Cenozoic Survival is a survival game created on Roblox, and owned by Charley_Goji
. Similar to The Isle or Saurian, in which you play as (usually) a prehistoric animal; however, this game is focused on Cenozoic animals rather than Mesozoic animals like The Isle or one particular Mesozoic ecosystem like Saurian.
The beta can be found here. Development has moved to the Testing Branch, which has a different map, animals with updated models, controls, and mechanics (currently only the dire wolf and tule elk for most players, and Kelenken is currently restricted to QA Testers), and some animals that haven't been updated yet, such as pronghorns and American alligators.
Cenozoic Survival provides examples of:
- Animals Lack Attributes: None of the animals have visible genitals, cloacas, anuses, nor nipples.
- Anti-Frustration Feature: When a herbivore is killed by another player in the Testing Branch, an invisible (unless you turn on scent) barrier which prevents herbivores from preventing carnivores forms around the corpse to prevent herbivores form guarding the carcasses of their allies from predators and/or scavengers.
- Feathered Fiend: Kelenken guillermoi, a Phorusrhacid or "Terror Bird" is one of the playable animals and is a predatory flightless bird as tall as a human.
- Herbivores Are Friendly: Averted. Feel free to be as aggressive as you like, as there's no coded penaltiesnote for being aggressive.
- Nobody Poops: None of the animals poop.
- Obvious Rule Patch:
- When a herbivore is killed by another player in the Testing Branch, an invisible (unless you turn on scent) barrier which prevents herbivores from preventing carnivores forms around the corpse to prevent herbivores form guarding the carcasses of their allies from predators and/or scavengers.
- Stress is a mechanic where if an animal bigger than you gets close, unless you're drinking, you will dehydrate faster and your view will start to blur over time.
- Stress itself has Obvious Rule Patches with the fact that it does not increase when drinking, and that it is nullified when hunting, so that crocodilians can ambush drinking players and so it does not hinder hunting respectively.
- No Plot? No Problem!: There is no explanation as to why there are a bunch of animals from all over the world, all over the Cenozoic in the same place.
- Poisonous Person: Downplayed. Eating yellow berries as a Carolina parakeet raises a meter that decreases over time. If the meter decreases to zero, or you simply have not eaten any yellow berries yet, you are just as edible as any other animal.
- Roc Birds: Downplayed. While the upcoming Argentavis and the Haast's eagle are larger than any living bird of prey, the former is about as large as a human, while the latter is smaller.
- Survival Sandbox: Your animal has a hunger, health, oxygen, and thirst meter that has to be maintained to survive. Other than that, there's no goals or objectives.
- Wizard Needs Food Badly: You need to manage your player animal's hunger and thirst. If you run out of either you die.
