Clawed Is Dino Crisis Meets Jurassic Park, and Dinosaur Survival Horror Is Suddenly Everywhere

Clawed launches today, August 13, and its pitch activates a very specific part of the survival horror brain.

You are sent into Prehistoria, an abandoned dinosaur theme park full of ruined attractions, underground tunnels, aquatic areas, puzzles, scarce supplies, and prehistoric animals which have apparently concluded that park management is better without humans.

So yes, there is plenty of Dino Crisis here. There is an obvious Jurassic Park fantasy. There is co-op. There are guns. There is even a separate Survival Mode with hunger, thirst, changing weather, a day/night cycle, and randomized dinosaur encounters.

And Clawed is arriving at a strangely good time, because dinosaur survival horror is becoming a thing again.

Jurassic Park: Survival is still on the way. The Lost Wild is coming in 2027. Deathground is already stalking players in Early Access. More obscure projects are popping up all over Steam.

Apparently developers have finally remembered an important scientific fact:

Dinosaurs are scary.

What is Clawed?

Clawed is a single-player and online co-op survival horror game from Australian indie studio Flatrock Games.

Your destination is Prehistoria, a dinosaur theme park where something has obviously gone catastrophically wrong.

You are there on a covert mission involving sensitive material, but getting in is considerably easier than getting back out. The park is filled with hostile prehistoric wildlife, abandoned facilities, underground areas, puzzles, supplies to scavenge, and enough dark corners to make opening doors feel like a questionable hobby.

Dinosaurs include predators such as Utahraptor, Spinosaurus, Baryonyx, Deinosuchus, and other creatures waiting throughout the park.

Unlike some dino horror games, however, Clawed does let you fight back.

Very much so.

You have firearms and other equipment, but this is still survival horror rather than a pure shooting gallery. Exploration, inventory management, puzzle solving, scavenging, and knowing when not to pick a fight are all part of the trip.

You can also bring friends.

Which means at least somebody else can be eaten first.

Prehistoria is the real star

The dinosaur park setup gives Clawed its strongest identity.

Prehistoria is not merely a research bunker with several raptors wandering through the hallways. It is supposed to feel like an actual failed tourist destination.

There are dinosaur enclosures, tunnels, aquatic areas, attractions, a resort, safari infrastructure, and different biomes to explore.

That instantly creates the same fantasy that has made dinosaur theme parks such excellent horror settings for decades.

These places were built to make dinosaurs feel safe.

Look! A Tyrannosaurus behind a fence.

Look! A Spinosaurus in its habitat.

Look! A family-friendly safari ride.

Then the power fails and suddenly every design decision becomes extremely funny.

Clawed understands that appeal. Half the fun is fighting and avoiding dinosaurs. The other half is seeing what is around the next corner of a park that absolutely should have stayed closed.

Classic Mode or full survival?

Clawed actually offers two different ways to experience Prehistoria.

Classic Mode is the more traditional survival horror campaign. Explore, solve puzzles, gather supplies, fight or avoid dinosaurs, and complete your mission.

Survival Mode adds another layer.

You have to deal with:

• hunger
• thirst
• dynamic weather
• a full day/night cycle
• random dinosaur encounters

That changes the mood considerably.

A route through the park is one thing when you know roughly what is waiting for you.

It becomes something else when darkness is approaching, supplies are getting low, weather conditions are changing, and the game decides that your peaceful walk back through the enclosure requires a surprise dinosaur.

Flatrock Games has already said Survival Mode is one of the areas it wants to continue expanding based on player feedback after launch.

Good.

Make the fences less trustworthy.

Dinosaur survival horror is coming back

Clawed does not exist in isolation.

For years, dinosaur games mostly lived in a few familiar places.

There was ARK for survival crafting. Jurassic World Evolution for park management. Turok if your preferred interaction with paleontology involved enormous firearms.

Meanwhile, the obvious Dino Crisis hole just sat there.

That is finally changing.

Deathground already offers solo and four-player co-op missions where AI-controlled dinosaurs stalk players through hostile facilities.

Fossilfuel 2 goes directly for first-person dinosaur survival horror with guns, puzzles, flooded facilities, and exploration.

Ferocious mixes dinosaurs with a survival FPS, hostile mercenaries, crafting, and an island ecosystem.

And now Clawed puts the player inside a full dinosaur attraction and mixes classic survival horror with co-op and optional survival mechanics.

The basic idea keeps changing.

The important bit does not:

you are no longer automatically the apex predator.

Jurassic Park: Survival, The Lost Wild, and what’s next

And the really interesting dinosaur horror games are not all here yet.

Jurassic Park: Survival

Jurassic Park: Survival takes place on Isla Nublar one day after the original 1993 movie.

You play InGen scientist Dr. Maya Joshi, who failed to evacuate with everyone else and now has to survive a park where the attractions have developed serious customer-service problems.

Saber Interactive describes its dinosaurs as having distinct and adaptive behaviors. Stealth, distractions, exploration, and resourcefulness are supposed to matter when dealing with them.

There is still no confirmed release date.

The important difference from Clawed is that Jurassic Park: Survival is being built as a single-player narrative adventure where evasion seems much more important than turning every dinosaur encounter into combat.

The Lost Wild

Then there is The Lost Wild, currently planned for 2027.

This one may be even more interesting if you want dinosaurs to behave like animals rather than videogame monsters.

Great Ape Games describes it as an evasion-based survival horror game. Dinosaurs hunt, investigate, react, and can sometimes be intimidated using fire or non-lethal tools.

You are prey.

Act accordingly.

And there are more

Steam also has smaller projects such as Primal One, scheduled for October 27, 2026, and D-Extinction, currently targeting October 2026.

Suddenly the question is not “why does nobody make dinosaur survival horror anymore?”

It is:

“Which dinosaur survival horror game do I want?”

That is progress.

What happens after launch?

Clawed launches after building more than 260,000 Steam wishlists, which is a pretty impressive audience for the first commercial release from a small indie studio.

Flatrock Games also says it is not finished.

Three free content updates are already in various stages of development.

The studio plans to use launch feedback to decide what gets prioritized, with balancing, bug fixes, Survival Mode expansion, additional language support, and Steam Deck work among the areas already discussed.

Clawed will also be available through NVIDIA GeForce NOW.

So August 13 is the opening of Prehistoria’s gates, not necessarily the final version of the park.

History tells us continuing to modify a dinosaur park after opening it can only go well.

Dinosaur games on G2A.COM

A direct Clawed offer could not be verified on G2A Marketplace at the time of writing, but there are plenty of dinosaur games covering everything from classic survival horror to co-op and Jurassic park management.

More dinosaur reading on G2A News

• Best Upcoming Dinosaur Games – The Lost Wild, Jurassic Park: Survival, ARK 2, Turok: Origins, and plenty of other prehistoric trouble.
• Games Like Dino Crisis – the natural next stop if Clawed has reactivated your need for keycards and raptors.
• The Lost Wild Revealed – Dinosaur Horror That Feels Way Too Real – a closer look at one of the most promising upcoming dino horror games.
• Top New Features in Jurassic World Evolution 3 – for people who would rather manage the dinosaur park than be eaten inside it.

Clawed FAQ

Welcome back to the food chain

For a long time, dinosaurs in games were either targets, pets, or park-management problems.

Clawed belongs to a more interesting category.

It wants the dinosaur to be the reason you hesitate before opening the next door.

And with Deathground already here, The Lost Wild coming in 2027, Jurassic Park: Survival still lurking somewhere beyond the treeline, and plenty of smaller projects joining them, prehistoric survival horror suddenly has momentum.

Maybe Dino Crisis does not need to come back to prove there is an audience for this stuff.

Although, Capcom, if you are listening…

You should still bring Dino Crisis back.