August 5, 2026 | Lost Token and publisher Dionous Games have announced that Theropods, the wordless, hand-drawn point-and-click adventure, will launch on August 20th on Steam, GOG and the Epic Games Store. To mark the announcement, a new release date trailer is out now.
Theropods is a prehistoric adventure with a sci-fi twist. A young hunter sets out to free her tribe from the barbarians who took them. On the way she finds a stranded spaceman with a broken pod and a reason to head the same direction, told entirely without dialogue, subtitles or text.
Theropods is a classic point-and-click adventure built around visual logic. There are no dialogue trees, no walls of text, no subtitles. The world itself is the puzzle. Players watch how creatures behave, how characters react and how each scene shifts as they poke, prod and experiment their way through it. Instead of fighting through danger, you solve your way through it, distracting predators, avoiding enemies and finding clever routes past situations too deadly to face head-on.
The game began life as a small Flash project in a 2015 game jam. Players connected with it, so the team turned it into a full adventure, funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign and built over six years of frame-by-frame animation. Every character, dinosaur and environment is hand-drawn frame by frame, then handed to the pixel artists to color and convert. The result is an expressive, cinematic world that speaks entirely through movement, gesture and sound.
“Theropods took ten years to make, and honestly, the game it became is exactly why it took that long,” said Kostas Skiftas and Sarah Duffield-Harding, co-founders of Lost Token. “We could have shipped the little 2015 jam version and moved on. Instead we kept rebuilding it until it was the wordless adventure we always wanted it to be. That conviction was the whole point.”
Despite containing no dialogue, subtitles or on-screen text, Theropods supports 103 languages at launch, covering menus and interface across every major market.
Key Features
- Wordless storytelling. No dialogue, no subtitles, just animation, sound and gesture.
- Hand-drawn pixel art. Animated frame by frame, then pixel-converted.
- A prehistoric world with a sci-fi twist. Dinosaurs, barbarians and a mystery from the stars.
- Think, don't fight. Every predator is a problem to solve. Outsmart predators instead of fighting them.
- An unlikely friendship. A story of bravery, trust and survival.
- A striking soundtrack. Tribal rhythms blended with eerie sci-fi synths.
Theropods launches for PC (Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store) on August 20th. Wishlist now and follow the team for more reveals ahead of launch.
Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1091870/Theropods
About Lost Token
Lost Token is an independent studio founded by Kostas Skiftas and Sarah Duffield-Harding. The team began Theropods as a Flash game jam project in 2015 and has spent the years since building it into a full hand-animated adventure.
About Dionous Games
Dionous Games is a boutique publisher with a deep passion for the adventure genre. The team is dedicated to producing games with high production values, attention to detail, and a handcrafted approach to polish. Every project is built around a custom-tailored team to meet its specific creative needs, because when it comes to great games, one size never fits all.
Article by: Susan N.
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