With so many sim games launching on Steam each week, it can be difficult to stand out. Primal Repairs offers a very strong twist that immediately catches the eye: it is set in what is essentially the world of The Flintstones.
Prehistoric Maintenance and Dino-Driven Tools
As you navigate the prehistoric suburbs, your daily rounds involve some truly bizarre labor. The game tasks you with maintaining a stone-age society using nothing but primitive technology and animals.
Your to-do list includes:
- Replacing stone wheels on cars.
- Mowing lawns using a dinosaur on a trolley.
- Building furniture out of bones and hide.
- Waking up sleeping mammoths so they can return to their jobs as water fountains.
Meet Velly, Your Multitool Companion
One of the most unique features is your assistant, Velly. This velociraptor acts as a living multi-tool, capable of serving as a car jack, drill, or hammer. In addition to being a utility tool, Velly is also rideable, making travel through the suburbs much easier.
Whimsical Mechanics in Primal Repairs
The game's weirdly realistic art style makes the setting even funnier, especially since it follows through on the "weird logic" of prehistoric contraptions. The level of detail in these interactions is surprisingly high.
For example, if your lawnmower hits a rock, it will give the dinosaur a toothache, requiring a quick session of dentistry before you can continue. Even breakfast requires effort; you must feed chillis to a captive, fire-spitting dino to heat up your meal, which is typically a large slab of meat on the bone.
While the current footage suggests the game might be a linear series of jokes rather than a freeform simulator, the Steam store page suggests an open world experience where you are free to explore as you wish.
Primal Repairs does not have a release date yet, but you can wishlist it on Steam to follow its development. Let's just hope it isn't being developed on a stone computer.
