Hot on the heels of revisiting lightgun chaos in our recent look back at Time Crisis, another late-’90s classic has clawed its way onto modern hardware. Only this time, instead of terrorists and pedal-dodging, it’s velociraptors in a lab coat apocalypse.
Capcom has released Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2 on Steam for the first time, following their release on GOG in 2025. This brings Regina’s dino-infested nightmares to PC and potentially Steam Deck.
Originally launched in 1999, Dino Crisis felt like a deliberate pivot from the shambling dread of Resident Evil to something faster, sharper, and altogether toothier. Same survival horror DNA, but swap zombies for intelligent, pack-hunting dinosaurs and suddenly those fixed camera angles feel a lot less safe. Special agent Regina’s mission to investigate a remote research facility spirals into chaos as prehistoric predators roam the corridors. It’s tense, tactical, and far less forgiving than many remember.
Dino Crisis 2 goes bigger
Then came Dino Crisis 2, which quietly ditched much of the slow-burn horror in favour of full-throttle arcade action. Set in the Cretaceous period after an entire city is displaced in time (because of course it is), the sequel leans harder into combo scoring, bigger weapons, and wave after wave of incoming dinos. If the first game was survival horror with claws, the sequel was practically a score-chasing shooter.
The new Steam releases preserve the original experiences but add modern OS and controller compatibility, which should mean fewer hoops to jump through than some previous PC reissues of late-90s titles.
Fancy it? Grab Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis on Steam ASAP!
To mark the launch, both games are available at 50% off (around $5 each), making this a cheap way to plug a fairly significant gap in Capcom’s back catalogue on PC. The wider Capcom Publisher Sale also features discounts on the Resident Evil series, the Onimusha games, and Exoprimal — which, amusingly, also involves shooting dinosaurs. Some themes never die.
Dino Crisis has spent years in licensing limbo while other PlayStation-era classics found new homes. Seeing it finally break out on Steam opens the door — cautiously, one hopes — to a proper revival.
Check out Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2 on Steam now.
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Christian Cawley is the founder and editor of GamingRetro.co.uk, a website dedicated to classic and retro gaming. With over 20 years of experience writing for technology and gaming publications, he brings considerable expertise and a lifelong passion for interactive entertainment, particularly games from the 8-bit and 16-bit eras.
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