Parkasaurus is a zany Dinosaur Park management game, that challenges the player not only to provide guests with a unique dinosaur zoo experience, but to care for their dino friends by crafting the perfect exhibits, gifting them the cutest hats, and travelling back in time to rescue them from their demise!
Parkasaurus can get tiresome, especially when playing this Switch port. It won’t grab hybrid players who aren’t already genre fans. But an instructive campaign mode, combined with a sandbox mode, means plenty of content is here, ultimately making for a decent (though certainly not great) game.
Parkasaurus satiated my dinosaur tycoon demands. For me, a dabbler in the management game arts, I found an enjoyable park designer where I had to balance finances and set up the coolest Jurassic Park-looking place I could muster.
Parkasaurus certainly is a fun game if you’re into tycoon management games. Instead of building rollercoasters, you’re busy trying to get the perfect exhibit for your dinosaurs while keeping them happy and healthy. The graphics might lack some detail here and there but they’re certainly cute and appealing, just like the sound will give you a soothing feeling. Gameplay-wise there is certainly a lot to do, the campaign levels always take you to a new challenge, and if you had enough of the objectives you can just go nuts in the custom mode.
That's not to say Parkasaurus is a bad game — it does a lot of things right. You're afforded a lot of freedom to build your park however you want, even if the UI occasionally gets in the way. Parkasaurus makes for a good entry into the theme park genre. It could do with some improvement, but I think you'll have a lot of fun playing it.
Parkasaurus is a delightful park management sim. Its cute dinosaur designs and relaxed pace will suit all Jurassic fans, despite the obvious lack of Jeff Goldblum.