Board game
Dinosaur Island
Ilha dos Dinossauros
Designed by Jonathan Gilmour-Long, Brian Lewis
MeepleMates notes for Dinosaur Island
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- Dinosaur Island is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
- Best with 3, 4 players according to player poll data.
- BoardGameGeek average rating 7.52 and BGG rank #281.
- Groups use this page to connect Economic, Animals, Science Fiction metadata with real play history, ratings and game night notes.
- Recommended player counts include 1, 2.
In Dinosaur Island, players will have to collect DNA, research the DNA sequences of extinct dinosaur species, and then combine the ancient DNA in the correct sequence to bring these prehistoric creatures back to life. Dino cooking! All players will compete to build the most thrilling park each season, and then work to attract (and keep alive!) the most visitors each season that the park opens.
Dinosaur Island is a worker placement game where players build attractions and add dinosaurs to gain victory points. At the beginning of every game two Plot-Twist cards will be dealt out that will break the rules of the game in myriad ways. These rule-changes will drastically alter your strategy and decision making throughout the game. In addition to the Plot Twists, the goal cards in each game will be unique.
The game ends when a round finishes with one 1 Objective card left. Players total their points and the player with the most victory points wins.
Categories
EconomicAnimalsScience Fiction
Mechanics
Set CollectionIncomeDice RollingTile PlacementWorker PlacementAction Points
Best with how many players
1
Recommended
2
Recommended
3
Best
4
Best
4+
Not rec.
Community votes from BoardGameGeek
Language dependence
Moderate in-game text(11 of 19 votes)
Sub-rankings
- Strategy Game Rank#221
Videos
BoardGameGeek4
Review2
Unboxing1
Other1
External data
No Wikidata data is stored for this game yet. If the scheduled enrichment has run recently, Wikidata probably has no BGG mapping for it.
Latest Wikidata run: ok · 07/14/2026.




