History VideoGame / JurassicWorldEvolution

* VendorTrash: Expeditions for fossils will frequently return, in addition to extricable dinosaur DNA, a number of items not useful to you, including rare minerals like gold and platinum as well as fossils with no dinosaur DNA, like plants and mammals. You can sell these for money, along with fossils for which you already have a complete genome. This is an excellent source of funds when starting on a new island (run expeditions from an island that probably has tens of millions in profit, sell the trash on the new island that is barely profitable or losing money to buy badly-needed facilities and dinosaurs). They are also ''very'' essential in Challenge Mode, especially on higher difficulties where the Hammond Foundation's fees are higher (the fee only covers money made from the park itself, allowing the vendor trash material to give you much-needed cash without penalty).

** On the other hand, when it comes to their fellow herbivores, the trope is largely played straight. Most herbivores can peacefully live together in large groups. Subverted in the sequel, however, which has Likes and Dislikes for the dinosaurs and some groups will be antagonistic towards each other (stegosaurids and ceratopsians will battle each other for territory, ''Triceratops'' doesn't cotton to other ceratopsians being around, and ''Struthiomimus'' doesn't like the Dr. Wu hybrids i.e. ''Stegoceratops'' and ''Ankylodocus'').

A sequel, ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldEvolution2'', was announced in June 2021, and is set to release on November 9, 2021.

** Taken to the next level in ''Evolution 2'''s Chaos Theory mode, where you play a key scenario from all six films and have it happen differently, such as [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark finishing and opening Jurassic Park: San Diego]] and [[Film/JurassicWorld containing the breakout of]] ''Indominus rex''.

** ''Evolution 2'' allows you to pause the game and speed it up. letting you examine your park and adjust amenity buildings without distractions and get through the research and excavations much more quickly.

* CelebrityParadox: One of the dinosaurs you can grow in your park is a ''[[http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Crichtonsaurus Crichtonsaurus]]'', named for Creator/MichaelCrichton, author of ''Literature/JurassicPark''. This raises the question of why, in the Jurassic Park universe, Michael Crichton (who would probably not have written the Jurassic Park novel) would have a dinosaur named after him. ''Evolution 2'' has the pliosaurid ''Attenborosaurus'', named after David Attenborough, brother of Richard Attenborough who played John Hammond in the films.

** ''Evolution 2'' adds sandstorms and blizzards to the mix. Sandstorms will damage buildings, pylons, and vehicles while making it easier for diseases to take hold and spread, remove the information about dinosaurs requiring Rangers to re-scan them, and also reduce visibility; blizzards will prevent you from seeing dinosaurs in the UI while also greatly reducing visibility, slow down all vehicles greatly, and inflict frostbite on the dinosaurs.

** The ''Indominus rex'' and ''Indoraptor'' were abused creatures in the films, deliberately kept alone in cramped quarters to amplify their rage and desire to kill to make them better bioweapons. You can give them spacious open enclosures, plenty of food and water, and other dinosaurs or even other members of their kind (though gene manipulation) as companions, letting them have the peace and freedom they likely desired above all else. In ''Evolution 2'' the ''Indominus rex'' is even friendly with and likes the ''Velociraptor'', allowing you to even give her a pack/family to live with.

** Downplayed example, but the inclusions of ''Dracorex'' and ''Stygimoloch'' are questionable, as there is a good possibility that the two respective genera may actually be the juvenile and adolescent forms of ''Pachycephalosaurus''. This is actually something that Jack Horner, the science advisor for the movies, pointed out; they were included against his wishes.

** In the sequel, dinosaurs now have a Likes and a Dislikes category, which determines what individual species or entire families they can either live peacefully with or will be antagonistic towards even with separate territories. The theropods tend to have other theropods as Dislikes (''Tyrannosaurus rex'' for example doesn't like ''any'' other theropods around, not even ''Compsognathus''), but some theropods do enjoy the company of certain others, two examples we've seen so far being ''Allosaurus'' and ''Carnotaurus'' liking each other and ''Indominus rex'' and ''Velociraptor'' being compatible. On the flipside ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' and ''Velociraptor'' absolutely cannot stand each other and will actually fight now, with the raptors swarming on the rex while it bites and flings them away.

** The ''Stegoceratops'' was originally going to be a hybrid that debuted alongside ''Indominus rex'' in ''Jurassic World'' before being reduced to a cameo on a computer screen. Now it's one of the three new hybrid dinosaurs in the first paid DLC.
** While the ''Troodon'' doesn't greatly resemble its [[VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame Telltale iteration]], it does share its [[PoisonousPerson venomous bite]]. Its alpine skin shares the same colors and pattern as the original iteration.

* NoSell: People who have played the test versions of the game have found out that '''nothing''' will hold the ''Indominus rex'' in her pen when she decides to break out. Even the highest-level walls get battered down, and she's the only dinosaur that can destroy the entrance gates. All you can do is tranquilize her, repair the pen, put her back, and try to keep her from rampaging again.

* ShownTheirWork:

** ''Majungasaurus'' is depicted with proportionally shorter hindlegs. It will also attack and kill other members of its kind, referencing the fact it was a cannibal in real life.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The first dinosaur you unlock, ''Struthiomimus'', is cheap enough to incubate that once you have a stable income stream you can produce them solely as live prey for carnivores (refilling an empty carnivore feeder costs $200,000, an unmodified Struthy costs $30,000, do the math). Additionally, this counts towards the Combat Infamy for your carnivores, which will increase their overall rating, which in turn will positively affect your park’s overall dinosaur rating. If you're worried about the Struthi carcasses, any dinosaurs that have been killed by predation and fed upon will despawn after a short time when the predator (or predators, if you fed a live dinosaur to your pack of raptors or other small carnivores, they will take turns feeding on the body until the nutritional amount has been depleted) has finished eating.

** This is complicated somewhat by the main campaign of the sequel, which has been explicitly announced to take place after the events of ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' while still vaguely acknowledging the player's actions from the first game and bringing back original characters from said game. At most, the ''Evolution'' franchise takes place in a BroadStrokes version of the film continuity.

** This is complicated somewhat by the main campaign of the sequel, which has been explicitly announced to take place after the events of ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' while still vaguely acknowledging the player's actions in the first game and bringing back original characters from said game. At most, the ''Evolution'' franchise takes place in a BroadStrokes version of the film continuity.

** This is complicated somewhat by the sequel, which has been explicitly announced to take place after the events of ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom''. At most, the ''Evolution'' franchise takes place in a BroadStrokes version of the film continuity.

A sequel, ''Jurassic World Evolution 2'', was announced in June 2021, and is set to release on November 9, 2021.

** The ''Indominus rex'' and ''Indoraptor'' were abused creatures in the films, deliberately kept alone in cramped quarters to amplify their rage and desire to kill to make them better bioweapons. You can give them spacious open enclosures, plenty of food and water, and other dinosaurs or even other members of their kind (though gene manipulation) as companions, letting them have the peace and freedom they likely desired above all else.

* AnimalGenderBender: Your velociraptors will always be female, but you can give them skins based off male velociraptors from both ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' and ''Film/JurassicParkIII''.

** On the other hand, when it comes to their fellow herbivores, the trope is largely played straight. Most herbivores can peacefully live together in large groups.

** In the sequel, dinosaurs now have a Likes and a Dislikes category, which determines what individual species or entire families they can either live peacefully with or will be antagonistic towards even with separate territories. The theropods tend to have other theropods as Dislikes (''Tyrannosaurus rex'' for example doesn't like ''any" other theropods around, not even ''Compsognathus''), but some theropods do enjoy the company of certain others, two examples we've seen so far being ''Allosaurus'' and ''Carnotaurus'' liking each other and ''Indominus rex'' and ''Velociraptor'' being compatible. On the flipside ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' and ''Velociraptor'' absolutely cannot stand each other and will actually fight now, with the raptors swarming on the rex while it bites and flings them away.

* CelebrityParadox: One of the dinosaurs you can grow in your park is a ''[[http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Crichtonsaurus Crichtonsaurus]]'', named for Creator/MichaelCrichton, author of ''Literature/JurassicPark''. This raises the question of why, in the Jurassic Park universe, Michael Crichton (who would probably not have written the Jurassic Park novel) would have a dinosaur named after him.

A sequel, ''Jurassic World Evolution 2'', was announced in June 2021, and is set to release in November 9th, 2021.

A sequel, ''Jurassic World Evolution 2'', was announced in June 2021, set for release later in the year.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The first dinosaur you unlock, ''Struthiomimus'', is cheap enough to incubate that once you have a stable income stream you can produce them solely as live prey for carnivores (refilling an empty carnivore feeder costs $200,000, an unmodified Struthy costs $30,000, do the math). Additionally, this counts towards the Combat Infamy for your carnivores, which will increase their overall rating. Which in turn will positively affect your park’s overall dinosaur rating. Although carnivores won't completely dispose of a corpse they kill, and having dinosaur corpses about negatively affects your rating.

** Storms, which are a level beneath twisters, already cause your dinosaurs to slowly lose Comfort until they're over. There's nothing you can do to stop it, so be prepared to deal with the species with particularly high Comfort threshold (tranquilizing the dinosaur while the storm rages will prevent the comfort loss, though then you'll have to go through the rigamarole of picking them up and putting them back down again with a helicopter after it's over).

* AlwaysNight: On Isla Pena and Tacaño Research Facility, lit by the light of the full moon by default.