping. Clipping body parts into the ground. Clipping items that are grabbed. Clipping into terrain. Clipping is an issue. Some of it is a polish issue in animations and whatnot but it's critical to feeling and looking good. A large part of gameplay is chilling and deciding what to do next. Staring at your dino is part of that and clipping seriously detracts from that. All in all this will likely be my new dino game as a solo player of isle/beasts until I want to play a flier.