If Jurassic Park taught us anything, it’s that running a dinosaur theme park is a bad idea executed by overconfident people. Very Safe Dino Park, the new cooperative game from Panic Stations, leans all the way into that joke — and invites up to three friends to fail spectacularly alongside you.
This is a 1–4 player co-op management sim with a healthy disregard for guest safety. You and your crew build and operate a dinosaur park from the ground up: feeding the residents, managing enclosures, selling tickets and merchandise, and keeping the vending machines stocked so visitors don’t riot. It’s part theme-park tycoon, part survival comedy, and entirely dependent on how well your friends follow instructions (badly, presumably).
The standout system is the biofuel generator, which converts dinosaur waste — and, ominously, guest remains — into electricity. It’s a darkly funny loop that turns the inevitable carnage into a renewable resource. Nothing says “very safe” like recycling the visitors who didn’t make it back to the gift shop.
Around that grim power plant sits a full suite of management tools. You can:
- Build and customize dinosaur enclosures
- Decorate your park to lure in paying guests
- Unlock new dinosaur species as you expand
- Automate repetitive chores so you can focus on the chaos
That automation hook matters in a co-op title. Anyone who has played a chaotic multiplayer management game knows the real bottleneck isn’t the dinosaurs — it’s the four humans trying to coordinate who’s restocking the soda machine while a raptor pries open an enclosure. Letting players offload busywork to automation should keep the focus on the funny disasters rather than the spreadsheet drudgery.
The tone is squarely in the “friendslop” tradition — the affectionate term for chaotic, physics-friendly co-op games built for shouting over voice chat. Think less polished corporate sim, more controlled demolition that occasionally turns a profit. The premise practically writes its own highlight reel: a perfectly automated park humming along until someone forgets to feed the carnivores.
Panic Stations announced the game on June 29, 2026, and the Steam store page is already live for wishlisting. There’s no release date yet, and no price has been confirmed, so you can’t buy in just yet. But the pitch is clear enough — assemble a small crew, embrace the inevitable mayhem, and run the safest dinosaur park money can’t quite guarantee.
