I wish that there was a tutorial, the mechanics were not clear at first, to start I mostly tried clicking on every option that I could and seeing where that took me. I did eventually figure out the game, but it took me a while to fully understand things. I wish that you had some tooltips to quickly explain some of the UI works.
I was unsure how to interact with dinos that I came across which were friendly. I could click and drag on their image, but I could not figure out where to drop them. I figured it out when I clicked on one of the dinos without dragging them and got an interaction. It was not clear that I could do that, and being able to drag them around lead me to thinking that I needed to drag them somewhere. My one guess for why I can drag them, would be combat, but it looks like they are different images for the combat and the map, so... I dunno. I did not look at the hints sections in your page before, or while playing the game.
A couple of times I would get the cave event and it would say that one of my members who had been taken out in combat found the cave.
I multi-clicked on the attack button in a combat when I had one dino left, I won the combat, but it showed all of my dinos as being taken out.
I feel like moving to different areas without doing anything should increase the chance of next attack, as you can just collect dinos, then move on until you are home.
I feel like you should not be able to get the same zone/area twice in a row.
I like the way you give an indication that there is a friendly dino in the image, while putting them in spots that might not be obvious initially.
The combat feels a little too balanced towards the opponent, it was quite difficult to get through a combat without losing dinos.
It would be nice if there were more zones, as currently it can feel like you are going in circles on your way home.
I like this game. The art is nice, I really like the background images. I think that adding a tutorial would help quite a bit with understanding how to play the game.
-R