DayD: Through time. Jurassic Rush Reviews

great relife game brakes the tough games up

Very disappointing! Only 2 difficulties: either check or uncheck VERY DIFFICULT (unchecked is no timer & no Steam achievements), So if you want Steam Achievements, you have to play VERY DIFFICULT with very short time limits. If time runs out, you have to replay the level and receive no achievement(s). Basically I only played levels with achievements on VERY DIFFICULT and the rest in the untimed mode. The problem with that is the last 4 achievements are probably unattainable. Not even sure I can get all the ones above those but will try. So far I only have 5 of 20 achievements after playing 9 levels in 2 hours. Oh, well... time to cross UniBit off my dev's list.

I got this game because I really liked the Gnomes Garden games, and I thought they would be similar enough. I find myself getting bored and frustrated with it, and don't really feel any desire to go back and redo levels even to get the 3 stars. I think my biggest issue is that if you run out of time, the level ends. Which is different to most of these games. Usually if you run out of time you can still finish the level and progress, but without any stars. Which means this game isn't relaxing, and isn't suitable for young children who may have trouble meeting the time limits.

Game refused to recognise success at lvl 37, so progress was impossible.

"DayD: Through time. Jurassic Rush" is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs and shovelware asset flippers, 8Floor, who are guilty of reskinning the same games literally hundreds of times and polluting Steam with them. This time, they're spamming Steam with mobile apps. "DayD: Through time. Jurassic Rush" is a pointless "12 Labours of Hercules" screen tapper/clicker mobile app. It's on the app stores as "DayD: Through time and back", where you can download and play it for free. They want your money for this free mobile app on Steam, however. There's no gameplay, just tapping on the screen. The mobile app is made to look like you're making interesting decisions as you're presented with a map of a town/village/pathway that has you clicking on various things to collect things which are then consumed when you click on an obstacle, which unlocks more things to click on. This is so lame and shallow, you could write a script to randomly click the screen and given enough time, it would beat the game. From a technical perspective, as a mobile app, this doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The mobile app features simple, cartoony 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort mobile apps. 3D graphics programming does require a degree of skill and competence and unfortunately not all developers have the budget or talent to deliver this, despite 3D graphics cards hitting the mainstream in the 1990's. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing. The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just iPhone screen tapping stuff. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here. Because this is a mobile app, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the iPhones that the mobile app was designed for. These are unfortunate handicaps and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was an afterthought for the iPhone developers who are to blame for this. The mobile app is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for mobile phones forces upon a game. Once more, mobile devs have made gaming worse for everyone. I didn't spend thousands on building a gaming rig just so I could pretend it's an iPhone. These technical defects push this mobile app below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this mobile app is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 5 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality mobile app is to be expected. Once more we see greedy mobile devs trying to scam PC gamers. On Steam, this is $5 USD, on app stores, it's free. Mobile devs must learn PC gamers are not here to be gouged, and can't be expected to pay a premium for a free mobile app just because it's been lazily dumped on Steam. This is unacceptable disrespect for PC gamers. For comparison, the $5 asking price for this game could get you games like "Portal 2", "Civilization VI" or "Don't Starve Together". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this. There's also thousands of free, superior quality games on Steam. Because this can be played free elsewhere, and because of the other defects, it's impossible to recommend. Who do they think we are?

Okay so it is a bit on the boring side. And the story is kind of dumb. And it isn't really a lot of fun. But I got it on sale! If you get it on deep sale then yes, I recommend it. After all it could have been worse.

DayD: Through time. Jurassic Rush is a time/resource management game with dinosaurs and robots! It has nice graphics, okay music and it functions well. You collect resources, remove obstacles, build quarries, sawmills, etc. It's similair to the 12 Labors of Hercules series and is a lot of fun! Pick it up if you are a fan of the genre.

Basically a reskinned Gnomes Garden series but more expensive and less fun. Most time management games like this offer 3 difficulty levels, but this one only has 2 - no timer and "very hard" which has an extremely short timer. To get 3 stars in very hard mode is challenging but can (and usually has to) be done without even using 3/4 of the map which makes you wonder why they even bothered putting the rest of it in. Very little variation in levels, so it gets pretty dull after a while. EDIT: Managed to get the achievements to work which is a bonus.