Home / Games / The Wild Eight
The Wild Eight
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“The Wild Eight is a surprisingly fun survival game with a great atmosphere, solid co-op gameplay, and a mysterious story that keeps you exploring. Definitely worth playing with friends.”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“Quite diverse gameplay. Alot of choices for characters and alot of free ability to roam around either solo or with friends. It can be sometimes challenging whenever encountering animals and you might have to figure out on how to avoid those.”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“WARNING: Abandoned game. This game is very broken, do not buy it. I purchased this game many years ago. I immediately found myself eager for more and thought it had a great top-down-view execution. It is very unfortunate that the devs abandoned this game and used it as a cash…”
— a player, Steam review · 28 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:21 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
HypeTrain Publisher Sale: Huge Discounts, New Reveals, and Updates!
Heya! The HypeTrain Digital Publisher Sale is live from October 7 to October 21, bringing you the biggest discounts across our entire catalog! Whether you’re hunting for your next epic journey or in t
You Have 24h to Grab Free Game During HypeTrain Summer Sale
Hi everyone! Missing the Summer Sale already? So are we, that's why HypeTrain is throwing its own: from July 15 to July 29, most of the publisher's games will be available at a nice discount. Don't mi
HypeTrain: Steam Next Fest + New Title Reveal!
Heya! We're aware that no one likes to read long off-topic updates, so let's get straight to the point: two of our games will be participating in the upcoming Steam Next Fest, and we'd love it if you'
Get 75% off The Wild Eight during HypeTrain Digital Publisher Sale
Autumn is a season of harvest, and games are no exception! Our publisher HypeTrain Digital decided to join the festivities and arrange a mega sale to be held from 8 to 12 September. Apart from the big
Grab The Wild Eight with a 70% discount during the Survival Game Festival
Hi everyone! We're delighted to announce that The Wild Eight takes part in the 2022 Steam Survival Games Festival, August 1-8. If you still don't own the game, you can now grab it with a solid 70% dis
Games like The Wild Eight
From our knowledge graph — ranked by shared traits, not a black box. Each card says why it's here.
Don't Starve Together
95.3% · 128,851 reviews
shares Open World Survival Craft, Crafting, Online Co Op, Survival Horror
Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition
75.4% · 8,377 reviews
shares Open World Survival Craft, Crafting, Online Co Op, Survival Horror
The Long Dark
87.1% · 46,444 reviews
shares Open World Survival Craft, Crafting, Survival Horror, Sandbox
Feel The Snow
85.3% · 1,506 reviews
shares Open World Survival Craft, Crafting, Online Co Op, Sandbox
Green Hell
85.0% · 33,685 reviews
shares Open World Survival Craft, Crafting, Online Co Op, Survival Horror
Terraria
97.5% · 728,104 reviews
shares Open World Survival Craft, Crafting, Online Co Op, Sandbox
Tinkerlands
88.8% · 841 reviews
shares Open World Survival Craft, Crafting, Online Co Op, Sandbox
Voidtrain
72.5% · 4,692 reviews
shares Open World Survival Craft, Crafting, Online Co Op, Sandbox
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation |
| Player tags | Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Multiplayer · Open World · Mystery · Co-op · Adventure · Crafting · Online Co-Op · Sandbox · Indie · RPG (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Captions available |
| Languages | English, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Turkish |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 25 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://thewildeight.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or higher 64bit Processor: Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.1 GHz or AMD FX-6300 @ 3.5 GHz or equivalent Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 or analogue with 2GB VRAM Storage: 2 GB available space