NobleGamer Jurassic World Evolution 2 Review
Jun 13, 2025
I recommend this game on deep sale to fans of the first one, as this improves on the first in various ways. After learning that the first game was not going to be developed any further, I vowed not to purchase the sequel unless it was in a game bundle, and sure enough it was in one month's Humble Choice bundle.
Although I have only completed the campaign so far, but there's a few things people need to know that aren't clear in most other reviews:
+"Campaign" is really a tutorial for basic dinosaur and basic park building & management across 5 maps. The real meat of this game is in Chaos Theory mode (go to actual parks/situations based on movies), Challenge (build 5 star park from a starting point), and Sandbox (do anything) modes. The game recommends going from Campaign to Chaos Theory, but I assume Chaos Theory would be the most entertaining, so I'm going to tackle Challenge second before Chaos Theory or Sandbox.
?If you complete one of the five campaign areas, and want to save your completion, make sure to create a new manual save when that happens. Other than that, you can select any of the 5 campaign areas to start (over) anytime after completing each one. It would've been nice if it tracked the progress of each of the campaigns independently in case you wanted to revisit one for building it out. At least there's autosave for the latest campaign you are currently on.
+Dinosaur needs system makes sense and is balanced, though not everyone is going to like it because damned if devs do & damned if they don't. Some people aren't going to like that it has a table of needs for each dino & that they can only be learned after rangers do a status check on them. The game mentions how risky or difficult it can be to put more than one species in the same area, and I think that's just a basic reality. I think the needs are simple enough without being too complicated: A couple of environmental things, one food related factor, they like some certain species, and hate certain others. We can't just expect a bunch of species to be in the same area without getting upset at each other or expecting all species to want the same exact climate & surroundings, and if you do well maybe there's something in sandbox to control that or this game is not for you.