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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.

The Wild Eight is a survival, open world survival craft and multiplayer game developed by Eight Points and published by HypeTrain Digital.
Released on October 03rd 2019 is available only on Windows in 11 languages: English, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, Polish and Turkish.

It has received 7,897 reviews of which 5,407 were positive and 2,490 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.7 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.80€ on K4G.

The Steam community has classified The Wild Eight into these genres:

Survival Open World Survival Craft Multiplayer Open World Mystery Co-op Adventure Crafting Online Co-Op Sandbox Indie RPG Action Atmospheric Singleplayer Simulation Survival Horror Difficult Strategy Horror

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Windows

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

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2026

Fun solo game. Great Multiplayer friends game. Yes the graphics are dated and the controls are basic, but the content of the game is surprisingly good.

Nov. 2025

It's actually quite fun, good with friends, well worth the discount price, not worth full price. It's got lots of glitches and seems quite unpolished, but fun.

Nov. 2025

Danger, Randomness, and a Lot of Snow I played The Wild Eight solo, and what pulled me in right away was how unpredictable everything felt. The world is full of random events, quests, and locations. One moment you’re freezing to death, the next you’re opening some strange bunker door or stumbling into a new puzzle you didn’t expect. It’s dangerous, but in a fun way; you always have that choice to fight, run, or just sneak past and hope for the best. Exploration was easily my favorite part. I loved wandering around just to see what I might find next, some cool tools or weapons, a new ingredient, a blueprint, or a random event that completely changes the situation. Every time I uncovered a new location, I felt that little surge of excitement. The game definitely has its flaws. Combat gets repetitive, and I wish the weapons felt more unique. And some small bugs can be rough, once all my items disappeared at my corpse location. I could see myself coming back with friends someday. Even with its rough edges, The Wild Eight is a strange, unpredictable little adventure that’s just fun to get lost in.

Aug. 2025

This is a decent game. There are some minor typos here and there, but it's not overly distracting. One of the biggest issues is the inability to retrieve your items if you die after walking into a pit. Reloading a save seems to be the only way around that. Of note, the 200 day achievement feels very excessive. I had everything explored by around day 130 and I felt like that was not particularly fast. The way to 200 is then to just sleep in the tent with a giant stockpile of wood and ore until you get there. The interaction needed to create a torch was nice, and I was surprised there did not seem to be more of that type of interaction. A better way to repair boots would be welcome as well. I do not think these things detract from what is a decent game however. I feel like I got my money's worth.

July 2025

The Wild Eight is a 3rd person survival game set in the Alaskan cold winter wilderness. You have to maintain health, hunger, and cold bars as you try to find a way to escape this wasteland. You find gear, gather supplies, and upgrade skills and items to help aid in your adventure. That's the core of the game. As a big fan of survival games from Grounded to Green Hell, lets list some pros and cons of the game. Pros -Abundant supplies; scavenging the map very easily gives you access to materials needed to upgrade or gear readily available to use. -Easy farming; unlike some games which require legitimate time set aside to farm for wood and coal, this game relieves that burden by making it very easy to gather enough resources in short amount of time. -Useful Level up system; very easy and useful leveling up system that doesn't feel grindy to obtain better stats and traits -Fast Travel Mechanic; Thankfully has a fast travel mechanic that becomes better as you explore -Map/ Places of Interest; some may like this and others may not but I like the map system. Basically its a grid set up where once you enter a unknown grid, it reveals the whole grid. This allows slow progression of revealing the map but not in a too nikpicky way. Also enjoy that basically anything worth visiting is shown on the map, so there isn't an secret or hidden things you may miss since the map will just flat out show you it. Some will like this as this saves time and other's won't as it makes it less fun to search for exciting things. -Easy 100% achievement completion; my 2nd game to get 100% completion so there's that if you're an achievement hunter Cons -Easily can be a very short game; you can easily complete this game in like 15-20 hours which isn't the best for a survival-crafting game. Which of course for some people would be too short -Lack of variety; kinda going with the previous point, lack of variety of what you can do besides explore and do quests. For example Grounded can let you customize a base and have collectables around the map. Green Hell gives you the same options and allows you to find a lot of hidden secrets around the map. The Wild Eight is more straight-forward without having any fun side things to do. - Late Game is boring; early game is fun as you get to level up and upgrade fast but once you have everything upgrade (which doesn't take super long at all), it suddenly becomes a little more grindy without any fun to counter it. - No real reason to replay; I finished this game after 100% the achievements and after that I have no real need to replay it. Fun the first time and that's all I need from it. Side note there's a few quality of life improvements I wish they would implement but I just know it won't occur. - Remove Quest Markers on Map; after completing a quest I really wish they would remove the markers on the map but they just stay there the whole time which is kinda annoying - Be able to move/ remove chests- Once you place a chest down, you can't remove it EVER. Very weird and annoying. Final Notes - Not a bad game at all, just be aware it will most likely be a one and done kind of game. I played this solo and still had great fun so maybe as a group it could be even better. But still worth playing, I spent 69 hours (hehe nice) on it and I had a blast.

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The Wild Eight is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.

The Wild Eight is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.99€ on Steam.

The Wild Eight received 5,407 positive votes out of a total of 7,897 achieving a rating of 6.72.

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The Wild Eight was developed by Eight Points and published by HypeTrain Digital.

The Wild Eight is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Wild Eight is not playable on MacOS.

The Wild Eight is not playable on Linux.

The Wild Eight offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

The Wild Eight includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.

There are 2 DLCs available for The Wild Eight. Explore additional content available for The Wild Eight on Steam.

The Wild Eight does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

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The Wild Eight is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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