Prehistoric Hunt
by Antiproto Studios · 1 Dec, 2020
120 downloads
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
Join our great community on Discord!
You can influence what features will be implemented into the game. We welcome any feedback and development ideas. Thank you for your support!
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Greetings dinosaur hunters!
We released first behind the scenes devlog video showcasing the recent changes in Rengurua in more detail.
a Hotfix has also been deployed to bring improvements & to fix issues.
Improved herbivore behavior after chasing player
Oryctodromeus body come to surface when dying inside a burrow
Oryctodromeus to ignore shooting while inside a burrow
Oryctodromeus to notice player more when digging
Fixed loot spawn points in Rengarua that were inside rocks/trees
Improved dinosaur spawn areas in Rengarua to fix missing coverage
Parasaurolophus attack time length to match animation
Grass adjusted to match new lighting better
Greetings dinosaur hunters!
Important hotfix has been deployed to improve dinosaurs & fix issues.
Fixed Mosasaurus from sometimes getting stuck in the bottom of the ocean. Happened especially on Rengarua.
Fixed a bug that caused dinosaurs to prioritize sniffing sounds too much.
When dinos get aggressive they use aggressive sounds more often
Added notification when using satellite phone alternative and missing vehicle call upgrade
Update to flying dinos to ignore player less
Flying dinos can now attack dinos in ground
Fix for Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor and Utahraptors ignoring hits or player shooting sometimes
Fix for invalid metal sound configuration causing issues when jumping / landing on metal like in bird cage.
Greetings dinosaur hunters!
Another quick hotfix hotfix has been deployed to fix issues with world streaming in Rengarua and compass.
Fix errors in world stream config in Rengarua that caused disappearing trees in some locations
Fix for water culling in Rengarua that caused some areas to have invisible water
Slight memory optimization on Rengarua
Fix for Styracosaurus animations not always looping
Fix for compass not updating while in vehicle or using sup board
Greetings dinosaur hunters!
A new hotfix has been deployed to fix issues with physics issue and vehicles.
Fixed physics interpolation issue on player that limited player movement to skip frames over 50 fps. This issue was caused by latest Unity major version upgrade.
Fix for glitching players that are already inside a vehicle when other player joins the game.
Vehicles now get migrated to other players, if the vehicle owner leaves, so they do not disappear
Vehicle seat is no longer stuck if a player leaves the game while inside a vehicle
Updated french translation (Thanks Magsouille)
Greetings dinosaur hunters!
A new hotfix has been deployed to fix issues found in the new major update and it adds achievements for the new content. Thank you for your continued feedback!
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Fixes & Improvements
Added achievements for Styracosaurus, Oryctodromeus, Velociraptor, Diplodocus and Dilophosaurus. Added Rengarua completion achievement.
Fix for inventory bug where hovering an storage item while closing inventory would block interactions of inventory after it
Dilophosaurus organ view improved
Added more landing areas for flying dinosaurs in Rengarua
Improved vehicle status synchronization in multiplayer
Fixed new dinosaurs weight
Fixed some missing colliders in Rengarua special locations
Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing your thoughts.
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
Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing your thoughts.
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.
Current Release
Build 25374600
Uploaded Sep 17, 2026
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How to Install
Prehistoric_Hunt.exe to play
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