It's hard to believe this game has been out for a year already. I'm not sure if this forum is monitored much anymore, but if it is, I just wanted to say thank you to the dev team. Primal is my favorite game, probably of all time.
I'm somewhat of an amateur paleontologist, or at least I've long studied and been fascinated by our planet's natural history. As a kid, I was, like so many kids, very into dinosaurs. Lately, in my post-college years, I've been reading a lot more about the Pleistocene, and Ice Age megafauna in particular. I've also been an avid fan of open-world Ubisoft games: Far Cry, Assassin's Creed, etc. So when I saw that a game was coming out featuring both: whoa, mind blown.
I was a little worried, at first, given that it's a video game, that the game would be too unrealistic for my taste. Far Cry is an FPS, so I was worried there would be a dart shooting machine gun, or something of the sort. Now, I'm not calling the final product a simulation by any means, and obviously, the devs took some liberties for the sake of playability, but all of the species that are in the game co-existed in Europe with humans during the last Ice Age (sabertooth cats, mammoths, wooly rhinos, cave lions, jaguars, etc. - with the exception of the Bitefish, which is based on an African species, I think, and not known from Europe) and the fact that the tribes speak Proto-Proto-Indo-European is what really sold me.
I could tell that the Udam represented a relic population of Cro-Magnons who heavily interbread with Neanderthals (what geneticists refer to as "Old Europe") and the Wenja and Izila are the invading populations of Indo-Europeans from the Eurasian Steppe and Mesopotamia, respectively. Very well done.
You guys took a big risk making an FPS with zero firearms. Thank you for doing so.


