theHunter: Call of the Wild™
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 204,872
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Multiplayer
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 24.6h
- To 100%
- 172h 7.0x the story
- Achievements
- 160
Players and genre
- Online
- 4,554 now
- Recent reviews
- 87% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
87% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Its score puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, theHunter Classic (scores 6) and Way of the Hunter ($29.99, scores 55), are both worse buys on this math.
It is still busy. 4.6K players were online when we last checked, on Oct 28, 20:45 UTC, across 28 days of weekly checks.
More about theHunter: Call of the Wild™
Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 9,393 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 24.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 172, 7.0 times as much.
204,872 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I really like this game. The core "loop" of the game is to hunt and shoot wildlife to gain experience and money to unlock more gear/abilities to hunt more efficiently. It's got a good variety in how you actually approach that goal, and a lot of the DLCs add novel and challenging ways to accomplish that. You're encouraged to visit different areas/environments within different reserves by completing missions given to...
2 more reviews
honestly a really fun game but leveling takes awhile as well as the actual hunting so be prepared to dedicate some time to just walking
Wake up Walk out the door Find tracks Follow tracks find animal aim at animal drop animal collect reward
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Discover an authentic hunting game in a dynamic open world that reacts to your every move. Track prey, face unscripted encounters, and master the hunt alone or with friends.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 660 / ATI HD7870 - 1GB VRAM, 140 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
theHunter: Call of the Wild™ scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/518790/thehunter-call-of-the-wildReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 4. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.