Deathground (upcoming video game)
Template:Infobox video game Deathground is an upcoming survival horror video game by developer and publisher Jaw Drop Games. A Kickstarter campaign was launched in July 2020 to help fund the game, which is being developed for Windows. It received an early access release on Steam on 7 October 2025.
Gameplay
Deathground is a survival horror game played from a first-person perspective.[1] Players take on the role of humans who must fight for survival against dinosaurs while navigating through various environments and facilities.[2] The game has six character classes, and it can be played solo or as a co-op game with up to four players total.[3] Players must search and investigate the environment in order to complete objectives and acquire resources for survival.[2] The game features several dinosaurs, including Compsognathus, Utahraptor, Allosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Brachiosaurus, and Triceratops.[4][5][6]
Development and release
Deathground was announced in July 2020,[7] and had been in development for more than six months by Jaw Drop Games,[8] a British indie game developer.[9] Progress up to that point was self-funded.[8] The game's announcement was accompanied by a trailer and the launch of a Kickstarter campaign to raise additional funding.[7] Jaw Drop Games quickly reached its financing goal,[10][11] and periodically released new images and trailers as development continued.[12]
Gaming outlets favorably compared Deathground to the Jurassic Park franchise and the video game Alien: Isolation (2014).[9][8][13] The latter was acknowledged as a source of inspiration, as well as other games such as Dino Crisis (1999) and GTFO (2021). The film Jurassic Park (1993) also inspired the development team.[2] Ryan Scott of Fangoria wrote about Deathground in 2023, after seeing a new trailer, that it "looks like the Jurassic Park video game we've deserved for a long, long time."[14] Writers for PCGamesN also believed that Deathground could fill the void left by the Dino Crisis series, dormant since 2003.[9][15]
The development team sought to ensure paleontological accuracy, for instance by including feathered dinosaurs such as Utahraptor,[7] although feathers can be toggled off if desired.[16] Deathground is being developed with Unreal Engine 5.[12] The game's composer is David Housden.[17]
Deathground was originally planned for an early access release on Steam in the third quarter of 2021,[8] to be followed by a full release the next year.[18] However, the game missed both dates as development continued.[1][19] A new trailer debuted in March 2025, with the early access release scheduled for later in the year,[17][20] eventually occurring on October 7.[21]
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