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====== Review: Fossil Hunters (2018) ======
Original post: https://misthold.dreamwidth.org/14539.html

**[[https://fossilhuntersgame.com/|Fossil Hunters (2018)]]** is a casual action-adventure game where you play as a fossil-hunter! You combine different fossil parts to make weird dinosaur skeletons to sell to a mysterious Collector. There's 30-ish floors in the digsite, and the further down you go the more weird stuff shows up. Also, there's a background mystery about missing fossil hunters? Plus cute art.

It's a simple concept but really fun...at least for about an hour or so. 

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Game play is VERY repetitive and is literally just digging up fossils, combining them into skeletons, and selling them to the Collector. Obstacles to your success are cave-ins, bugs, and falling off ledges. Unfortunately, I didn't have the patience to keep playing until I finally unlocked a store, which might've had something I could buy to help with the attacking bug thing. 

A review on Steam says there's about 15 hours of play time, which is a very good value. However, I was way more interested in the missing fossil hunters backstory and expanding the (ultimately useless) field guide than I was in the actual game, and I definitely didn't want to play 15 hours of just digging up fossils.

There's a co-op option which I think would make this much more fun (and faster) to play. This would be a cute, casual party game for a group of friends-- or maybe really young kids who don't mind repetitive game play as much.

Price: $14.99

Available for Windows, macOS, Nintendo Switch, and Playstation 4. I played the the Mac version at first and my computer suffered a lot-- plus you really need a controller to play. I then bought the Switch version and played that!