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Go Home Dinosaurs! cover art

Go Home Dinosaurs!

Fire Hose Games · 2013-03-14

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 14, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Todd Rex wants steak. Todd Rex wants YOUR steak. Are you gonna let him take it? No way! Go Home, Dinosaurs!Prevent hordes of marauding Dinos from crashing your party in the world’s premier BBQ defense simulator! Unlock powerful towers that act like little weaponized puzzle pieces.

Go Home Dinosaurs! is a Casual, Indie, and Strategy title released in 2013, priced at $2.99, with an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (87% of 628 reviews).

0
playing now
87%
positive of 628 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Go Home Dinosaurs! is a tower defense video game developed and published by Fire Hose Games. It was released on March 14, 2013, for Windows and May 9, 2013, for iPad. The game focuses on a group of gophers working to protect their barbecue party after it gets crashed by a horde of dinosaurs.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 29,066 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 25k–50k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 628 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2013-11-27) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720162026Week of 2016-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 4 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$1.992015-01-012026-08-192015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-09-21 — best price $2.492016-02-05 — best price $1.992016-06-23 — best price $1.992016-11-23 — best price $1.992017-01-30 — best price $2.492017-08-28 — best price $1.992017-12-21 — best price $1.992018-03-26 — best price $2.992018-10-08 — best price $3.992018-12-20 — best price $2.992019-03-18 — best price $2.992019-07-15 — best price $4.992019-11-26 — best price $3.992020-01-23 — best price $4.992020-04-30 — best price $4.992020-06-25 — best price $4.992020-11-02 — best price $4.992021-01-11 — best price $4.992021-04-19 — best price $4.992021-07-26 — best price $4.992021-11-24 — best price $4.992022-01-27 — best price $4.992022-05-09 — best price $4.992022-07-18 — best price $4.992022-10-31 — best price $4.992022-12-23 — best price $4.992023-03-16 — best price $4.992023-06-30 — best price $4.992023-11-21 — best price $4.992024-01-15 — best price $4.992024-04-08 — best price $4.992024-07-29 — best price $1.992024-11-27 — best price $4.992025-01-20 — best price $4.992025-05-08 — best price $4.992025-08-20 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $1.992026-05-13 — best price $1.992026-08-19 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

902026-06-02 — 4 pageviews2026-06-06 — 1 pageviews2026-06-10 — 3 pageviews2026-06-14 — 1 pageviews2026-06-18 — 1 pageviews2026-06-22 — 3 pageviews2026-06-26 — 0 pageviews2026-06-30 — 3 pageviews2026-07-04 — 1 pageviews2026-07-08 — 2 pageviews2026-07-12 — 4 pageviews2026-07-16 — 1 pageviews2026-07-20 — 3 pageviews2026-07-24 — 1 pageviews2026-07-28 — 1 pageviews2026-08-01 — 1 pageviews2026-08-05 — 0 pageviews2026-08-09 — 0 pageviews2026-08-13 — 0 pageviews2026-08-17 — 0 pageviews2026-08-21 — 2 pageviews2026-08-25 — 3 pageviews2026-08-29 — 1 pageviews2026-09-02 — 4 pageviews2026-09-06 — 1 pageviews2026-09-10 — 0 pageviews2026-09-14 — 3 pageviews2026-09-18 — 4 pageviews2026-09-22 — 2 pageviews2026-09-26 — 2 pageviews2026-10-01 — 3 pageviews2026-10-05 — 2 pageviews2026-10-09 — 1 pageviews2026-10-12 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
53.4%
earned "To the Dino Store!"
13%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,07317%26

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

CuteFunnyIndieCasualCartoonyStrategyCard GameDinosaursSingleplayerTower Defense

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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