theHunter Classic Reviews

First of all i dont want to talk about what this game has done right wait it did nothing right you cant just you cant go in the water to hunter 99% of the animals you have to pay REAL money for it you have to buy guns with REAL money and you have to buy ammo wit REAL money its just awful and to start a multiplayer game you need to have premium which is jut dumb there are like 3 animals that you can hunt without buying there licences not to mention you have to buy callers with REAL money to get the animals to get close to you and you walk around for half an hour not even seeing an animal and when you do find and animal you cant shoot it unless you have the licenses there is ingame money but all you can buy with it scent eliminators that do like nothing you also have to buy dogs with REAL money and you have to buy duck decoys with you guessed it REAL money if i were you dont waist your time downloading the game and if you do download the game dont buy anything in the game with real money its just a wast

very outdated look but good idea i recommend you buy the newer version theHunter call of the wild much better game

Ok. I have now hit around the 100 hour mark in this game and its time to review it. Does this game deserve 40% negative review? short answer: NO. Long answer: Still no, but I understand why its so low. This game is advertized as a "free to play" game. This is sadly not the case. This is a pay to play Hunting simulator. And let me tell you, this is the single best hunting game ever made. Hands down the most fun and imersive hunting experience I have ever had the pleasure to enjoy. I love this game and always will. TheHunter classic will be a game I come back to again and again for two reasons. 1) Like I said above this game gets hunting right. From big game to small the team at EW has done an amazing job creating beutifull hunting reserves inhabited by great looking and beliveable animals to hunt. Its a blast to shoot bucks and ducks alike. 2) I have spent too much money not to get the most out of this game. I think I am sitting at about a $250 bill when it is all said and done. From guns, blinds, lures, callers, bait stations, tents and any hunting equipment you could think of I have bought something of it. But here is why this game is sitting at 40% negative on steam review. The majority of reviews here are from people who downloaded the game, played for a hour and quit and uninstalled when they saw what is free in the game. Which is not very much. You can always hunt for free with licences for Whitetail deer, all the rabbits and pheasant's. They also give you the means to hunt all of these animals. For free equipment you get the .243 bolt action rifle, 12ga single shot shotgun (not free when I started years ago by the way, bonus for new players now!) and unlimited free ammo for both guns. You also get binoculars, deer bleet caller and a camera to take pics with. You as a free user can also join other hosts multiplayer games but you yourself can't host a game without membership. You can complete missions for specific animals and earn in-game money to buy consumables with. You cant get any weapons with the mission money. You can however earn the premium curency by entering and winning competitions (you are unlikely to win so I dont really count this). By now many people will already not want to bother trying this game if you have read this far. Try it anyways. Trust me here you cant get some really fun hunting done with what you have a free user. Its basicly a demo so why not give it a try and see if you like it. And if you do like the game then buy a membership package. I recomend the $54 one that gives you a year of licences to hunt all animals and a bunch of new weapons and equipment to get you a really good start. With that package you dont really need to buy anything else to get the full experience out of the game. Here are some tips to get free stuff in game (dont say the devs never gave you anything). By verifying your email you get a free rifle. Do that in your account info in the launcher. Aslo if you send a referal link to a friend (find that in the launcher sidebar) and they make a TheHunter account you get a ground blind free and your friend gets premium curency and some free equipment. So get a friend to try with you, and if they decide to buy a membership package (you will get the following rewards depending on what package they buy) you get a premium engraved .308 rifle, engraved deer "grunt" caller and a two person tree stand all for free. Also in steam there is a free dlc equipment package that gives you a bunch of consumables for no cost.

The undisputed Greatest Open World game of all time. Take a game like the witcher for example. There's tons of characters to meet, secrets to uncover, monsters to kill, stories to engage in, and beautful locations to visit. But that's all superficial when you compare it to the greatness that is thehunter. In thehunter, I walked 10 miles and found deer poop. Nice.

I wanted to come back to this game but after remembering i couldnt do much w/o continuously spending money, i decided to give up on it. If this game had a one-time payment and then i could play with no restrictions (Hell i would even still pay for it if i could play with MOST of the restrictions gone) then i would definitely pay the one time fee and enjoy this game. Otherwise, im moving on with my money

this is a very difficult game to recommend to anyone, especially if they aren't inherently interested in hunting games, and it's all because of how aggressive it is at telling you it wants your money. to actually play it and have the full experience you have to constantly pay it for features you would expect the free version to already have. it's ridiculous to see 32 species of animals and only be able to hunt 3 of them, and then find out that you have to pay real money for rifles, ammo, all the different kinds of permits... i decided i had enough when i saw that even bait and calls cost real money. while the latter could be reused, the former is a consumable and it makes zero sense to make it unavailable to people that don't want to pay a monthly subscription for playing an essentially singleplayer videogame this way of implementing microtransactions (can they even be called micro if you transact sums that rival some AAA titles' prices?) is outrageous and predatory. games need money to be made and maintained, yes, but, in my opinion, simply adding "shortcut" purchases and some "premium" vanity items could've easily funded it too. it sucks because the base game is actually fun. the way the guns reload, the way you use the mating calls, that moment you catch movement in the brush... all the while you're surrounded by a forest that, although rendered at a very low resolution, looks gorgeous. also, the map is enormous, though the slow walking speed might be the main culprit for making it feel so big. the only reason why i could recommend this game is if you just want to try and see if you like hunting sims at all. since it's still technically free, all you will lose is your time (and based on the fact that you read some random guy's review of game called "theHunter", you clearly don't value it much). if you do end up liking it - they have a one-time purchase sequel named "call of the wild", but honestly, with how aggressive its dlcs are (and how much stupider its ai felt like to me), I'm not sure I'd recommend it either.

That's not free-to-play at all! I'd rather buy full game and play it normally than play this paywall crаp. Yes, you have to pay every month for the game that isn't worth it. Game is repetitive and even if you pay you still would have 2 weapons. There is new theHunter, but anyway it's not worth that much.

You can't buy anything with the in game money so you'll have to pay real money for all the guns and equipment.

I want to love this game. Which I do enjoy it alot, but what it comes down to is what everyone else says, PAYWALLS. When you start you get 3 days of unlimited tags for any animal which sounds great right? The catch is that you only get two guns, sure the 12 Gauge is permitted to use on A LOT more animals than the .243 they give you as well but once the three days is up don't expect to be able to enjoy the game until you spend $3.99 on some game time. But wait there's more! You still only have the two guns, one blind, one bottle of decent scent remover, and one call that only works for deer. So in other words expect to spend a ton of money on this game if you really want to play it. It's not my kind of game for that exact reason. Other than the paywalls this game is amazing. If they were to remove the paywalls and make you pay $30 for the game I'd be all in for sure but there's no way I'm playing any more of this. Hopefully the new one will not have paywalls but I'm not holding my breath.

Want to start the game? Yes, you can Want to shoot some animals? Pay us and you can Want a new weapon? Pay us and you will have one Want to do anything? Pay us a lot and you can do everything