Theropods Release Date
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August 5, in
the year of our Lord 2026 - Lost Token and publisher Dionous
Games have announced that Theropods, the wordless, hand-drawn
point-and-click adventure, will launch on August 20th on Steam,
GOG and the Epic Games Store. To mark the announcement, a new
release date trailer is out now.
Theropods is a prehistoric adventure with a sci-fi twist. A
young hunter sets out to free her tribe from the barbarians who
took them. On the way she finds a stranded spaceman with a
broken pod and a reason to head the same direction, told
entirely without dialogue, subtitles or text.
Theropods is a classic point-and-click adventure built around
visual logic. There are no dialogue trees, no walls of text, no
subtitles. The world itself is the puzzle. Players watch how
creatures behave, how characters react and how each scene shifts
as they poke, prod and experiment their way through it. Instead
of fighting through danger, you solve your way through it,
distracting predators, avoiding enemies and finding clever
routes past situations too deadly to face head-on.
The game began life as a small Flash project in a 2015 game jam.
Players connected with it, so the team turned it into a full
adventure, funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign and
built over six years of frame-by-frame animation. Every
character, dinosaur and environment is hand-drawn frame by
frame, then handed to the pixel artists to color and convert.
The result is an expressive, cinematic world that speaks
entirely through movement, gesture and sound.
“Theropods took ten years to make, and honestly, the game it
became is exactly why it took that long,” said Kostas Skiftas
and Sarah Duffield-Harding, co-founders of Lost Token. “We could
have shipped the little 2015 jam version and moved on. Instead
we kept rebuilding it until it was the wordless adventure we
always wanted it to be. That conviction was the whole point.”
Despite containing no dialogue, subtitles or on-screen text,
Theropods supports 103 languages at launch, covering menus and
interface across every major market.
Key Features
Wordless storytelling. No dialogue, no subtitles, just
animation, sound and gesture.
Hand-drawn pixel art. Animated frame by frame, then
pixel-converted.
A prehistoric world with a sci-fi twist. Dinosaurs, barbarians
and a mystery from the stars.
Think, don't fight. Every predator is a problem to solve.
Outsmart predators instead of fighting them.
An unlikely friendship. A story of bravery, trust and survival.
A striking soundtrack. Tribal rhythms blended with eerie sci-fi
synths.
No word on a physical copy version of this game on this system(s)
in the US at this time.
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