Pandasaurus Games Announces ‘Duelosaur Island’

So you say you love Dinosaur Island? Then you’ll certainly be happy to learn an all new dino-centric title is coming from Pandasaurus Games later this year. Duelosaur Island is a stand alone two player game which can also be combined with Dinosaur Island to bring plenty of new wrinkles of game play to both titles. Duelosaur Island is for ages 10+, plays in around 45 minutes, and is scheduled for release later this year at an MSRP of 34.95.

From Pandasaurus:

Pandasaurus Games is proud to announce a brand new stand-alone 2 player sequel to Dinosaur Island: Duelosaur Island! 

Designed by Ian Moss and developed by Dinosaur Island designer Jon Gilmour, Duelosaur has completely unique mechanics that make it an amazing experience that is sure to add to anyone’s collection. 

Duelosaur Island brings back a lot of the same feeling that players loved about Dinosaur Island, but introduces an entirely new hand-management tableau-building engine that is unlike anything you’ve seen in Dinosaur Island, and a really tense “I cut you choose” dice drafting mechanic.

Duelosaur is built around a clever hand management mechanism. Each card in the game serves 3 potential purposes. They contain the DNA sequences for dinosaurs you could create, the blueprints for attractions you can build and also are discarded to take certain actions. Do you create the Dinosaur on the top of the card attracting guests to your park?  Or do you build the attraction on the bottom of the card, which can add to a players hand-limit, income and end-game VP? Or do you discard the card to combine DNA towards creating another dinosaur.

Duelosaur Island comes with 5 brand new full-color “DNA dice”.  You can mix and match dice between Dinosaur Island and Duelosaur Island for even more variability in both games. Adding a copy of Duelosaur Island to your collection is going to unlock lots of cool new possibilities in Dinosaur Island like the brand-new security symbol that can appear on dice to upgrade your security level instantly! Mixing these dice in with the Dinosaur Island dice is a great way to add replayability to both Duelosaur Island and Dinosaur Island.

And of course we had to get the band back together with all new artwork from Kwanchai Moriya and Peter Wocken on graphic design, bringing that same bright flashly 90s infused explosion to your tabletops.

The game has been in development for over a year, and over the last few months we’ve expanded to a wide playtesting group and the results have been phenomenal.

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