Skip to main content

Neolithic Dawn

Neolithic Dawn Game Cover
56%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:story, optimization
Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics
76% User Score Based on 25 reviews

Platforms

PCVirtual RealityWindows
Buy Nowfrom €15.74
Buy NowGet on Steam €15.74
Neolithic Dawn Game Cover

About Neolithic Dawn

Neolithic Dawn is a single player and multiplayer survival role playing game. It was developed by Neolithic LLC and was released on December 11, 2025. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Neolithic Dawn is an open-world primitive survival game built exclusively for VR. Play as a lineage of 10,000 BC hunter / gatherers on a journey too great for one lifetime. Fight prehistoric beasts, or tame them to aid in your survival!

Genres & Tags
Play Modes
Neolithic Dawn screenshot
Neolithic Dawn screenshot
Neolithic Dawn screenshot
Neolithic Dawn screenshot
Neolithic Dawn screenshot
Neolithic Dawn screenshot
Skip Games Like Neolithic Dawn

Games Like Neolithic Dawn

Looking for games like Neolithic Dawn? Here are top survival role playing recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Towers of Aghasba, Lost Skies or Journey Of Life.

Towers of Aghasba Image
76%983reviews

Towers of Aghasba

2024Open World Role Playing
LinuxPCPlaystation 5+2
Games like Towers of Aghasba
Lost Skies Image
64%2.2kreviews

Lost Skies

2025Open World Shooter
PCWindows
Games like Lost Skies
Journey Of Life Image
58%770reviews

Journey Of Life

2021Open World City Builder
PCWindows
Games like Journey Of Life
Osiris: New Dawn Image
53%15.9kreviews

Osiris: New Dawn

2023Open World Role Playing
PCWindows
Games like Osiris: New Dawn
The Wild Eight Image
67%2.3kreviews

The Wild Eight

2019Open World Role Playing
Xbox Series X|SPCPlaystation 4+4
Games like The Wild Eight
Start Over Image
71%376reviews

Start Over

2024Open World Simulation
PCWindows
Games like Start Over
Breakwaters Image
68%634reviews

Breakwaters

2021Open World Simulation
PCWindows
Games like Breakwaters
Echoes of Elysium Image
69%304reviews

Echoes of Elysium

2026Open World Role Playing
PCWindows
Games like Echoes of Elysium
Mist Survival Image
76%7.5kreviews

Mist Survival

2018Open World Shooter
PCWindows
Games like Mist Survival
Craftopia Image
80%8.4kreviews

Craftopia

2020Open World Hack and Slash
PCTabletSteam Deck+1
Games like Craftopia
More games like Neolithic Dawn
Skip User Reviews

Reviews

76%Audience ScoreBased on 25 reviews
story2 positive mentions
stability3 negative mentions
  • Immersive exploration and survival mechanics with an ambitious open-world VR setting.
  • Unique features like animal taming and satisfying crafting and hunting systems.
  • Co-op multiplayer enhances the experience, making it much more enjoyable with friends.
  • Severe bugs and technical issues including inconsistent controls, missing core tools, and frequent glitches hinder gameplay.
  • Unreliable item interaction and inventory management, especially with the backpack system.
  • Poor audio design and lack of tutorial clarity reduce immersion and user-friendliness.

  • gameplay

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    38% positive mentions, 24% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The gameplay shows potential with enjoyable mechanics like cutting and resource gathering, but is marred by janky, inconsistent controls and frustrating bugs, especially with the spear and tutorial sequence. Despite its flaws, some players find the core gameplay engaging enough to overlook poor graphics and technical issues. Overall, the gameplay feels unpolished and in need of refinement.

    • “I really have fun time playing this game, even though I couldn't play it a lot. Because of the interesting gameplay, I even forgot about the poor graphics (I really liked the wolf).”
    • “I love the cutting mechanics, and stripping a deer, bear, and wolf down to its bare bones is pretty crazy lol.”
    • “The gameplay is there but it's not well put together.”
    • “But the moment-to-moment gameplay is so janky that it drags everything else down.”
    • “If you do what it tells you to do one of three things seems to happen: 1) the spear goes into your backpack, 2) the spear just drops straight to the floor (sometimes disappearing below the map, preventing tutorial completion), 3) on rare occasions it flies off in a random direction unrelated to the aim mechanic.”
    • “Oh, yeah, the spear throwing session took so long I died of hunger in the tutorial and got thrown into some descendant-creation mechanic that had zero explanation and made no sense at all.”

  • graphics

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    38% positive mentions, 24% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The graphics are generally praised for creating an immersive experience, especially suitable for a survival game, though some users note inconsistencies like low quality on certain platforms and occasional shadowing issues. While not always top-tier, the visuals are considered good and have potential for improvement with further polishing.

    • “Great setting especially for a survival game, graphics are pretty good and the VR controls feel smooth.”
    • “The graphics are great and create a great experience!”
    • “Graphics look pretty good.”
    • “There is some jank and it's built for the Quest 3, so the graphics are low, but I think it can get better.”
    • “Get the mechanics done and for God's sake polish the graphics.”
    • “Couple that with okay graphics and weird shadowing that makes it hard to see lots of things as soon as the game decides it is no longer morning, and you get a game that has solvable technical issues that is better played later.”

  • story

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    67% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 33% negative mentions

    The story features a memorable introduction with an engaging first quest, though it leans towards classic fetch quests and dungeons. Players appreciate the base building and survival elements, but some desire a grittier, more intense man-vs-wild experience. Overall, the narrative serves the gameplay well but leaves room for deeper immersion.

    • “The first quest (finding the cave and star chart) was a memorable introduction.”
    • “Base building and pure survival mode... fetch quests and dungeons are fine, but the people crave gritty man-vs-wild.”
    • “- Base building and pure survival mode... fetch quests and dungeons are fine, but the people crave gritty man-vs-wild.”

  • stability

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Stability is a major issue, with frequent bugs making it difficult to progress even through the tutorial. However, users with high-end hardware report no graphical bugs, suggesting performance is stable on powerful systems. Improvements in bug fixes could significantly enhance the overall experience.

    • “The main problem for me is that it's so buggy it's pretty much impossible to get through even the tutorial.”
    • “If it can and does become way less buggy I can see myself having a bunch of fun with it.”

  • optimization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game is well-optimized, running smoothly on PCs without significant performance issues.

    • “Performance has been smooth on my PC—no major issues there.”
Skip Game Offers

Buy Neolithic Dawn

Skip Videos

Videos

Skip FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Neolithic Dawn is a survival role playing game. Common tags for Neolithic Dawn include indie.

Neolithic Dawn is available on PC, Virtual Reality and Windows.

Neolithic Dawn was released on December 11, 2025.

Neolithic Dawn was developed by Neolithic LLC.

Neolithic Dawn has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Neolithic Dawn for its story but disliked it for its gameplay.

Neolithic Dawn is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

Similar games include Towers of Aghasba, Lost Skies, Journey Of Life, Osiris: New Dawn, The Wild Eight and others.