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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.

Released Oct 3, 2019Mixed · 69% of 6.7KPEGI 12
Steam Deck PlayableActionAdventureIndieRPGSimulationCo-Op
The Wild Eight
The Wild Eight
The Wild Eight
The Wild Eight
The Wild Eight
The Wild Eight
The Wild Eight
The Wild Eight
The Wild Eight
The Wild Eight
The Wild Eight
Developer: Eight Points
Publisher: HypeTrain Digital
The Wild Eight
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About The Wild Eight

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About the Game

The mysterious plane crash was only the beginning. Eight survivors are stranded in the middle of an unforgiving frozen wilderness of Alaska. Don’t let it consume you. Find out the truth. Survive and live to tell the tale of The Wild Eight.

In The Wild Eight, always be on the move — it is your only way to survive and find out what happened with this mysterious place. It is a challenging and fun game designed for both teamwork multiplayer and an immersive single-player experience.

  • Explore and Survive

    Embark on an adventure into the ruthless arctic wilderness and uncover the truth behind a mysterious plane crash that left its surviving passengers to die.
  • Cooperate

    Join with other players online (up to 8 players in one party) or begin the dangerous journey on your own.
  • Hunt or Be Hunted

    Gather resources, craft and improve your equipment at the camping site, escape blizzards and fight deadly beasts that lurk in the woods.
  • Loot

    Find supernatural anomalies, strange laboratories and abandoned facilities, full of useful loot and things that don’t belong to this world.

Story

Show

In no time the everyday lives of eight people change forever. They have just survived a mystic plane crash and now find themselves in the middle of horizonless winter forest in Alaska. You are one of the survivors. Act on your own or join efforts with other players and do your best to get back home. Side by side: Survive and explore the forest with other players. It’s the right way to stand against this harsh world... until a madman appears in your group who wishes to grab the catch. Develop skills: At night the temperature drops to critical points, and a bleeding wound worries you when least expected.You must develop all survival skills such as creation of shelters and other necessary things, otherwise you’re doomed to death. What’s happening: Where did all these deserted buildings and mutated wolves come from? Solve all the puzzles of this place to get out of here.

Trailers

Teaser
Trailer
Pre-Alpha Gameplay Trailer

Game details

Developers
Eight Points
Publishers
HypeTrain Digital
Release date
Oct 3, 2019
Genres
Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Co-Op, Survival, Open World Survival Craft, Multiplayer, Open World, Mystery, Crafting, Online Co-Op, Sandbox, Singleplayer, Atmospheric, Survival Horror, Difficult, Strategy, Horror
Modes
Single-player, Multiplayer, Online co-op
Controller
Full controller support
Steam features
25 achievements, Family Sharing, Remote Play, Trading cards
Themes
Action, Science fiction, Horror, Survival, Mystery
Camera
Isometric
Engine
Unity

Languages

LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishSupportedNot supportedSupported
FrenchSupportedNot supportedSupported
GermanSupportedNot supportedSupported
Portuguese (Brazil)SupportedNot supportedSupported
Simplified ChineseSupportedNot supportedSupported
KoreanSupportedNot supportedSupported
RussianSupportedNot supportedSupported
JapaneseSupportedNot supportedSupported
System requirements

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

Ratings

Steam reviews

Mixed

69% of 6.7K

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IGDB critics

70

1 critic score

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Age rating

PEGI 12

Violence, Bad Language

About PEGI ratings

Steam Deck & Linux

Steam Deck Playable

  • Open the on-screen keyboard yourself when typing
  • Some text is small and hard to read
  • Everything works with the default controls
  • Shows Steam Deck button icons
  • Runs well with the default graphics settings
  • SteamOS: Playable
  • Steam Machine: Playable

ProtonDB: Gold · 13 reports See reports

DLC & editions

Also on Steam

  • The Wild Eight – Soundtrack
  • The Wild Eight - Supporter Pack
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Release date: Oct 3, 2019

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