A selection of hunting simulations on PC, which includes both professional games for true connoisseurs of the genre, and their simpler, arcade versions. Also on the list are hunting simulators for various fantastic creatures and games about hunting with an unusual setting.
Let’s be honest – hunting simulators are not the most popular and very specific games on PC. Most gamers are waiting for the most authentic transfer of the hunting process, the diversity of different kinds of game and a rich arsenal of hunting weapons, and the graphics and the story is a secondary matter, although, of course, also desirable.
HUNTING ONLINE
Modest visually, but quite fascinating browser game, which will offer you to visit five continents and hunt a variety of game – from ducks and foxes to bears. More than 40 upgradable weapons are available, and the hunting process is not limited to just shooting – you will set baits and traps, arrange ambushes and drive the animals. All this with the ability to compete with other players from around the world, where the hunter who climbs to the top of the rankings, gets a lot of useful benefits.
THEHUNTER: CALL OF THE WILD
With a realistic game set in the wild, an abundance of game and a wide variety of weapons and implements, this is the best game simulator on our list. theHunter: Call of the Wild provides the player with a large open world with a lot of tasks and interesting objects: logging sites, observation positions, stakeouts and hunting bases that allow you to move quickly around the map.
There is also a multiplayer mode and an achievement system. All in all, Call of the Wild is the best game of the genre, in which Expansive Worlds implemented all its years of experience.
DEPTH HUNTER 2: DEEP DIVE
The Biart Company LLC game in which you will be able to feel all the delights of underwater hunting! A wonderful underwater world awaits you here, divided into three unique zones and filled with bizarre, and sometimes dangerous, life forms.
There are also 25 unusual missions where, in addition to extreme harpoon fishing, you can try your hand at being an underwater photographer and sunken treasure hunter.
MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
It would seem that what does a role-playing action game with a fantasy setting and a traditional hunting simulator have in common? Generally, nothing, but Monster Hunter: World is inhabited by gigantic ferocious monsters that look like prehistoric dinosaurs. And the main character here is just busy hunting them, killing or catching them, depending on the task. And often does not do it alone, but in the company of other hunters.
CABELAS BIG GAME HUNTER: PRO HUNTS
One of the most hardcore simulator hunts in our list, designed for true connoisseurs of virtual hunting for big game (although the small game here is present in decent numbers). The developers promise that Cabela’s Big Game Hunter: Pro Hunts can even prepare us for real hunting.
Just like in reality, before you shoot your prey you have to find and lure it: carefully study the tracks, get acquainted with the area and the habits of the tracked animal, choose the right (leeward) side of approach, the right bait and so on. There are a lot of nuances. But that is what draws the attention of devoted hunting fans to Cabela’s Big Game Hunter.
CARNIVORES: DINOSAUR HUNTER REBORN
The best dinosaur hunting simulator that allows you to fully experience the breathtaking danger of hunting ancient giant lizards. Despite the fantastic setting, the hunting process is very realistic, and the gameplay includes numerous elements of survival.
All the action takes place in the huge open world, consisting of many ecosystems and differing by strikingly beautiful graphics. The only disadvantage is that there is no multiplayer. So, those who want to hunt ancient monsters may pay attention to theHunter: Primal – simulator of dinosaur hunting with multiplayer.
LEGENDARY HUNTER VR
Now is the time for the most realistic VR hunting! Legendary Hunter VR is a duck hunting simulator from LastnOni, made in the spirit of the iconic Duck Hunt for the NES.
In addition to shooting waterfowl, the player will have to fight off annoying bees and angry crows, as well as fighting wolves and crocodiles. As you see, in Legendary Hunter there are some elements of survival, and the whole point is to stay as long as possible on the uninhabited island (there is a dynamic change of day and night and random weather phenomena).
HUNTING UNLIMITED SERIES
One of the oldest series of games about hunting in our list, we did not dare to choose the best among them. The fact is that almost all parts of Hunting Unlimited are good quality and interesting, but it is spoiled by outdated graphics.
There is a large number of hunting zones, weapons and game, there is even a built-in mission editor. A classic among hunting simulators.