Jurassic Architect

Jurassic Architect is a dinosaur zoo-building game set on the other side of a Portal. Visitors from our world buy tickets to see real dinosaurs, and you build and manage the park they come to visit.

Build your park

Shape fences however you like, paint ponds and sandy areas, and plant ferns and palms. Each species needs its own type of habitat and enough room to roam; its information card shows what is missing. Add paths, food stands, a café, viewing towers, guided tours and a safari ride through the herds. You can pick up and move anything you build.

Visitors arrive through the Portal in groups to eat ice cream and take photos. Keep them happy to raise the park’s level, growing from a few pens into a whole valley. The campaign spans the valley and has stars to earn; you can also play in free play or sandbox mode. Ivy, the park guide, introduces each new feature once, then leaves you to play.

Care for the dinosaurs

Keep herds fed and busy. Hungry or bored T. rexes may test their fences and escape; visitors can flee while your rangers pursue the dinosaur with tranquilizer darts. You can switch escapes off in the options for a calmer park.

Happy pairs lay eggs, and their young follow their parents. Expeditions through the Portal bring back more eggs from over 50 species across the age of dinosaurs. Each animal has its own genes and colours, which you can breed for stronger herds, rare colours and, in a few legendary dinosaurs, a glow at night. Pterosaurs fly in aviaries, while plesiosaurs swim in lagoons.

Events and seasons

The seasons change, rain brings out umbrellas and lamps come on at night. Each day brings an event, such as a school trip, a film crew, a festival with fireworks or a storm that cuts power to the electric fences.

Streamer mode

If you stream on Twitch or YouTube, streamer mode lets your chat name the dinosaurs and vote on the next day’s event.