Games that let you play as a Dinosaur

Playing as a dinosaur has to be a native option, no mods. Riding on one as a mount does not count, it must be the actively controlled participant. Bonus points if they aren't a boring, abandoned in early access, multiplayer survival game or Jurassic Park related.

Let me know any I missed

Possess a realistic T-Rex and Yoshi

See Yoshi's Island
Grimlock has a T-Rex mode
Gon is a vague looking theropod dinosaur and they gave him boxing gloves
Has a vs mode where you can be dinosaurs if you unlocked them with points
Yoshi is the first playable character
See Yoshi's Island
Riptor is now a cybernetic dinosaur that looks more like a standard raptro
See Yoshi's Island but now he's wool
Heisei Godzilla is playable

See Godzilla Kaiju Daikessen
Dino run and jumper
Heisei Godzilla is dlc

See Godzilla Kaiju Daikessen
Multiplayer Survival? Says its an MMO
Early Access? ✓ According to a post from 9 months ago
Abandoned? No! update in late February 2024
Heisei Godzilla is canonically a mutated Godzillasaurus
Riptor is a snake like dinosaur interpretation
Multiplayer survival? ✓
Early access? ✓
Abandoned? No! Got an update March 9, 2024
Capture and breed dinosaurs and use them as units
Alex is a raptor with boxing gloves

PUT HIM IN TEKKEN 8 HARADA!
Catch all for the series
Yoshi is selectable, and in later entries so is Birdo

See Yoshi's Island
Lego dinos are playable and you can make your own hybrid
Heisei Godzilla is playable

See Godzilla Kaiju Daikessen
See Yoshi's Island
See Yoshi's Island but now he's crafted
Turn based dinosaur fights
Minigame has a playable raptor
Humans who can turn into 5 dinosaurs or 2 stupid primates, a Sabretooth, and some val haazak looking fucker. Vice versa is also an option but why would you want to go from dinosaur to human?
Catch all for the series
Yoshi is selectable as is Birdo in later entries
See Yoshi's Island
5 campaigns and only 2 of them force you to be a boring human, Sara Harding from the titled movie and a generic human hunter. Imagine prefering those over Compy, Raptor, and T-Rex

Also the loading screens and FMVs GO SO HARD
Multiplayer survival? ✓
Early Access? ✓
Abandoned? ✓
Heisei Godzilla is playable

See Godzilla Kaiju daikessen
DINOSAUR FIGHTING GAME

Honestly I think is a hidden gem
Playable Raptor
I HATE THIS GAME but you can be a raptors in the vs mode
5 Dinosaurs and 2 stupid mammals
Playable dinosaur fights
I remember beta testing this game. Multiplayer vs. Dinos vs humans
Mid 2010s nickelodeon lookin ass dinosaurs
Multiplayer, dinosaur infantry available
Multiplayer Survival? Single Player Survival
Early Access? ✓
Abandoned? Apparently not but updates are rare and slow to release
Top down platformer but the ony playable dinosaur is Aladar, the rest are those dumb Lemurs
Another Dinosaur Fighting game
Mid 2010s nickelodeon looking ass dinos but now kart racing
Make your own dino character
Dino racer

Played this game almost as much as the Jurassic Park Lightgun shooter at Chuck E Cheese

6 Comments


3 months ago

Tekken 2 (Alex)

3 months ago

@wheatie I'M A FRAUD! I MAIN HIM!
Super Mario Odyssey (Yoshi and the realistic dino)

3 months ago

@NOWITSREYNTIME17 I was getting too lost in the sauce when I've now forgotten 2 very easy entries. I even mentioned Odyssey to myself while this list was in CONCEPTION!

3 months ago

Tekken 3 if you count Gon as a dinosaur

3 months ago

@VioletGogles Gon is stated to be a dinosaur in the manga source, so he counts


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