This Wordless, Hand-Animated Point-and-Click Adventure is OUT NOW on Steam and GOG
August 20, 2026 – Lost Token and publisher Dionous Games have launched Theropods, the wordless, hand-drawn point-and-click adventure, on Steam and GOG. After ten years, a journey that began as a 2015 game jam idea, the dream Kostas Skiftas and Sarah Duffield-Harding chased for a decade and the programmer, Matt Frith, is finally live.
Theropods is a retro pixel art point-and-click adventure set in a prehistoric world with a sci-fi twist, told entirely without dialogue, subtitles, or text, built entirely 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 fully-realized prehistoric journey, funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign and built over years of frame-by-frame animation. Through switched engines, a global pandemic and long stretches of spare-hours work, what carried the two-person studio was a quiet, persistent belief in the game’s unique voice. 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, in the spirit of Amanita Design classics like Machinarium and Creaks.
“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. Seeing it live today, on Steam and GOG, is the dream we held onto the whole way through.”
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. What starts as a rescue slowly unfolds into a bigger mystery, as subtle science fiction elements emerge and reshape everything the world seemed to be. It is a story of survival and an unlikely friendship, carried by two travelers who cannot share a single word.
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 is out now for PC on Steam and GOG. Console and mobile releases are to be confirmed. Theropods is priced at €17.49 and launches with an additional 20% launch discount for the first two weeks.
Get it on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1091870/Theropods
Get it on GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/theropods
