An idle RPG of prehistoric survival. Gather, craft, hunt and tame across thirteen interlocking skills and 57 dinosaur species, then break through ten biomes sealed behind apex guardians. It keeps playing while you don't, so you come back to a valley that got on without you.

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About This Game

The valley does not wait for you. Primal Idle is an idle RPG of prehistoric survival. Thirteen interlocking skills, 57 tameable species, and ten biomes each sealed behind an apex guardian. You start with a handful of berries and a sharp rock. You end with a tribe at your back, a stable full of tamed giants, and the Sundered One finally beaten.

And it keeps playing while you don't. Close it, sleep, go to work every skill runs on, and you come back to a full bank, finished smelts, grown crops and expeditions that returned without you.

Thirteen skills, one economy

Foraging, Logging, Mining, Fishing, Cooking, Crafting, Smithing, Alchemy, Hunting, Taming, Expeditions, Delving and Farming ..412 actions between them, and almost nothing is a dead end. Ore becomes ingots become the spear that finally wins the hunt you kept losing. Berries become the tonic that keeps a Raptor calm long enough to tame. Every skill you level makes some other skill's wall a little shorter.

Tame the things that are trying to eat you

57 species, from a Compsognathus you could stand on to a Giganotosaurus that could stand on you. Wear one down, feed it what it actually wants, and it joins your stable. Then breed it. Imprint the hatchlings for permanent stat bonuses, kit them out with 25 pieces of dino gear, and send them out to work while you do something else. Thirteen pets tag along for the ride.

Ten biomes, ten guardians

The Grasslands are forgiving. The Redwood Wilds are not, and the Cavern Depths are actively hostile. Each biome is sealed behind an apex guardian. The Thunderfoot Matriarch, the Hollow King, the Tide Leviathan, Frostmaw and every one of them is a genuine wall you have to build past rather than grind through. Beyond the last of them lie the Sundered Vale and three rift zones that do not follow the valley's rules.

A homestead, a tribe, and neighbours who want both

Raise 16 structures, push your camp through four tiers and six material ages, and staff it with hired hands who work while you're away. Fifteen rival tribes share the valley and have their own opinions about that. Take contracts, run dispatch missions, dig up 10 sites and fill 10 museum wings, and follow a four-act story from Act I — Roots to Act IV — War in the Vale.

Built to be left alone

Idle games live or die on what happens while you're gone, so offline progress here is the same code that runs live play not an estimate, not a summary screen. Eighteen hours banked by default, and more once you invest in it. Cloud saves carry the same valley between your machines, so the run you left on your desktop is the run you pick up anywhere else.

What's in the valley

  • 13 skills and 412 actions

  • 582 items , 135 equippable across 6 slots, 32 potions, 25 pieces of dino gear, 11 drop-only equipment sets

  • 57 tameable species and 13 pets

  • 10 biomes, 10 apex guardians, 3 rift zones

  • 144 achievements across 47 tracks

  • 15 quests in 4 acts, 33 contracts, 40 chronicle notes

  • 10 dig sites, 10 museum wings, 15 crops, 26 trade goods

  • 16 homestead structures and 15 rival tribes

  • 900+ hand-drawn icons, every one of them made for this game

Bought once, and that's the end of it

No ads. No energy meters. No timers you can pay to skip. No in-game purchases of any kind. You buy the game, and then you have the game.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 (64-bit) or later
    • Processor: Any 64-bit x86 processor (Intel Core i3 / AMD equivalent)
    • Memory: 4096 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Integrated graphics with hardware acceleration (Intel HD 4000 or equivalent); 1024x640 minimum display resolution
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Any Windows-compatible audio device
    • Additional Notes: Primal Idle is fully playable offline — an internet connection is only needed for optional cloud saves that sync your progress with and other devices. The game window requires a minimum resolution of 1024x640.
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 11 (64-bit)
    • Processor: Any modern multi-core 64-bit processor
    • Memory: 8192 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Any hardware-accelerated GPU; 1920x1080 or larger display
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 1024 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Any Windows-compatible audio device
    • Additional Notes: Primal Idle is fully playable offline — an internet connection is only needed for optional cloud saves that sync your progress with and other devices. The game window requires a minimum resolution of 1024x640.
    Minimum:
    • Requires an Apple processor
    • OS: macOS 12 Monterey
    • Processor: Apple Silicon or Intel Core i3 (universal binary — runs natively on both)
    • Memory: 4096 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Any Metal-capable GPU, including integrated; 1024x640 minimum display resolution
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Any macOS-compatible audio device
    • Additional Notes: Primal Idle is fully playable offline — an internet connection is only needed for optional cloud saves that sync your progress with and other devices. The game window requires a minimum resolution of 1024x640.
    Recommended:
    • Requires an Apple processor
    • OS: macOS 14 Sonoma or later
    • Processor: Apple Silicon (M1 or later)
    • Memory: 8192 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Any Metal-capable GPU; 1920x1080 or larger display
    • Storage: 1024 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Any macOS-compatible audio device
    • Additional Notes: Primal Idle is fully playable offline — an internet connection is only needed for optional cloud saves that sync your progress with and other devices. The game window requires a minimum resolution of 1024x640.
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