Running a dinosaur park is going about as well as you would expect in Very Safe Dino Park, the newly announced co-op sim from Panic Stations. It is a chaotic game for one to four players where feeding the dinosaurs, cleaning up the mess, and keeping the lights on are all part of the job, and where the whole operation is usually one power outage away from going very wrong. Panic Stations revealed it with an announcement trailer and a promise to show more of what the team has been building.
Most of the job is barely keeping the place together, between feeding and managing enclosures, selling tickets and overpriced merch, keeping the vending machines stocked, and cleaning up an escalating list of messes that runs from mountains of dino poop to litter, spills, and the occasional suspicious limb. Power is the one thing you cannot let slip, because when the lights go out, the fences go with them. Then the dinosaurs make their own plans. There is even a system for turning dino waste, and an unlucky guest or two, into biofuel to keep the lights on, alongside enclosure building, decorations, new dinosaurs to unlock, and automation for the repetitive tasks.
Panic Stations is not subtle about who this game is made for. The studio bills its games as co-op friendslop, the catch-all term for the sort of chaotic multiplayer experiences you mostly inflict on your friends, and slots Very Safe Dino Park in next to the likes of Lethal Company and Content Warning. We have been all-in on that wave lately, putting plenty of time into Schedule I and The House Always Wins, and messed around in RV There Yet? and R.E.P.O. too, so a dinosaur-park spin on the formula has our attention.
There is no release date yet, but Very Safe Dino Park is live on Steam now for anyone who wants to wishlist it and wait for the chaos.
