Far Cry® on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

A tropical paradise seethes with hidden evil in Far Cry®, a cunningly detailed action shooter that pushes the boundaries of combat to shocking new levels. Freelance mariner Jack Carver is cursing the day he ever came to this island.

Far Cry® is a fps, action and classic game developed by Crytek Studios and published by Ubisoft.
Released on April 01st 2008 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 10,057 reviews of which 8,237 were positive and 1,820 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Far Cry® into these genres:

FPS Action Classic Shooter Open World First-Person Singleplayer Difficult Stealth Multiplayer Adventure Atmospheric Story Rich Sci-fi Horror Sandbox Great Soundtrack Co-op Survival Zombies

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System requirements

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Windows

Minimum:

Supported OS: Windows® 2000/XP (only)
Processor: AMD Athlon™ 1 GHz or Pentium® III 1 GHz
Memory: 256 MB
Graphics: 64 MB DirectX® 9.0b-compliant graphics card (see supported list*)
Sound: DirectX 9.0b compliant PCI card (Sound Blaster Audigy series recommended)
DirectX: DirectX 9.0b or higher
Hard Disk Space: 4 GB
Multiplay: Broadband with 64 Kbps upstream (512 Kbps upstream to host 8 players)
Mouse/Keyboard: Windows compatible mouse and keyboard required

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March 2025

Far Cry is a game where you start as a normal guy and, within an hour, become a one-man extinction event. You’ll go from sneaking through the jungle to blowing up helicopters with a Molotov you found in a shack. The enemies have military training, but unfortunately, I have main character syndrome. The story? Some evil dictator wants to rule a tropical paradise. My response? Systematically wiping out his entire bloodline with a bow and arrow. The AI tries to stop me, but they have the intelligence of boiled potatoes—watching a guard investigate his friend’s corpse only to get stabbed in the exact same spot is peak comedy. Memorable moments include: Shot a guy in the foot, he went flying like I hit him with a truck. Threw a rock as a distraction, enemy stared at it for 45 seconds like it contained the meaning of life. Set myself on fire. Twice. Drove a jeep off a cliff, survived. The jeep didn’t. Liberated an outpost using only a hunting knife and pure spite. Would I recommend this game? Absolutely. It’s not just a shooter—it’s a wildlife documentary featuring explosions.

Feb. 2025

The first ever game I remember playing as a kid. The memories this game created for me will stay with me until my death. 10/10 with the bugs and all

Jan. 2025

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☑ DARK SOULS ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

June 2024

FC1 the enemy will engage you beyond the render distance if you're in the open. This is what happens when enemies are actually aware of how much of a threat the main character poses.

June 2024

I was led to believe that Far Cry was nothing more than a tech demo that got old by its second level. Led further to believe that there was nothing of value in this game that no game has done better before. I heartily disagree. Far Cry has some of the most unique combat I've ever played in an fps to this day. I don't play many linear fps games that use long-range engagement as its main gameplay loop. Even newer Far Cry games push you to push on bases aggressively. It wants you to take your time with it and not twitch-shoot, which is probably why the newer fans discredit it as much as they do. It's a novel take on the genre that I quite love. The setting is frankly mind-blowing still today. It gives of this dreamy and hazy quality with its verdant valleys and shining islands. But when the game is not focused on lush jungles and its core combat loop the design comes across as very amateurish. The one trick this game loves to do in half of its linear levels is to fill a room with high damage AoE enemies. The final level of the game is this bumped to 11 with 6 rocket launcher mutants and 4 marksman mutants. I cannot fathom why they decided that was a good idea, but its 20 years too late to change that. And yes I said mutants, to those unaware, Far Cry wasn't always bleak warzones or liberation vacations, this is a bog standard sci-fi fps story. It is carried however by its hammy performances and characters. Jack Carver and the mercenaries scattered through the island have one liners that deserve to be kept next to Resident Evil's in terms of cheese. It got a few laughs out of me. I insist that any fan of the series gives it a shot once. It is vastly different from its successors, yet it still deserves to be remembered by its boundary breaking ideas. To new Far Cry fans who picked it up on a bundle... ehhhh try FC3 out then come back to this one.

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9.99€

8.0

8,237

1,820

Online players

Developer

Crytek Studios

Publisher

Ubisoft

Release 01 Apr 2008

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