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We first reported on Theropods, a new pixel art adventure game from developer Lost Token and publisher Dionous Games, earlier this year. Back then, the game was due to be released on Steam in July 2026, but the release has been pushed back to August 20th, 2026. Theropods is a prehistoric adventure with a sci-fi twist. A young hunter sets out to free her tribe from the barbarians who took them. On the way, she finds a stranded spaceman with a broken pod and a reason to head the same direction, told entirely without dialogue, subtitles, or text.
“Theropods took ten years to make, and honestly, the game it became is exactly why it took that long,” said Kostas Skiftas and Sarah Duffield-Harding, co-founders of Lost Token. “We could have shipped the little 2015 jam version and moved on. Instead we kept rebuilding it until it was the wordless adventure we always wanted it to be. That conviction was the whole point.”
Key Features in Theropods:
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.
Think, don’t fight. Every predator is a problem to solve. 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.
