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Really wish the option wasn't just "yes" or "no" to reccomendation. I'm really enjoying this game but I also have some gripes. Let's break it down.
Pros:
+Paleontology simulation. This game let's you play "paleontologist" and dig up dinosaurs and clean them etc.
+Design your own museum. Designing the displays is fun. It feels nice to take pride in your museum and create your own displays and such.
+Decent graphics.
+Decent number of features. The gameplay loop has you doing enough different things to keep it interesting. Driving around, digging, cleaning the specimens, assembling the limbs, assembling the complete skeleton, designing the exhibit, laying out your museum and choosing flooring and walls etc.
+Some good dinosaurs represented: T-Rex, Styracosaurus, Triceratops, Stegoceras, even Pteranodon (technically not a dinosaur, but something a paleontologist would study)

Cons:
-Gameplay is a bit repetitive. You will do the same thing again and again and again. Not unusual though for a "_____ Simulator" type game
-Controls are weird when cleaning the parts. If you're cleaning parts from a large rock you can't easily rotate them in all cases and have to try to walk around the prep area in slow motion as if in thick mud in order to get the right visual angle on the bones. When I was prepping the Triceratops skull the two parts were halfway off my screen and I always felt like I was struggling to angle the camera in a way that allowed me to actually do what I was trying to do.
-The exhibit design tool wants you to just cram an absolute ton of fake plants and stuff into the exhibit before it will acknowledge that you've done enough. I set up a classic Rex versus Triceratops display and started running out of available space to place fake plants and rocks before it finally acknowledged that the display was sufficiently decorated.
-NO SAUROPODS??? Seriously, I located every dig site and discovered every species and there are multiple theropods, two different ceratopsians, and even a pterosaur but there is not one sauropod in this game. The museum has a really tall ceiling and multiple levels of catwalks that encircle the room so it would be so perfect for displaying a giant sauropod but, nope. There are none. Also no Stegosaurus, which is a bit disappointing.
-Too much guidance for assembly. Once you've cleaned all the bones in a particular rock you are then shown a ghosted model of the arm or rib cage or whatever and have to click each bone and click where it goes in the ghost image and when you click a part the correct location lights up. I want to have the option to have to "solve" it myself. During the intro you are presented with 3 dinosaur toys and are told that they represent three difficulties and the T-rex model works like I would like for the assembly to work. Just a set of dots indicating that a part is needed there, but you have to pick up each piece and add it. I assumed this was showing the different difficulty options, but nope, other than the toy T-rex you never get to try and assemble the dinos using your own problem solving. You just mechanically click each part and then click the location that lights up.

To be clear, I like this game, but I would love it if the devs would implement some changes to fix some of the things in the cons column. Particularly I would like at least one Sauropod and a "hard mode" for assembly.