theHunter: Call of the Wild™ Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-16
- Stunning graphics and immersive open-world experience
- Diverse wildlife and unique hunting mechanics
- Fun and enjoyable gameplay loop
- Excessive and expensive DLCs
- Bugs and technical issues reported
- Developer focus on DLCs over fixes
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMmixedWindows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 197,134
- Positive
- 175,61189.1%
- Negative
- 21,52310.9%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 13,882,739
- Estimated revenue
- $277,515,953
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 4251.94%
- Estimated copies lost
- 29,930
- Estimated revenue lost
- $598,301
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 4282% Avg playtime 1h | 3711.7% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 1,5907.3% Avg playtime 78.2h | 19,52889.1% Avg playtime 117.9h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 6.5 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 41.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 281.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,375.6 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
21,917 total
Organic purchasers18,89086.2%
Voted up: 91%
Key activations3,02713.8%
Voted up: 90%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
21,917 total
First impression0-2h1,0354.72%
Voted up: 53%
Mid game2-10h5,99427.3%
Voted up: 88%
Late game10-20h3,76217.2%
Voted up: 94%
Endgame20h+11,12650.8%
Voted up: 95%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
94.6%
Global baseline 90.8%
37 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 197,134 total.