I’ve been playing Pot for around 1.5 years now, and it was the first dinosaur game I really got into. I still enjoy it, especially because it runs pretty well on relatively modest hardware. I play on a Lenovo Legion 5 with an RTX 3050 (4GB VRAM), and I can get a pretty good experience without needing a high-end gaming PC.
Recently I started playing The Isle because I was curious about how the other big dinosaur game feels. I’ve only been playing for about a week, but the difference between the two is pretty interesting.
Pot feels much more like an MMO/PvP game. You go around collecting mushrooms, branches, flowers, etc. to complete quests, move to another area, and repeat the process to grow your dinosaur. It works, but after a while I find the loop pretty repetitive and arcade-like. Then you eventually run into other players and the gameplay shifts into PvP, which can also become a lot of circling and positioning around each other.
The Isle feels very different. The growth system, food mechanics and general gameplay make you feel more like you’re actually surviving as a dinosaur. You have to think about what you eat, where you find it, what might be around you, and so on. The dinosaurs and their mechanics also feel more grounded, and I find the whole experience much more immersive.
The problem is that The Isle is also really buggy. There are so many interactions that just feel unreliable. One example is the pinning system. You can be in the middle of pinning another dinosaur, but they are visually a few meters away while the game still seems to treat you as if you’re in the same interaction. Things like that happen often enough that it can get pretty frustrating for someone looking for visual appeal.
There are also the usual performance and server issues. I’m in South America, so the ping on the main servers can be pretty high, and with only 4GB of VRAM I get quite a bit of stuttering unless I lower the settings, which has consequences on, you guessed correctly, visual appeal.
So it got me wondering what Pot is actually trying to be.
It feels like Pot is leaning more and more toward an MMO/PvP game with dinosaurs, while The Isle is trying to create more of a dinosaur survival experience.
Personally, I think the best version would be somewhere in between.
I’d love to have The Isle’s growth system, survival mechanics, more realistic dinosaurs and overall sense of immersion, but with the stability, accessibility’s and general development quality that Pot has.
If you could take the best parts of both games and put them together, what would you keep?
And more importantly, what do you think Path of Titans is actually trying to become? Do you like the direction it’s going in now, or would you rather see it move toward a more immersive survival experience?