Dinoblade

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 90%Very Positive · 90%2026

−20%~~$19.99~~$15.99

US Steam price, checked 52 min ago

The verdict

A short, janky but charming dinosaur-with-a-sword boss rush with great music and animations. Skip it if you want polish, long content, or fair late-game bosses.

Great for

Dinosaur fans and Sekiro-style parry fans who forgive indie jank and want a short boss rush

Main risk

Short playtime and unpolished combat for $20, plus performance issues and brutal final bosses

What players love

Dinosaurs with swords concept

Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews

“What other game lets you bust out actual anime style moves as a frickin dinosaur with a frickin greatsword?”
Steam review · 3.3 h played ↗

“Is it dinosaurs with giant weapons that make you feel cool af? Yes.”
Steam review · 1.4 h played ↗

“You are a Spino with a demonic flaming blade that flips about to metal music and kills other dinos”
Steam review · 1.9 h played ↗

Great metal soundtrack

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“I think the boss music is really what tips this game over the edge in terms of fun.”
Steam review · 8 h played ↗

“the gamplay, the soundtrack are absolute bangers, HEAD BANGERS, full on metal music”
Steam review · 1.3 h played ↗

“Peak game, the soundtracks deserve special respect”
Steam review · translated · 10.2 h played ↗

Fun, fluid parry-based combat

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“The combat is fluid, very flowy and responsive, I find myself using all aspects of the combat in every encounter.”
Steam review · 1 h played ↗

“I ended up loving the parry system, even though I'm probably one of the worst people when it comes to parrying in games.”
Steam review · 7.1 h played ↗

Passion project by a tiny team

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“This game was clearly made with a lot of passion and it truly shows right from the start.”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗

“The dev is actively fixing them though unlike some other games where you wait months for something to get fixed.”
Steam review · 9.9 h played ↗

Good value and accessible to souls newcomers

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“If you're like me and are apprehensive of Souls-like games, this is the perfect title to change your mind.”
Steam review · 11.4 h played ↗

“No microtransactions, live-service, 20 dollars for 10 hour game.”
Steam review · 3.1 h played ↗

Memorable, unique boss designs

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“Boss movesets vary from fast and blinding, to behemoths coming in like a truck, and they all feel extremely impactful”
Steam review · 7.2 h played ↗

“the bosses were all very fun, unique, and challenging.”
Steam review · 14.9 h played ↗

What players complain about

Clunky combat, parry and hitboxes

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews

“Hitboxes are inconsistent too, sometimes catching you on a clean dodge and sometimes letting you off the hook, which makes it hard to trust what you're seeing.”
Steam review · 13.6 h played ↗

“being taught in one of the first boss fights that if their attack flashes *red* you're not able to block / deflect it, only for later bosses to do *NON-RED* attacks that you also *CAN'T* deflect?”
Steam review · 1.9 h played ↗

Poor optimization, crashes and stutter

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“on all low settings using any of my skills HALVES my FPS???”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗

“Dinoblade can't maintain a consistent 20 FPS with every graphical setting turned down to the minimum on a machine that obliterates the recommended specs.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

“a buggy mess that crashes on the steam deck”
Steam review · 4.6 h played ↗

Empty, bland world and repetitive filler enemies

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“Big chunk of it is running across mostly barren environments with random small dinos sprinkled through, picking up XP orbs, whilst trying to get to the next boss.”
Steam review · 3 h played ↗

“Open field is virtually empty—no POIs, no visual cues, just vast open spaces filled with repetitive assets.”
Steam review · 11.3 h played ↗

Too short for the price

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“This game should not be 20 bucks. I'm sorry but a 3 - 4 hour game with this much jank can't be saved by the vibes alone.”
Steam review · 3.3 h played ↗

“The game is FAR too short, and has FAR too little content for the price point.”
Steam review · 4.9 h played ↗

“the game takes about 3–4 hours to beat, so the full price looks inflated”
Steam review · translated · 4.2 h played ↗

Final bosses are unfair and spammy

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“Having a boss ignore damage from abilities and track you through any move you make isnt fun or fair.”
Steam review · 4 h played ↗

“The boss Haku is overpowered why does he have one move that he consistantly spams which is a 3-hit hyper armor uncancellable unparryable 1 shot combo move?”
Steam review · 1.9 h played ↗

“The last boss is practically impossible to beat. He spams attacks like crazy.”
Steam review · translated · 3.6 h played ↗

Weak hit impact and sound design

Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews

“The attacks have no feeling of weight. No impact whatsoever.”
Steam review · 1.1 h played ↗

“a spinosaurus swinging a flaming greatsword should not have more subdued impact than your average pool noodle whack”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Minimum

OSWindows 10 64-bit

ProcessorIntel Core i5-7500 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 4GB / AMD Radeon RX 560

Storage13 GB available space

OSWindows 10 64-bit

ProcessorIntel Core i5-7500 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 4GB / AMD Radeon RX 560

Storage13 GB available space

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