Games Like theHunter: Call of the Wild™

Become the new owner of a hunting lodge nestled among gorgeous habitats and rich animal populations. Explore vast open world environments and hunt with a premium selection of firearms. Enjoy the perfect hunt on your own or with friends in co-op.

Why similar: Hunting 39.6% ★, Nature 7.2%, FPS 7%, Sports 6.8%, Open World 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest modern alternative, built around realistic animal behavior, long-range shooting, tracking, and expansive natural reserves.

The most realistic hunting experience awaits. Explore 12 reserves and hunt 45 unique species, ranging from waterfowl to big game. Over 100 weapons from state-of-the art rifles to bows. Customize your load-out with stands, blinds and dogs. Play alone or in multiplayer with up to 7 friends.

Why similar: Hunting 54.9% ★, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Co-op 3.6%, Survival 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: As the earlier game in the same franchise, it offers similarly detailed hunting systems, patient stalking, and multiplayer-focused wildlife reserves.

With your hunting dog by your side, explore the Texan desert and forests of Colorado and Europe as you track down 33 animal species. Choose your gear from over 160 official weapons, accessories and clothing items (including Browning, Winchester and Bushnell).

Why similar: Hunting 39.2% ★, Open World 10.2%, Nature 8.8%, Sports 8.1%, Stealth 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers structured hunts, realistic equipment, animal tracking, and large outdoor environments with a similarly sim-leaning approach.

The Angler is an open world fishing game that can be played solo or with friends. Discover and catch a wide variety of unique fish species, from common to rare, on your journey to become a master angler.

Why similar: Hunting 32.2% ★, Open World 9.8%, Nature 9.7%, Sports 7.4%, Walking Simulator 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: From the same universe and developer, it shares the relaxing open-world nature vibe and slow, immersive outdoor progression even though it centers on fishing.

Dive into intense dinosaur hunting adventures with your friends. Complete hunting contracts for Preton Corporation. Gather rewards, improve your equipment and become a master hunter. Are you the hunter or the hunted?

Why similar: Hunting 35.5% ★, Stealth 9.3%, Open World 9.2%, FPS 7.1%, Walking Simulator 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the careful spotting, stalking, and shooting rhythm of a hunting sim, just with dinosaurs instead of real wildlife.

Ok Scout, it's time to show us what you’re made of-break free from your city life and live like a real outdoorsman. The wilderness isn’t for the faint of heart, but if you work hard, learn how to use the environment and be one with nature, you too can become a Master Outdoorsman.

Why similar: Hunting 34.9% ★, Open World 16.5%, Survival 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Walking Simulator 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its open wilderness survival, hunting, and tranquil outdoors exploration make it a strong fit for players who love the seed game's nature-heavy pacing.

Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.

Why similar: Open World 39.5%, Multiplayer 19%, Realistic 14.3%, Shooter 9.2%, Sandbox 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its richly detailed wilderness, animal behaviors, tracking, and satisfying hunting systems make it one of the best non-sim alternatives.

The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.

Why similar: Hunting 47.4% ★, Open World 20.7%, Survival 11.4%, Stealth 7.5%, FPS 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is much more action-driven, but its open-world hunting, animal encounters, and immersive natural setting scratch a similar wilderness itch.

Live the life of a wild wolf in a realistic ecological simulation set in Yellowstone National Park.

Why similar: Hunting 41.1% ★, Open World 11.4%, Nature 10.8%, Survival 7.6%, Immersive Sim 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy animal behavior and roaming realistic ecosystems, this offers a surprisingly deep wildlife sim in a large open world.

Builder. Farmer. Hunter. Trader. Ranching certainly isn’t your average job. Think you have the skills to turn your family’s rundown homestead into the most prosperous ranch in the valley? Then it’s time to head out into the wilderness in this captivating single and multiplayer open-world simulator.

Why similar: Hunting 35.6% ★, Open World 10.3%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: The hunting is lighter, but the open rural setting, co-op play, and mix of roaming woods and stalking animals fit well.

You are a Bigfoot hunter with an important mission: to put an end to rumours once and for all and prove to yourself that Bigfoot is not just a myth or an invention of the mind...

Why similar: Multiplayer 19.4%, Online Co-Op 18.4%, Open World 17.9%, Co-op 15.6%, FPS 14%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op wilderness stalking, listening for signs, and hunting through large forests echo the suspenseful tracking side of theHunter.

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Multiplayer 19.7%, Survival 19%, Open World 17.7%, Online Co-Op 16.4%, Co-op 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its realistic jungle survival, careful movement, and hunting for food create a grounded, high-tension take on living off the land.

Live as your favourite african animal, choose between being a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore, predator or prey. In this multiplayer ecosystem, with a realistic open world, choose to become a lion, a elephant or even a swift gazelle! But remember, the savannahs law is to survive at any cost!

Why similar: Hunting 38.4% ★, Nature 10.7%, Open World 9.7%, Walking Simulator 7.6%, Survival 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on wildlife, open environments, and surviving through hunting and exploration makes it a natural adjacent pick.

A heavy metal horror game where you hunt monsters from folklore in an open world. Discover enhanced sense powers, elemental arrows, magic and journals from people who came before you. Almost all of the UI exists in the world itself. Created by one of the developers of Skyrim and Fallout.

Why similar: Hunting 44.9% ★, Stealth 12.7%, Open World 11.7%, FPS 8.1%, Immersive Sim 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes first-person tracking, environmental clues, stealthy approach, and patient bow hunting in a lonely open world.

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Open World 32.1%, Survival 31.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, First-Person 8%, Walking Simulator 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It trades trophy hunting for survival hunting, but its quiet first-person wilderness immersion and respect for nature feel very close.

Discover the open world of Hope County, Montana, besieged by a fanatical doomsday cult. Dive into the action solo or two-player co-op in the story campaign, use a vast arsenal of weapons and allies, and free Hope County from Joseph Seed and his cult.

Why similar: Hunting 31.3% ★, Open World 12.3%, Stealth 9.2%, Nature 8.1%, FPS 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its Montana setting, open-country roaming, and robust animal hunting make it a good pick if you want a more action-heavy version of the same fantasy.

Fishing Planet® is a free-to-play and highly realistic first-person online multiplayer fishing simulator. Developed by avid fishing enthusiasts to bring you the full thrill of actual angling on your PC.

Why similar: Multiplayer 22.4%, Sports 13.5%, Open World 12.8%, Co-op 10%, Realistic 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: If what you love most is the patient, realistic, outdoors-sim side of theHunter, this is one of the best fishing equivalents on Steam.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Open World 18.2%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Co-op 13.4%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 12%

Why You'll Like It: Hunting is only one part of it, but the grounded wilderness exploration and slow, immersive life-in-nature pacing are a strong match.

Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.

Why similar: Open World 21.5%, FPS 15%, Multiplayer 14%, Co-op 13.7%, Survival 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: While you hunt machines instead of animals, its lonely open landscapes, stealthy tracking, and co-op exploration feel surprisingly similar.

Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.

Why similar: Hunting 42.7% ★, Open World 14.7%, Survival 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9%, FPS 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Beneath the survival sandbox, it offers a large realistic map, hunting systems, and a slower, more methodical outdoors experience than most shooters.

Russian Fishing 4 is a fishing simulator with RPG elements. There is no story line and the whole process is based on the concept of an open, free to roam and free to play game.

Why similar: Multiplayer 16.7%, Nature 16.2%, Sports 11.1%, Open World 10.6%, Immersive Sim 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides the same kind of slow, skill-based, nature-focused simulation appeal, just with rods and lakes instead of rifles and reserves.

Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.

Why similar: Hunting 40.3% ★, Open World 15.3%, Survival 11.5%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Realistic 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is less of a hunting sim and more of an animal survival sim, but it delivers emergent stalking and prey-predator tension in large natural maps.

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Open World 26.2%, Survival 19.9%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Co-op 16.4%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its tone is far darker, but the first-person forest traversal, hunting, and co-op wilderness survival can appeal to players who love immersive outdoor spaces.

Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.

Why similar: Open World 21.6%, Survival 19.3%, Sandbox 15.8%, Realistic 13.6%, Immersive Sim 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers first-person survival, hunting, and exploration in a beautiful outdoor world where reading the environment matters.

Feel the thrill of the hunt and keep an eye out for the wild and wonderous species that are roaming the Canadian wilderness.

Why similar: Hunting 43.4% ★, FPS 9.1%, Multiplayer 6.6%, Immersive Sim 6.5%, Simulation 6.3%

Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.

Why similar: Open World 30.1%, Survival 21.4%, Sandbox 17.2%, Relaxing 15.6%, First-Person 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Though more peaceful and survival-focused, it captures the serene forest immersion and slow-paced connection to nature that make theHunter special.

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World 24.4%, Survival 22.7%, Multiplayer 19.4%, Sandbox 9.9%, Co-op 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a harsher survival spin on wilderness hunting, with careful tracking, crafting, and solo or co-op play in a natural setting.

A realistic waterfowl hunting simulator set in the wild landscapes of Yakutia. Hunt ducks and grouse with birds driven by realistic AI instincts: flocking, feeding, hiding, and reacting to the environment. Use decoys, calls, wind conditions, and strategy. Created by hunters for hunters.

Why similar: Hunting 47.9% ★, Nature 8%, Stealth 8%, Realistic 5.9%, Walking Simulator 5.6%

MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t

Why similar: Open World 38%, Survival 34.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, FPS 6%, First-Person 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is another slower-paced first-person survival game where scavenging, hunting, and moving carefully through the environment are central.

Bored of waiting for a bite? Would you like to catch some fish? You're lucky - in Ultimate Fishing Simulator, fish bite like crazy! Spinning, float fishing, ground fishing, and more! Comprehensive fishing simulator that allows using various techniques, in different places around the world!

Why similar: Nature 14.1%, Sports 13.9%, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Immersive Sim 9.9%

Fish around the globe using float, bottom, spinning, or casting gear, and catch over 60 realistic fish species. Play solo or online in normal, realistic, or sandbox mode! Explore stunning locations, switch to an underwater cam, and fill your trophy room!

Why similar: Sports 15.5%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Realistic 11.4%, Walking Simulator 10.6%, Nature 10.4%

Create a team with up to 3 friends in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands and enjoy the ultimate military shooter experience set in a massive, dangerous, and responsive open world.

Why similar: Open World 25.5%, Stealth 17%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Co-op 10.8%, Shooter 9.9%

Hunt wild animals across vast landscapes in an action-packed hunting FPS. Track your target, line up the perfect shot, and inspect every hit on detailed animal models.

Why similar: Hunting 42.2% ★, Open World 10.8%, Nature 9.4%, FPS 8.5%, Stealth 6.3%

Farming Simulator 25 invites you to join the rewarding farm life, single-handedly or cooperatively in multiplayer. This Farm is Your Farm!

Why similar: Multiplayer 17.6%, Realistic 15%, Nature 14.7%, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Online Co-Op 12.4%

Create your farm and let the good times grow! Harvest crops, tend to animals, manage productions, and take on seasonal challenges.

Why similar: Open World 14.2%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Co-op 13.9%, Nature 13%, Sandbox 11.5%

The best-selling franchise takes a giant leap forward with a complete overhaul of the graphics engine, offering the most striking and immersive visuals and effects, along with the deepest and most complete farming experience ever.

Why similar: Open World 21%, Multiplayer 20.2%, Realistic 13.9%, Simulation 13.9%, Co-op 11%

Fishing Sim World: Pro Tour features an authentic career mode where you work your way up to an elite angler competing against over 100 of the best anglers in the world across Bass, Carp and Predator fishing whilst unlocking sponsorship opportunities, gaining career earnings and social media followers as you go.

Why similar: Sports 24.4%, Multiplayer 19.4%, Simulation 15.3%, Realistic 15.3%, Hunting 12.3% ★

The Fisherman – Fishing Planet is for all fans of nature and sport fishing! This simulation, made by and for fishing enthusiasts, recreates all the finer details of the art of fishing with unrivalled authenticity.

Why similar: Nature 17.6%, Open World 15.2%, Sports 14.5%, Co-op 11.4%, Multiplayer 11.2%

LIVE THE LIFE OF A WILD WOLF! As a two-year-old gray wolf in Yellowstone National Park, hunt elk and moose, find a mate, and then establish a territory and raise your pups.

Why similar: Hunting 42.8% ★, Nature 11.7%, Multiplayer 9%, Survival 8.8%, Co-op 7.6%

Fisher Online - online wild fishing simulator. Forget about licenses and catch rates. Choose bait or lures and catch fish in Europe and Russia.

Why similar: Sandbox 19.1%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Realistic 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Relaxing 9.7%

Euro Fishing immerses you deep into the adrenaline-packed action, fun and beauty of Europe’s most famous lakes. Master your rod, line and tactics, and refine your technique to become a top angler. This is the closest you can get to real fishing from the comfort of your own couch.

Why similar: Hunting 44.1% ★, Sports 13.5%, Open World 11.8%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Realistic 6.8%

Virtual Hunter brings realistic hunting to virtual reality. Pack your gear and put your hunting skills and tactics to the test in the open wilderness.

Why similar: Hunting 36.9% ★, Open World 8.8%, Sports 7.9%, Nature 6.9%, Online Co-Op 6.4%

Ride a massive open world across the Alps, where the powder is always fresh and the run never ends. Defy and master the mountain alone or with friends on skis, wingsuits, snowboards and paragliders. Record and share your best stunts.

Why similar: Sports 31%, Open World 29.5%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Co-op 5.5%, Simulation 5.4%

Hunt Deer that act and react differently depending on the time of the season, weather and rut stage. Bucks very in size and you will be able to hunt monster bucks that have potential to score well over 200 inches. Each successful hunt gains you EXP and you can purchase / upgrade gear and firearms.

Why similar: Hunting 35.8% ★, Open World 16.6%, Simulation 14.5%, Realistic 12.6%, Sports 11.7%

Get ready for the next-generation off-road experience! Drive powerful vehicles and overcome extreme open environments to complete dozens of challenging missions solo or with up to 3 friends!

Why similar: Open World 19.4%, Multiplayer 16.5%, Sandbox 13.7%, Nature 13.3%, Realistic 12%

Become the ultimate assassin in the most realistic modern warfare sniping game available. Engage in an immersive single-player campaign across large, open-ended maps. Tactical thinking, stealth approach and precision in execution of long shots required.

Why similar: Stealth 26%, FPS 17.3%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Open World 12.9%, Shooter 11.3%

Finnish Cottage Simulator is the ultimate cottage experience. Relax and enjoy the Finnish summer nature, go to the sauna, get drunk, grill food or play games with others!

Why similar: Open World 18.9%, Online Co-Op 15.9%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Realistic 11.3%, Sandbox 9.5%

Are you falling asleep with a rod? Never again! Professional Fishing will never let you fall asleep! Play an amazing fishing simulator and feel like a real angler! Create your own fishing club and compete with others!

Why similar: Multiplayer 23.8%, Open World 20.7%, Sports 13.9%, Simulation 11.9%, Online Co-Op 10.3%

Take on the role of a modern farmer in Farming Simulator 17! Explore farming possibilities in a new North American environment. Drive over 250 farming vehicles and equipment from over 75 manufacturers, including new brands such as Challenger, Fendt, Valtra or Massey Ferguson.

Why similar: Open World 22.4%, Multiplayer 20.8%, Simulation 14.6%, Realistic 13%, Online Co-Op 8.9%

Deer Hunting Camp allows you to create your own private deer habitat which can be traded with friends! Once done creating, managing, and scouting your property you will be challenged with early fall bow hunting, late fall black powder hunting, and winter rifle hunting.

Why similar: Hunting 57% ★, FPS 12.6%, Open World 12.4%, Shooter 6.4%, Simulation 6.1%

Welcome to the new generation of Farming Simulator!With a brand new graphics and physics engine, Farming Simulator 15 offers an immense open world, filled with details and visual effects transporting the Farming Simulator franchise to a new era.

Why similar: Open World 21.4%, Multiplayer 20.1%, Simulation 17.4%, Co-op 10.4%, Realistic 9.9%

Welcome to a new world! In Monster Hunter: World, the latest installment in the series, you can enjoy the ultimate hunting experience, using everything at your disposal to hunt monsters in a new world teeming with surprises and excitement.

Why similar: Co-op 33.8%, Open World 33.5%, Multiplayer 32.8%

MudRunner is the ultimate off-road experience putting the players in the driver seat and dares them to take charge of incredible all-terrain vehicles, venturing across extreme Siberian landscapes with only a map and compass as guides!

Why similar: Multiplayer 22.6%, Open World 20.2%, Realistic 13.5%, Co-op 12.5%, Online Co-Op 10.9%

Step into the vibrant, ever-evolving world of Red Dead Online and experience life in frontier America. Chase down bounties, battle outlaw gangs and other players, hunt, fish and trade, search for exotic treasures, run Moonshine, and much more to discover in a world of astounding depth and detail.

Why similar: Open World 32.5%, Multiplayer 21.6%, Online Co-Op 14.7%, Realistic 12.2%, Shooter 9.5%

Morels is a simulation game about mushroom hunting and wildlife photography. Explore a diverse range of regions spanning across the United States. Increase your hunter and photographer levels by collecting a variety of mushrooms, photographing animals, and completing weekly tasks.

Why similar: Hunting 37.7% ★, Nature 12.3%, Walking Simulator 10.9%, Open World 8.8%, Relaxing 7.2%

Manage your own park facility in a huge open world in Park Ranger Simulator. Take on all the tasks that need to be completed as a park ranger - alone or together in cross-platform multiplayer! You have a variety of vehicles and equipment at your disposal to complete the challenges ahead!

Why similar: Hunting 32.8% ★, Nature 14.3%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Sandbox 9.2%

Go fishing and relax. Craft baits, catch legendary fish and complete your catch album - or take part in epic fishing competitions against other anglers or fishing clubs. Create or join a fishing club and chat with fellow anglers in the in-game chat. Play now for free! Tight lines!

Why similar: Nature 16.8%, Sports 15.4%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Co-op 12.8%, Immersive Sim 11.3%