Jurassic World Evolution Reviews

Jurassic World Evolution is ranked in the 48th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
No Recommendation / Blank
Jun 14, 2018

Frontier follows up Planet Coaster with a licensed park simulator, with varied results.

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71 / 100
Jun 11, 2018

Initially stunning but lacking the depth and variety to support mammoth playtimes.

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Dan Stapleton
Top Critic
4.8 / 10.0
Jun 11, 2018

Besides the fact that there's absolutely no evolution involved in it, Jurassic World: Evolution is a bad game because it's just a bore of a park sim. Sure, the dinosaurs look nice enough, but the process of unlocking new species is beyond tedious and actually running the business is shallow and quickly gets stale. It beats getting mauled by raptors, but after careful consideration, I've decided not to endorse this park.

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7 / 10
Jun 22, 2018

Probably the best ever use of the Jurassic Park licence in a video game, marred by repetition and exploitable systems.

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Jun 11, 2018

Despite some opaque game mechanics and missing tutorials, turns out running a dinosaur park is brilliant fun and the best time sink you can play.

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7 / 10.0
Jun 16, 2018

Jurassic World Evolution is a mixed experience, at times reveling in its fantasy and becoming bogged down in its own systems in others. If you're a fan of the franchise it's a fun dip into the prehistoric pool, but the water isn't deep enough to satisfy a voracious carnivore.

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7 / 10
Jun 21, 2018

An enjoyable management sim 65 million years in the making.

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Polygon
Top Critic
Unscored
Jun 11, 2018

In Jurassic World Evolution, you can finally create a Jurassic Park to be proud of.

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Jun 25, 2018

Jurassic World Evolution really captures the feeling of the Jurassic Park/World film franchise: it's equally divided between the majesty of seeing well-animated dinosaurs roaming around and fending off corporate bickering. Unfortunately, the game lacks variety in terms of planning out your ideal Jurassic Park, especially in comparison to Frontier's own Planet Coaster. Evolution tries to lean on dinosaur DNA tampering to make up for that lack, but it's not quite enough. Jurassic World Evolution feels like a solid foundation, but there needs to be more DNA in this amber.

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5.5 / 10.0
Jun 18, 2018

Sadly, Evolution just comes off feeling like it was rushed out the door.

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Jun 11, 2018

Jurassic World Evolution doesn't allow for the same levels of detail as Planet Coaster, where players could build elaborate constructions limited only by their imagination.

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7.5 / 10.0
Jul 14, 2018

Frontier Developments offers an entertaining title under a graphic aspect perfectly linked with the reality of the dinosaurs. The amount of species to discover add much attraction and the possibility of visit the park in third person is all a success,although those who aren't lovers of the gender can find it boring and repetitive

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Hobby Consolas
Top Critic
82 / 100
Jun 19, 2018

Jurassic World Evolution is one of the most beautiful park builder games out there, and we love the way dinosaurs are recreated from the movie. It is also easy enough to let newcomers enjoy this genre. Sometimes we felt progress is too slow even for a strategy game.

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8 / 10
Jun 11, 2018

Business management games don't come much cooler than Jurassic World Evolution, and as subject matter goes it has done the the franchise proud. The dinosaurs look fantastic, the park building is easy and coherent, and the ensuing chaos when it goes a little bit off the rails can be frantic and enthralling. It's pacing where the game struggles a little, with a few too many sedentary moments stretching your patience, but you're not likely to get any closer to building your own park packed with once extinct animals than this.

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Unscored
Jun 19, 2018

A solid framework for a game without any legs. Try it, or wait for an expansion to flesh things out.

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7 / 10.0
Jun 19, 2018

A simple park simulation game, with good graphic. A bit too easy, is good for Jurassic Park's series fans.

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8.5 / 10.0
Jun 11, 2018

Jurassic World Evolution is one of the best games ever made based on Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park. Managing inGen would get you in front of your computer for hours.

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8 / 10.0
Jun 11, 2018

It's quite slow to start and has a pretty harsh difficulty curve, but when everything clicks, it proves to be the best use of the Jurassic licence yet. Running a park isn't easy, but incubating your first velociraptor makes it all worthwhile.

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80 / 100
Jun 11, 2018

Jurassic World: Evolution is more of a pure sim game than Planet Coaster, but it does a good job of taking advantage of its license. It keeps things complicated enough to feel interesting without letting it feel out of your control.

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Unscored
Jun 11, 2018

I don't want to bad-mouth cool dinosaurs, but cool dinosaurs can only carry a game so far.

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