Way of the Hunter
Fair · Shooter · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.49. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 29.6h
- Value
- $0.25/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 960 / Radeon R9 380, 19 GB of storage. Windows only.
Become the new owner of a hunting lodge nestled among gorgeous habitats and rich animal populations. Explore vast open world environments and hunt with a premium selection of firearms. Enjoy the perfect hunt on your own or with friends in co-op.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
January 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 31 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 31 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, theHunter: Call of the Wild™ (free, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Hunting Simulator 2 ($39.99, scores 15).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 31 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 198 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 865 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
63% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
136 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 06:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
In an attempt to make a more "realistic" hunting game, THQ Nordic have instead managed to give these animals perceptive abilities that would rival Superman himself, even on the casual difficulties. I've seen deer in the wild before, they do not instantly flee for their lives the second you are in the same ZIP code as them. It turns what should have been a slow-paced simulation game into an exercise in futility...
i think this game had honestly so much potential but the awful release just killed it. i know my laptop isnt exactly great in 2026 standards but it can still run death stranding at near maximum graphics so there isnt much excuse why the performance is genuinely awful on low to medium graphical settings. id say it took at least 2 hrs to get settings that make my laptop run consistently at 80fps and even at the...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Way of the Hunter scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1288320/way-of-the-hunterReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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