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theHunter: Primal

Hunt - Explore - SurviveThe most realistic prehistoric survival game ever created. Featuring a huge Cretaceous environment populated by horrifying dinosaur all-stars, such as T-Rex, Triceratops, Utahraptor, Velociraptor and Quetzalcoatlus.

Released Mar 31, 2015 Developer Expansive Worlds, Avalanche Studios Platforms Windows DinosaursSurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerHunting
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

57.8%positive4,067 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“great hunting game”

— a player, Steam review · 43 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“For some reason I can review this game even tho I don't own it but my only regret is that I never got to buy this when it was still available”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Not recommended · 1 found this helpful

“one of the worst games I ever pleayed, how do I even have this game what even is this and why is it off listed what the meow 😭😭”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
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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.

70achievements
11.5%median completion
1.2%rarest: Bloodbath
83.5% of players 74.6% of players 71.7% of players 58.6% of players 55.9% of players 54.1% of players 47.4% of players 45.3% of players 42.4% of players 42.2% of players 38.4% of players 34.9% of players 33.3% of players 32.4% of players 31.9% of players 24.6% of players 23.8% of players 23.5% of players 23.5% of players 22.5% of players 21.1% of players 21.1% of players 20.9% of players 20.2% of players 17.7% of players 17.0% of players 16.5% of players 16.4% of players 16.2% of players 16.0% of players 14.5% of players 13.8% of players 13.6% of players 13.4% of players 12.8% of players 11.5% of players 9.9% of players 9.2% of players 9.1% of players 9.1% of players 8.9% of players 8.5% of players 8.4% of players 7.8% of players 7.7% of players 7.2% of players 7.1% of players 6.7% of players 6.3% of players 6.2% of players 5.8% of players 5.5% of players 5.1% of players 5.1% of players 4.9% of players 4.7% of players 4.2% of players 3.8% of players 3.5% of players 3.4% of players 83.5% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
83.5%Happens to the best of us — Hidden achievement
74.6%This does not even fill my inventory — Open 5 containers
71.7%Out for a stroll — Travel 15 kilometers
Rarest badges of honor
1.2%Bloodbath — Harvest 25 other players
1.3%Serial killer — Harvest 10 other players
1.6%Heavyweight T-rex — Harvest a Tyrannosaurus rex with a score over 2225

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.

Freecurrent · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
Freelowest since tracking began2026-07-11

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Feb 20, 2017
Game Update 20th of February

Hello Hunters, After gathering information and logs from you we have now released a patch to address the level and item reset issue. We hope that this will now be stable for all players and you will n

Jan 10, 2017
Game Update No. 2 January 10th 2017

Hello Hunters, we have worked on an additional patch to address 2 further issues: - Fixes 'first time sync' of save game data. If you played on the patch version from earlier today your save game data

Jan 10, 2017
Game Update January 10th 2017

Hello Hunters, A short while ago we mentioned that we were working on performance improvements for theHunter: Primal. Today I am happy to announce that we have released a patch that is going to perman

Oct 06, 2016
Game Update 6th October

Hi Primal hunters, The patch with some long-awaited fixes is finally here! We are really sorry we kept you waiting, but it took us longer to find and solve the problems than we had expected. The patch

Jan 20, 2016
Game Update 20th January 2016

Features Implemented missing sound for Utahraptors, T-Rex, T-Rex Primal, Triceratops and Velociraptors Bug fixes Fixed issue with T-Rex Primal Achievements Fixed issue with T-Rex Primal Leaderboards F

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresAction, Adventure, Simulation
Player tagsDinosaurs · Survival · Open World · Multiplayer · Hunting · Adventure · Action · Simulation · Co-op · Singleplayer · First-Person · FPS (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Steam Achievements · Stats · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Romanian, Swedish, Russian *
Achievements70
Estimated owners100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy)
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows ® 8/7/Vista/XP Processor: Intel 3 GHz or AMD Dual Core Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVidia GeForce 8800, ATI/AMD Radeon HD 2400 (NVidia GeForce 8800, ATI/AMD Radeon HD 2400) DirectX: Version 9.0 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 3 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX Compatible