Theropods Roars Into View With New Gameplay Trailer
Indie studio Lost Token and publisher Dionous Games today revealed a new trailer for Theropods, the hand-animated point-and-click adventure arriving on Steam this July.
The new trailer offers the deepest look yet at the game’s puzzles, pixel-art world and the unlikely friendship at its heart. After six years in development and a successful Kickstarter campaign, Theropods is heading toward its July 23, 2026, release on PC (Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store).
Theropods is a classic point-and-click adventure built around visual logic: no dialogue, no subtitles, no text walls. The world itself is the puzzle. Watch how creatures behave, how characters react and how each scene shifts as you poke, prod and experiment your way through it.
Players guide a young hunter across a vivid prehistoric world of jungles, valleys, canyons, caves and wild dinosaur territory. Every screen hides a problem to unpick: a sleeping predator, a guarded passage, a curious creature with an exploitable habit. Every object, animal and gesture might be the key.
It’s a game of brains over brawn. Instead of fighting your way through danger, you solve your way through it. Distract hungry dinosaurs, slip past bloodthirsty barbarians, trigger reactions in the environment and find clever ways out of situations too deadly to face head-on.
A glowing stone falls from the sky into a young hunter’s village. Its arrival draws a bloodthirsty tribe that attacks the settlement and enslaves her people. Escaping into the jungle, she discovers the stone’s true origin: a stranded spaceman whose damaged pod depends on it. Together, this unlikely pair must cross a hostile prehistoric world to free her tribe and send him home, told entirely through animation, gesture and sound.
“Theropods started as a tiny Flash game we made for a 2015 game jam. Players connected with it in a way we hadn’t expected and we knew we had to turn it into something bigger.”“After a successful Kickstarter and many years of working on it in our spare hours, the game is finally about to reach players. What carried us through wasn’t a single innovation, it was a quiet belief in the game’s voice.”
- Kostas Skiftas and Sarah Duffield-Harding, co-founders of Lost Token
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
Brains-over-brawn puzzles - 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
Theropods launches for PC (Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store) this July., Wish