About the Game
In Prehistoric Hunt your task is to hunt the rarest dinosaurs from a challenging primal environment. Will you be able to complete your hunting contracts or will you turn into the hunted?
DINOSAURS
You can hunt a wide variety of 21 dinosaur species including Tyrannosaurus Rex, Spinosaurus, Stegosaurus, Quetzalcoatlus, and Utahraptor. Each of them have their own behavior and characteristics. Our species live on land, water, and air! Beware, as the dinosaurs can hunt both you and each other.
ENVIRONMENT
Explore dense tropical jungles, open plains and high mountains. The weather changes dynamically. Experience a full day and night cycle. Discover new special locations. Move on foot, swim or fast travel. Find story notes to learn about the history of the island.
TROPHY LODGE
Build a customizable trophy lodge with multiple rooms to store your full-sized dinosaur trophies. Choose what to include from a selection of mounts, furniture and rooms.
TROPHY SHOTS
Take trophy shots with your catch and store memories from your hunting trips.
MULTIPLAYER OR SOLO
Play solo or multiplayer with up to 12 players.
WEAPONS AND HUNTING EQUIPMENT
Choose from 12 different weapons including .700 double rifle, revolver, .50 cal heavy rifle and hunting bow. Utilize a vast variety of hunting utility from callers to range finder. Purchase new equipment from the shop or find new items in loot boxes.
NOTE FROM DEVELOPER
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You can influence what features will be implemented into the game. We welcome any feedback and development ideas. Thank you for your support!
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Greetings dinosaur hunters!
A new hotfix has been deployed focusing mainly on map editor. Thank you for your continued feedback!
Fixes & Improvements
Added ability to remove nearest special location in map editor.
Added visual guides to special locations when creating them in map editor.
Fix for in development dinosaurs appearing in some lists.
Thank you for reading and we look forward to your thoughts.
Greetings dinosaur hunters!
A new hotfix has been deployed focusing mainly on multiplayer synchronization and hit registration improvements. Thank you for your continued feedback!
Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed an issue in server rewind that could cause hitbox inconsistencies in multiplayer
- Fixed animation-related differences between hosts and clients that could lead to incorrect dinosaur hit registration at longer distances
- Minor sell menu fix
Thank you for reading and we look forward to your thoughts.
Greetings dinosaur hunters!
This hotfix improves controller usability, overall stability, and performance - especially on Tenebris. Thank you for your continued feedback!
Controller & UI
- Fixed back button on controller when viewing notes found in the world
- Fixed issue where exiting menus with controller could cause unintended crouching
- Improved controller navigation in interaction menus
Backend & Systems
- Improved backend stability and message handling
- Added notifications for new game versions
- Warning when playing on outdated versions to avoid compatibility issues
Performance & Optimization
- Reduced stuttering when loading into maps
- Improved overall frame stability during gameplay
- Improved AI pathfinding performance
- Lowest graphics settings now better support older hardware, improving stability on older PCs
Environment & Visuals
- Improved vegetation performance and consistency across maps
- Berry bushes are now correctly affected by wind
Memory Optimizations (Tenebris)
- Significantly reduced memory usage (around 1.5gb) by optimization and keeping same visual quality
- Removed unused assets to improve overall performance
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Greetings dinosaur hunters!
This hotfix focuses on improving controller usability, resolving multiplayer sound inconsistencies, enhancing backend stability and fixing a variety of gameplay and UI issues reported by the community.
Thank you for your continued feedback and support - it helps us improve the experience with every update.
Controller & UI
- Fixed controller RB and LB not working correctly in shop vendor
- Shop vendor tab buttons now scale with current selection (similar to inventory tabs)
- Added “Hide weapon” option to equipment wheel on controller
- D-pad down + B now triggers prone on controller
- D-pad down no longer hides weapon on controller
- Fixed controller not working in Skill menu
- Skill menu is now fully usable with controller
- Fixed highlight issues in Skill menu
Gameplay & Systems
- Fixed contract texts not using translated dinosaur names
- Fixed track info not using translated dinosaur names
- Fixed dinosaur head bug in drinking animation
- Adjusted minimum distances for trees and rocks
- Improved performance of tracking system that could cause hitching
Multiplayer
- Fixed duplicate footstep sounds for other players and corrected sound distance
- General improvements to other player sounds in multiplayer
- Fixed weather synchronization for other players
World
- Fixed culling distance issues on some rocks and trees
Backend
- Improvements to queueing backend messages and managing message rates
- Trophy Claim Data change to fix rare claim issues
Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing your thoughts.
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Greetings dinosaur hunters!
This hotfix focuses on custom map editor improvements, balancing adjustments, and various fixes to object handling and visuals.
Thanks again for your continued feedback!
Dino Rarity Balancing
Dino rarity is now properly affected by selected difficulty:
On Easy: Rare variations are 10% less likely to spawn
On Hard: Rare variations are 10% more likely to spawn
Custom Map Editor Improvements
Control + Scroll can now be used to quickly switch selection while placing objects.
Three large bushes from Tenebris are now available in the map editor.
Updated many custom map trees to match the latest visuals from official maps.
Fixed beech trees in custom maps.
Invalid object color indicator now works more reliably when creating special locations.
Added support for custom sounds in custom maps.
Background ambience can now be customized with custom sounds.
Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Greetings dinosaur hunters!
This hotfix improves item transaction stability and fixes issues related to buying, selling and picking up items in rapid succession.
Fixes
- Fixed an issue where failed Buy Item attempts could incorrectly remove the item from the server.
- Improved stability when repeatedly picking up, selling and buying items in quick succession.
- Reduced inconsistencies caused by rapid transaction spam.
- Fixed an issue where if selling an item failed the UI did not update correctly.
Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Greetings dinosaur hunters!
In this hotfix we’ve addressed several visual inconsistencies and lighting-related issues reported by the community.
Thanks again for your continued support!
UI & Visual improvements
- Fixed visible names of HeadArmor and Hands in dinosaur hits.
- Fixed incorrect sun direction (now properly moves east to west).
Lighting Improvements
- Improved ambient lighting during nighttime for better visibility and atmosphere.
- Improved underwater sun subsurface lighting for more natural water visuals when sun is lower.
- Created a dedicated lighting area for the Seabase on Tenebris.
- Adjusted player flashlight reflectivity to reduce excessive blooming and harsh reflections.
- Improvements to local reflection probe updates for more consistent reflections.
- Player illumination was reduced so the player matches better surrounding lighting.
- Improvements to transition from day to night, and night to day
- Increased mid-day lighting.
Environment Fixes
- Fixed fog issues inside the bird cage area.
Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Greetings dinosaur hunters!
This hotfix focuses on stability and profile management improvements based on player feedback.
Offline Mode Improvements
- Added ability to switch between Online and Offline mode directly in Settings
- Offline mode saves inventory data more often
- Offline mode gives intro rewards
Reset Player Profile
Added option to Reset Player Profile (Warning: This permanently resets progression and inventory).
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Other Improvements
- Added new level up sound
- Mosasaurus heart bleed value increased
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where selling items did not always work correctly
- Fixes to data handling between online and offline, so online data is not mixed to offline profile
- Fix for new damage config missing some configurations and causing some hits to not register on Pachycephalosaurus and Therizinosaurus
Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Greetings dinosaur hunters!
In this hotfix we address player feedback regarding spawn locations, controller inputs, and difficulty settings. Thank you for the valuable feedback - it helps us refine the experience.
New difficulty – Easy
We’ve introduced a new Easy difficulty option for players who prefer a more relaxed hunting experience.
Easy Difficulty
- No bonus to Trophy & Contract Rewards
- -10% damage taken from dinosaur attacks
- No item loss on death
Difficulty Rebalance
We’ve adjusted Normal and Hard to better separate the risk–reward levels.
Normal Difficulty
- Trophy & Contract Rewards increased from +0% → +20%
- Normal damage from dinosaur attacks
- Now lose some items on death (instead of more severe loss)
Hard Difficulty
- Trophy & Contract Rewards increased from +50% → +60%
- +100% Damage from dinosaur attacks
- Lose more items on death
- Non-vital hits deal less damage
- Reduced map information
Spawn Point Improvements
- Nearly tripled the number of player spawn locations on Tenebris
- Added additional spawn locations to Moreau
These changes should significantly reduce excessive walking after unlucky respawns.
Controller Improvements
- Blocked controller stick inputs when secondary controls are disabled
- Increased controller dead zone size when secondary controls are active, but controller is not in use
These changes improve input clarity and prevent unintended movement.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where footprints did not display correctly in multiplayer
- Fixes for missing translations
Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing you thoughts.
Greetings dinosaur hunters!
As we approach the end of 2025, we’re rolling out one more hotfix update. This patch focuses on addressing issues introduced in the recent 0.122 Aquatic Update. Thank you for all the reports and feedback - they were invaluable in helping us track these problems down.
SUP board improvements
- Fixed an issue where the SUP board could clip through the ground when deployed on land
- Added a map marker for deployed SUP boards to make them easier to locate
Mosasaurus improvements
- Fixed an issue where Mosasaurus weight was not displaying correctly
- Improved Mosasaurus footprint visuals
Footprint improvements
Added new footprint graphics for the following species:
- Tyrannosaurus Rex
- Pteranodon
- Thalassodromeus
Other improvements
- Fixed an issue where Tyrannosaurus Rex trophies always displayed the best personal score
- Fix for not being able to play multiplayer. We had more players trying to play online than servers can handle, so we raised the server capacity.
Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing you thoughts.
Greetings dinosaur hunters!
A hotfix has been published with various improvements. Thanks again for your feedback and continued support!
Fix for physics engine issue when dinosaur corpse is frozen far away from players. It could cause fps loss.
Fix for multiplayer where other players gun could be created before their body and it caused an issue
Automated player data server reconnection if lost during gameplay
Improved error logging for debugging
Minor bug fixes
Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing you thoughts.
Greetings dinosaur hunters!
A hotfix has been published with various improvements. Thanks again for your feedback and continued support!
- Erythristic and xanthochromistic skins give better xp and credit rewards like other rarer skins
- Minor improvements to player 3rd person animations
- Tenebris island dinosaur navigation data has been updated
- Trophies that have no trophy shot no longer get empty photo frame on load
- Some improvements to mods: More parameters, improved reloading and mod management
Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing you thoughts.
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Uploaded Nov 17, 2025
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