It’s National Draw a Dinosaur Day (January 29th) and you all know that’s good enough for me to take a theme and run with it! I love dinosaurs and I’m, frankly, wary of people who don’t. So, I know you’ll join me in looking over these cozy dinosaur games and add a few to your wishlist. Right? Right!

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Cozy dinosaur games

Amber Isle

Amber Isle

Amber Isle is a little shopkeeper simulator where you, quite literally, fall into the role. Your dinosaur creates a hole in the roof of a shop and must make repairs. To do so, you’ll take on the shop and fill it with items to sell by exploring the island and gathering materials. Craft, sell, and upgrade your shop. As a side, you’ll befriend Paleofolk and help build them homes to bring renewed life back to the island.

Steam | Our Review

Dinocop

Dinocop is an interesting little game where humans have brought the dinosaurs back, but neither the humans nor the dinos wanted to be cops. So, they made you in a lab, the only dinocop in all the land. Get lost in the funny scenario with interesting characters while you solve crimes and try not to become a talking head for the human agenda.

Steam

Dinocop - cozy dinosaur game

Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3

Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3

Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 is an exploration match-3 game with a branching narrative path. In a word, this game is meta and is hard to put in a blurb. You’re playing a video game that never got released, filled to the brim with bugs and different endings that are all interconnected depending upon the choices you make. You’ll battle with match-3 elements, earn traits, manage your inventory, and experience a story that twists in ways that put crazy straws to shame.

Steam | Our Review

If these cozy dinosaur games don’t put the mosquito in your fossilized amber, then you can check out some of our other themed lists, like 3 cozy music games and 3 cozy puzzle games.