theHunter: Call of the Wild™ on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Discover an atmospheric hunting game like no other in this realistic, stunning open world – regularly updated in collaboration with the community. Immerse yourself in the single player campaign, or share the ultimate hunting experience with friends.

theHunter: Call of the Wild™ is a hunting, open world and multiplayer game developed by Expansive Worlds and published by Avalanche Studios.
Released on February 16th 2017 is available only on Windows in 10 languages: English, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Polish, Simplified Chinese and Japanese.

It has received 175,871 reviews of which 156,038 were positive and 19,833 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: 64bit OS - Windows 7
  • Processor: Intel i3-4170
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 660 / ATI HD7870 - 1GB VRAM
  • Storage: 60 GB available space

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March 2025
I shot an animal 8 times and followed its blood trail long enough to cover a small country... but game pretty and lets me stalk something that's not my neighbor so I'd say its a good trade off.
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Dec. 2024
My husband played this game before I did. He got really into it, and I always wondered why he enjoyed playing it so much and for so long. I would say all the time "it's just a hunting game". Now that's a running joke for us. At the time of this review Im nearing 700 hours in this "just a hunting game". I eventually broke down and got it on a good sale one day so that I could play multiplayer with my husband and spend time with him. I figured even if I didn't like it I got it on a sale so no biggie. I ended up falling in love with it. It's not my type of game at all, yet somehow it has become my most played game on Steam. Most of the maps are absolutely stunning, its incredibly realistic, the animals are vast and beautiful. Its immersive, challenging yet relaxing. Unfortunately you have to buy most of the maps as dlcs, and I usually recommend waiting until a sale and snatching them up, they arent too terribly expensive and so worth it. If youre unsure if you like a map, or dont want to buy one yet, you can go on a multiplayer server and test it out. The stories can be fun, there is plenty of areas to explore and tons of steam achievements. Being able to play in multiple different ways is enjoyable, I can play for half an hour or 10 hours straight. It's just incredible in my opinion. The downsides are sometimes glitches happen, you have to buy a lot of stuff (guns, lodges, rtvs, dogs, etc) separately, but with sales and how much I enjoy the game, they are minor cons.
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Nov. 2024
Very fun game if you like to hunt but it's completely outrageous that all the maps and cool content are sold piecemeal.
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Sept. 2024
---{ 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
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May 2024
Played this game for years, great game, says incompatible w/ steam deck but thats false it works amazingly just an fyi
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theHunter: Call of the Wild™
8.8
156,038
19,833
Online players
2,526
Developer
Expansive Worlds
Publisher
Avalanche Studios
Release 16 Feb 2017
Platforms