Period pieces are always something a fun experience. Whether it's the Revolutionary War for an Assassin’s Creed game, the feudal era of Japan for Shogun: Total War, or the Wild West in Red Dead Redemption, games have found a way to make different times in history really come alive.

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One period that can be tough to put in a game is the prehistoric era. Sometimes these can be thought out trips to the B.C. or a lame jungle setting with bongo drums. Thankfully, there are some good examples of prehistoric adventures that may not be flooding the market, but they're a fun experiences regardless.

8 Age Of Empires

This may seem like an odd entry into the list, but we assure you, the beginning era of Age of Empires is quite primitive. The Stone Age began 4.5 million years ago, and we didn’t really start writing things down until about 5,000 years ago. The first Age of Empires allows the player to progress from a prehistoric Stone Age to the advanced Iron Age.

The real draw of Age of Empires, released in 1997, was the ability to advance your civilization from hunter-gatherers to a continent spanning empire. It is one of the most influential real-time-strategy games ever made, and takes good advantage of prehistoric times.

7 Far Cry Primal

Released in 2016 by Ubisoft as the tenth installment of the Far Cry series, Far Cry Primal tipped the normal equation of the series on its head. The player is simply an unarmed hunter in the game, and modern firearms are replaced with primitive weapons like spears.

It was praised for the concept and the setting, 10,000 B.C. Central Europe. It ends up becoming a man vs. nature battle, as you’ll face wooly mammoths, dire wolves, bears, lions, wooly rhinos and saber tooth tigers.

6 Ark Survival Evolved

While Ark technically isn’t officially prehistory and looks like its set in the far future, it still resembles prehistory. The 2017 action-adventure survival games puts the player on a map with dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

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While players can craft firearms and other weapons, the main goal is to establish a base and work on activities like taming creatures. While the game itself can be a bit fof a grind, the crafting and tech tiers keep drawing you back.

5 Dawn Of Man

This 2019 survival and city-building game lets you build up a settlement from the Paleolithic Era to the Iron Age. Like other prehistoric games, animal attacks are a threat, as are raiders and natural disasters. You’ll go from being a hunter-gatherer picking berries to forging iron swords.

The game gives you a real sense of accomplishment because you really have to work at it. Like other city builders, you have to work to stabilize your settlement and this can take a long time.

4 Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter was well received on the Nintendo 64 when it released in 1997. The first-person shooter pushed the N64 to its limits as players battled a wide variety of prehistoric animals in an effort to prevent the Campaigner from breaking down all semblance of time.

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Turok was able to combine fast-paced run and gunning along with exploration in many jungle-based levels. For the time, it looked great and ended up being one of the most popular titles on the console.

3 Chrono Trigger

You can travel back in time to 65 million B.C. in Chrono Trigger, where you’ll find a primitive human race battling Reptites. There are also dinosaurs, primates, and other wildlife roaming the planet at this point.

Upon completing this time period, they are transported to 12,000 B.C. which sees the planet in the middle of an ice age. Two major sects of humans exist in this time period. Earthbound Ones live on the planet surface where it's a never-ending winter while the Enlightened Ones are magic wielders who live on a floating paradise above the clouds. While not exactly scientifically correct, these distinct time periods make it fun to play through this classic game.

2 EVO Search Of Eden

This side-scrolling platformer covers the Cambrian Period, Ordovician Period and Paleozoic Era. Players will encounter a wide variety of other animals and enemies who can be eaten for evolution points.

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These points can then be used to make the players stronger, faster, and jump higher. Basically it's a game of evolution on a SNES and for the era - 1993 - the platforming and RPG leveling aspects were great.

1 Joe & Mac

Joe & Mac was released on pretty much ever console, and even in arcades and PCs in 1991. The platformer includes green-haired Caveman Joe and blue-haired Caveman Mac, who navigate prehistoric settings while using boomerangs, bones, stone wheels, and clubs.

The game had great graphics for its time, and some comedic touches to make the experience memorable. The game eventually got a remake for the Nintendo Switch called New Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja.

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