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The game is scheduled for release in 2027.","whyItMatters":"Great Ape Games is selling avoidance over combat, and the diary puts the dinosaur AI itself, not weaponry, at the center of the pitch ahead of a 2027 release.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe roughly two-and-a-half-minute diary features Napper and staff explaining how fear is built without giving the player a fight. Lead narrative designer Tom Hughes describes Saskia as someone thrown from an ordinary life into an abnormal environment. AI and gameplay programmer Lou Thorpe-Monaghan says the dinosaurs act independently when the player is not present, so encounters read as wildlife rather than spawns. Art director and co-founder Tim Mehmet cites research trips to California\u0026#39;s redwood forests for the environments. The Steam store page lists Japanese language support.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Annapurna released a dev diary for The Lost Wild, Great Ape Games' first-person survival horror. Director Gary Napper (Alien: Isolation lead designer) frames the dinosaurs as independent creatures, not attack-only enemies. Out 2027.","twitterPost":"The Lost Wild dev diary: Great Ape Games wants fear from sharing space with dinosaurs, not fighting them. Director Gary Napper, formerly Alien: Isolation lead designer, says the creatures act independently of the player. Scheduled for 2027.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"Annapurna Interactive posted a developer video diary for The Lost Wild, the first-person survival horror game in development at Brighton's Great Ape Games. The team describes protagonist Saskia as an ordinary person with no weapons, and the dinosaurs as creatures that react to sound and movement rather than enemies that only attack. 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