History VideoGame / PaleoPines

* BizarreSeasons: Paleo Pines has just three seasons, each lasting 21 days. "Triassea" resembles spring, and has mostly calm weather. "Jurassos" resembles summer, and has mostly sunny and hot weather. "Cretumnus" resembles fall, and has mostly cloudy and rainy weather.

** The hadrosaurs have three claws on their front feet, rather than a large hoof on the third finger and a spade-like claw on the second. [[https://taluns.artstation.com/projects/QrarNL According to the concept artist]], this is because they were designed in 2019, before this was discovered.

** The hadrosaurs have three claws on their front feet, rather than a large hoof on the third finger and a spade-like claw on the second.

** ''Dimetrodon'' would not have the tips of its spines covered over by skin as in the game.

** ''Dimetrodon'' has a semi-erect stance instead of sprawling like a lizard.

* ShoutOut: A few dinosaurs can have a blue and orange colour scheme called "portals"; this is a reference to the ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' series of video games, which makes use of BlueAndOrangeContrast.

Set in a world where humans live alongside various prehistoric animals, you play as the caretaker of Lucky, a ''Parasaurolophus'' you raised from the egg. Hearing about an island called Paleo Pines where wild ''Parasaurolophus'' roam free, you set off to find Lucky a proper home and family, but they are nowhere to be seen when you arrive. Together with the island's human and dino inhabitants, you'll restore a neglected ranch, explore the island, and solve the ''Parasaurolophus'' puzzle.

* WindmillScenery: The game takes place on a rural island where people live in harmony with nature. Each area contains a damaged windmill that needs to be repaired for a sidequest, and they can be used to convert certain crops into crafting resources.

* ArborealAbode: All the houses in Paleo Pines are built into trees. In honour of this, people celebrate budding days on the anniversary of when they moved in.

** ''Wuerhosaurus'' is portrayed with the traditional low plates, which are based on a most likely broken plate.

* FantasticFruitsAndVegetables: The tamablume is a flower that's full of protein, used for making cakes, and has a shiny yellow pistil surrounded by white petals. Its name sounds like a combination of tamago (Japanese for egg) and bloom.
* GameBreakingBug: The 1.2.2 patch gave the Switch version a tendency to crash during loading screens due to running out of memory, which could reportedly progress to the point where you couldn't leave the ranch. This was fixed in the following patch.
* MineralMacGuffin: Dreamstones, [[GlowingGem softly glowing pink crystals]] found all around Paleo Pines. Why dinosaurs like to live around dreamstones is unknown to science; either way, each dinosaur you keep on the ranch needs a dreamstone of their own.

''Paleo Pines: The Dino Valley'' is a FarmLifeSim developed by Italic Pig that released on 26 September 2023 on all major platforms. A demo was released on 19 June that same year.

Set in a world where humans live alongside various prehistoric animals, you play as the last known descendant of the legendary Flute Whisperer. Together with your trusty ''Parasaurolophus'' steed Lucky, you'll build a ranch, explore the island, and find out what happened to Lucky's family.

* AlternateHistoryDinosaurSurvival: The Steam page used to say that evolution took the path of "survival of the kindest" in this universe, so humans live alongside easily-tameable prehistoric creatures. Most of them are non-avian dinosaurs, but there are a few others such as ''Dimetrodon'' (a synapsid), ''Desmatosuchus'', and ''Postosuchus'' (both crocodylomorphs).

** ''Postosuchus'' is portrayed as a biped rather than a quadruped as in outdated depictions.

* LastOfHisKind: Lucky is believed to be the last ''Parasaurolophus''. The game's story kicks off with the player deciding to move to Veridian Valley in an effort to locate more. [[spoiler: By the end of the main quest, the player successfully finds a herd of them living in Ariacotta Canyon.]]

* HoldYourHippogriffs: Agami says a lot of these. For example:
** At the start, she says she hasn't seen a ''Parasaurolophus'' since she was "knee high to [[labelnote:an ''Oviraptor'']]a grasshopper[[/labelnote]]."
** When you talk to her at her shop, she might say, "Look at what the [[labelnote:rapt]]cat[[/labelnote]] dragged in."

* GameBreakingBug: The 1.2.2 patch gave the Switch version a tendency to crash during loading screens due to running out of memory, which could reportedly progress to the point where you can't leave the ranch. This was fixed in the following patch.

* GameBreakingBug: The Switch version has a tendency to crash during loading screens, which can reportedly progress to the point where you can't leave the ranch.