A creepy roadside dinosaur park, mascot suits that move on their own and a monster called Dennis. This Game Pass horror game surprised me in the best way.
Verdict Play It Now
I went into Terrible Lizards thinking it was a creepy little dinosaur game. Then it turned into a parkour game, and I was not ready. In a good way. Between the climbing, the freaky mascot suits and a mystery that keeps getting darker, this one surprised me more than almost anything I’ve played lately.
Terrible Lizards is horror parkour I never saw coming, and I'm invested.
CMoney, OnPoint 4 Gamers
What it is
Terrible Lizards is a first person horror game and the debut game from WDR Studios, founded by the creators behind JT Music, published by Digital Pajamas with Behaviour Interactive. It came out October 29, 2026, on Xbox Series X|S, PC and the cloud, and it’s on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass day one. If you want to buy it, it’s $24.99.
It’s 1992, and you play as Jordan, a college student whose car dies in the New Mexico desert off Route 66. No cell phones, no help coming. The only place around is Dalton’s Dinos, a once must-see roadside dinosaur attraction that looks closed, looks empty and looks very suspect. You go in looking for a phone, and a voice on the other end asks you to help find a missing child. What you find is a park full of animatronic dinosaurs, mascot suits leaking black muck and a whole lot of secrets. There are no weapons. You run, you climb and you survive.
Wait, this is a parkour game?
The parkour caught me completely off guard, and I loved it. Running, sliding, jumping and swinging across the exhibits and up into the rafters feels good, and it gets harder and smarter as you go. At one point I got too cocky, missed a jump and had to slow down and be methodical. That’s the right kind of challenge. When you do fall, it puts you right back where you were, so you never lose your flow. I appreciate that a lot.
I also really like the art style. The park has that faded, old roadside attraction look, cartoons playing in the gift shops, painted dinosaurs everywhere, and it all slowly gets creepier the deeper you go.
Those suits, man
Those dinosaur mascot suits are evil looking. It gives me Five Nights at Freddy’s vibes, with a little Jurassic Park mixed in. You walk past a suit, look back, and it’s gone. Doors open and close on their own. Something chases you down and you’re just running for the next door. It got me with a couple of jump scares, and one moment where a full dinosaur moved had me yelling.
The mystery of Dennis
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The story is what has me hooked. You piece it together through notes, journals, phone calls and tapes left all over the park. Dalton, the owner, was worried about his son’s imaginary friend, a dinosaur named Dennis that the kid would not stop talking about. You can probably guess where that’s heading, but how the game reveals it, through Dalton’s own words and recordings, is creepy and really well done. By the time I got the floodlights back on, I had a lot of questions and I wanted every answer.
Verdict: Play It Now
Terrible Lizards is horror parkour I never saw coming, and I’m invested. The parkour is a blast, the suits are nightmare fuel and the mystery of Dennis has its hooks in me. It’s intense in all the right ways. It’s on Game Pass, so there’s nothing to think about here. Download it now and Play It Now.
This is not a review, so there’s no score here.
Screenshots captured by OnPoint 4 Gamers from gameplay. Featured image: OnPoint 4 Gamers.
