Far Cry® Primal

Great way to pass some time. Large map with lots of areas to explore and quests. Lots of items to craft and make use of in different ways. you can strategize attacks on different enemy encampments and use different methods including animals to help. Caves to explore and items to search out. Not a bad game at all. So far no issues found with the game mechanics.

It does get a thumbs up. I can't think of any game like this featuring the stone age, the take on the primal culture, the visuals and also the effort put into the atmosphere with everyone speaking Wenja. Its unique take and the vibe is what sells it the most but when we put that aside...

...Granted I didn't play the entirety of Far Cry franchise (only Blood Dragon, 4 and this) but I already cannot escape the damning feeling of "if played one Far Cry game then already played all of them".
It starts off very strong and is a joy to behold. About mid way the boredom sets in with repetitive outposts, side quests and random attacks. By the end it turns annoying as already tired of it try to wrap up but suddenly the very same enemies take more hits and arrows to go down...cool.

Everything there is great until you realize how shallow the ocean is. Exploration beside the visuals is unrewarding. All discoverable locations are just there, they don't tell any story or carry any lore behind them (at least not in-game, some of them I bet are historical monuments). You could say it's due to setting limitation as writing would be invented 7000 years later but then a random note is not the only way to relay information. Maybe more dialogue was too expensive, sure, but what about those wall paintings? Why don't they tell stories of the so many places we can find? Who knows.
Some wall paintings are a collectible to find in the caves as a reward for beating a very arbitrary parkour puzzle that can exist only because you can climb only the predefined walls (either find the intended way or suffer) and then to see they are nothing special compared to those you can find in the open world.
All plentiful collectibles are just as useless - they reward nothing but EXP and the "next reward" piece you see when collecting is just greater burst of EXP. By the way this game does have an EXP cap so at a point there will be literally ZERO rewards for anything, collecting, quests, fighting, growing your tribe...experiencing that rendered me speechless. Get punished for keep playing after the main story I guess.

Taming animals is as much of a blessing as it is a curse. Companion that scares off predators and helps fighting is nice. That it may scare away what you're trying to hunt, ruin every stealth attempt or just rush in and die is not nice. You can call it off, then get pounced and killed by random Jaguar or wolf pack...OR 2 enemy squads, wolf pack, 2 rhinos, a cave lion and who knows what else would attack me in the exact same spot if I didn't die in that assault...so yes, the density of encounters when not in Survival mode is problematic.

The mentioned Survival mode doesn't add much to the experience to praise it. You can a stamina bar that in practice just forces you to sleep from time to time and watch unskipable cutscene of the day passing. Removes the minimap (I'm surprised it is in the game at all given the vibe) and makes fauna far more scarce but deadlier (helps with too many encounters when travelling but if you need skins to progress...that may increase the play time by an interesting amount). In the end it wasn't like doing Witcher 3 on Deathmarch which felt like playing a different game, Just a trade between more realism and less fantasy so just pick your poison.
I briefly attempted the expert-survival-permadeath run but getting 1 shot by the gas bomb guy gives me a good enough picture how a full run may look like. But I can't imagine doing those god awful bosses that are here while being this vulnerable.

In the end it's just another Ubisoft fastfood which is only worth checking out due to its unique setting. It's great up to a point, then it's too shallow to stay interesting but you just keep going to see how it ends.

Short story and the game loop is a bit repetititve, but the vibes are worth it.

I haven’t played many other Far Cry games, but having played 3,5, and this, this one is probably my favorite. I love the taming aspect, the primitive feel, and actually carrying over that feel properly into combat. I love being a badass caveman on a panther/bear killing tons of dudes.

Easily one of my favorites. Wish there was more leveling, village expanding etc. Can get a bit grindy but a lot of fun for an old game.

This game is very fun! I love the exploring and the survival aspect is pretty light (unless you play with the survival hardcore mode or perma-death) which is perfect for me! I love taming the beasts and killing bad humans. I've never played a FarCry games before, well because I don't really like guns and FPS shooters... But Primal is so refreshing and nice to explore and unfold the story. I would recommend to people who likes the latest Assassin's Creed, Zelda Breath of the wild or even the Horizon Zero Dawn games.

Arm your owl with bees and send it to commit war crimes. Best game ever.

Bought the game expecting Caveman Simulator 10,000 B.C. Fell in love with the game after it became the Beastmaster game I've always wanted. Fans of the 1982 film and the 1999 TV series, we made it.

Really fun gameplay in the old Ubisoft style, before they added RPG leveling to everything. Exploration is encouraged to build your skill trees and the environments are beautifully rendered and detailed. The soundscapes in particular are a highlight. As for the narrative, its a story about early man. The First of Us, if you will. Its not the deepest tale in the world, but it doesn't need to be. Fans of cavemen, Beastmaster, and Pleistocene wildlife, definitely check it out.

The premise is, unfortunately, way more interesting than the execution, but it is still a fun and rewarding experience if you can snag it on discount.

When I first played Far Cry Primal on the PS4 in 2017 or 2018, I didn't think a great deal of it. This time around, I played it on the "survivor" mode which alters many of the mechanics to slow the pace of the game down and ground you, the player, in the world. With these adjustments, I found it much more substantial and much more engaging. I found myself getting into more routines, learning the paths of Oros, and appreciating its vistas. Even if you don't play on the survivor mode, which I do highly recommend, play this game with the minimap turned off. It vastly enhances the experience and stops you from focusing so intently on the bottom left corner of your screen. The in-world markers are plenty enough to navigate by, and dropping the minimap keeps the moment to moment experience so much more engaging.

Far Cry Primal – A Raw and Beautifully Flawed Journey into the Stone Age

I’ve spent over 50 hours in Far Cry Primal, and while it offers a rich, immersive world, it’s also filled with frustrating limitations and missed potential.

What the game does right:
• The soundtrack is phenomenal. It captures the primal atmosphere perfectly. Final battle music in particular gave me chills. Huge credit to the composer—this is what kept me immersed.
• The open world is thoughtfully designed. No invisible walls, just natural borders like mountains. Climbing points are placed smartly, making exploration smooth and rewarding.
• Main characters are well-written. Each one has a unique personality and backstory. Visiting their huts always brought surprises and atmosphere.

But then… the problems start showing.
• Character arcs are too short. After their stories end, they turn into static NPCs. It feels like the game forgets about them.
• No companions on hunts or missions. In a tribal world, Takkar always goes alone. This feels odd and breaks immersion. Why can’t we take our key characters with us?
• Tamed animals are slow and unresponsive. Jaguars go from agile predators to sluggish followers. Legendary beasts like the Great Bear or Sabertooth? Barely different from regular tames. Where’s the power and fear their quests promised?
• Combat commands are delayed. Sending your beast to attack often feels awkwardly slow.
• XP gain is unbalanced. You won’t get enough skill points to fully upgrade your character without grinding a lot.
• Final bosses are overtuned. Running out of resources mid-fight turns epic battles into tedious scavenging sessions. Instead of testing your skill, the game tests your patience.
• The Mask of Krati is a major letdown. Hyped up as a legendary relic, you get it for 5 minutes before it’s destroyed. Why build a story around something so temporary?
• Quest design is repetitive. Go kill, fetch and kill, burn and kill. Rinse and repeat. It gets old fast.
• The game feels like a dictatorship simulator. What starts as survival turns into tribal domination. Three tribes, and suddenly your tribe wants to wipe out the rest “for the people.” The others resist—and honestly, it’s hard not to sympathize with them.

Why I stopped playing:
At some point, the wonder of discovery gave way to repetition. Despite everything the game does right—the music, the setting, the atmosphere—it becomes a grind. When you find yourself avoiding the main story because the missions feel like chores, it’s hard to stay motivated.

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Final thoughts:
Far Cry Primal has some brilliant elements: an incredible soundtrack, immersive worldbuilding, and a cool setting rarely explored in games. But its shallow mechanics, repetitive quests, and underwhelming character depth keep it from reaching its true potential.

Recommended with caution. If you’re here for the atmosphere and exploration—you’ll enjoy it. If you’re looking for deep gameplay, meaningful progression, and a satisfying narrative… you might end up disappointed.

6.5/10 – Beautiful, but ultimately hollow.

The people, they come to me in my little tub off the main street and they ask me "Thog, what do you think about Far Cry Primal" and i do not say a word, but i do grunt and throw a stone at the lot of them, showing my approval.

Far Cry Primal is, in my opinion the best Far Cry game and by FAR, the best game involving neolithic man, despite the fact that i am literally using shaman magic to fucking tame scary as hell aminals, it feels like im an actual fucking caveman and its soooo fucking cool.

In Short, Thog Like

i feel like not a lot of people enjoyed this game, but it is one of my favorites because of the setting it takes place in. if it had multiplayer it would be a 10/10 for me.

one of the best far cry games. 4 and 5 are also great. i cant say anything about 3 because i haven't played it yet

Even though is single player , on my opinion, this is a great game.

Ya era un juegazo, y encima ahora con logros. 10++

Initial impressions rating after 3.5 hours: 5.5/10. This SHOULD have been right up my alley - I'm a total sucker for games with prehistoric themes, I've had a lot of very enjoyable hours playing Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, and playing a similar game but with some sort of base-building aspect sounded amazing to me! But unfortunately, this one failed to pull me in. The first frustrations were technical issues - much of the time when playing on my Acer Nitro 5 laptop either the visuals or the sound were not working properly. And then even when I could get both working well at the same time, I found I was doing a lot of wandering around, finding supply depots filled with all sorts of ingredients that were meaningless to me, getting murdered by all kinds of beasts that were coming at me out of the bushes and out of the sky, trying to follow a stupid owl, and generally not really knowing what was going on. But I'm old and impatient, and maybe if I decide to give it more time I'll get the hang of it and start to enjoy it more. If I do, I'll come back and edit my review!

Wonderful game!! Always wanted to play this game. Finished the story, they rarely make games like this. One of its kind, hidden gem of far cry series.

This is an incredibly unique game. So much so that it almost transcends farcry as a series. There are a lot of original features and it all feels really well thought out. The plot is surprisingly good, I expected issues because of the lack of cohesive language but they overcame that as well. Truly a testament to an original idea executed well.

Fantastic and fun game. Amazing environment, perfectly balanced gameplay. Taming dangerous beasts and riding them was super fun. The story is simple, but works well. The map is nicely done and quite large. If you like nature, animals, action. This game is exactly for you.

For those who started playing Far Cry before going into Primal, changing firearms for caveman/cavewoman weapons might be a bit wierd but once you get the hang of it, it becomes a good experience. The story could be a bit longer tough, because I found it a little short .

Very fun and satisfying game. There are a limited number of weapons but they all feel fantastic to use, as do the special abilities. I've really enjoyed my time with this game immensely.

Like the game. Don't like bug that never has been fixed were pet randomly dies. Sabertooth fell off cliff. Another time legendary wolf was alive when I grappled down and then legendary wolf was dead when I reached the ground, no enemies were around. This is especially a bad gameplay mechanic when playing survival where you cannot revive pets once dead. Very bad bug that ubisoft should have fixed. When the game centers around you having pet companions.

Easily my favorite Far Cry game (6 being the only one I haven't played).

I've wasted so much time just running around and hunting with my cave lion.

Uno de los mejores de la franquicia, aparte de ser original es entretenido y esteticamente muy bonito.

This game is very good, if you are a brazilian like me you gonna feel it in the hair of your arms the nostalgia for such a not so distant era. The graphics are decent on ultra settings here on my RTX 2060 (pretty old), although you have to tweak a few things in your operating system to run it at least somewhat decently.

Probably the best far cry game.

Find oros, find wenja, help wenja brothers, wenja grow strong, good caveman life.

Loved to replay this game.
Runs really good on steam Deck

Really cool Caveman open world type RPG. Building all the cool ancientish type weapons, all the animals you tame to fight with you like Sabertooth Tigers, and growing your tribe again. Very cool game to waste a lot of time in!

I love the setting and diversion from the usual Far Cry titles, swapping machine guns with primal weapons gives a fresh perspective on the franchise. I played through with 100% and had a blast.

Was a bit expensive when I bought in 2025 considering the game's release year..
other than that.. FC-Primal is definitely a FPS masterpiece.. taming dangerous beasts and riding them was super fun..
weapons from 10,000 BC so no mindless shooting with guns, this is actually a crazy fracking game...
and another best thing in the game is using your Owl to tag/kill enemies, throw bombs from the sky.. top nawtch man
and some repetitive side missions to increase your village population.., meh
overall 13/10

Played till the end, it's getting quite boring after a few hours play. Yes the game has some unique mechanism compared to it's predecessor. But it has the void filling in it's story. Would be better if they put more effort in the story.

Really repetitive, can't take ten steps without an animal attacking you and Ubisoft Connect in a SINGLE PLAYER video game.

I throw rocks at giant cat, fire at fish and food at big bear.
dead : 39 % of the time
fun : 61 % of the time you're dead
nice

Despite being released almost a decade ago, Far Cry Primal still holds up well. It was a short and sweet game with a beautiful ancient world. You basically roleplay as a tribal leader helping unite your people and fighting dangers of the wilderness. Games lately really go overboard with the open-world aspect where you're expected to spend 60+ hours with grindy side quests, or repetitive gameplay loop for hours that add no value except inflating playtime. In contrast, this was a nice change of pace from such games.

Short but good. each run through differs. One run got mauled by bear, most runs a leopard kills me. You have to be smart and careful if doing survivor mode expert with perma death on. Does have its bugs but every game does. just got to learn them and avoid them, one off the bat is make sure your tames are following you, lost a few because they got stuck and i ran to far and pooff. have to go find another. Good luck to all

Good game, good graphics, good price.

Awesome game! Wish they could have added the option of taming Mammoths! It would have become sick! :)

Successfully transports players to a bygone era.
This game can create new category "Primitive Fps".

Pros:
+ Unique Setting
+ Easy to play
+ Primitive language
+- Story(Not good not bad)

Cons:
- Repetitive Gameplay
- Limited Character Development

Wanna watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOaB8Jykhp0

Very fun, love the environment, abilities, upgrades, and combat. If you like FarCry games and don't mind not having the pewpews you should love this game.

This game is terribly optimized .For gaming I play at 4k and not only does it run like shit but it randomly keep crashing and I know this is not steams fault it trash Ubisoft fault The game also sometimes lags during cut scenes. The actual game itself is amazing and I love playing it and it looks amazing but Im 99.999999% sure that the problems i am having are due to Ubisoft

Great setting, graphics and fights, gameplay can get a bit repetitive though.

The game itself is alright (if hella repetitive), but the G family is cancer to gaming, and the anti-consumer practices that they push through Ubisoft shouldn't be tolerated anymore. The sooners that cancerous family is penniless and living rough out on the streets, the better the gaming world will be for it. And if Ubisoft has to go tits-up to realize that? So be it. Boycott these anti-consumer D-bags.

Caveman the game, and it's fun. One of the few concepts Ubisoft sort of nailed and something I would've liked to see more, shame they didn't.

You know how it is with Far Cry games: it has good graphics, with good gameplay, sometimes buggy audio, and an okay story.

This game is PHENOMENAL!!!

For a game that was released almost a decade ago it holds up super well to modern day games, it's easily my favorite FarCry game by far ahead of FarCry 3, Blood Dragon, and 4. the weapons even though they're limited compared to the other games don't feel that way as they make up for it with how fun it feels to wack a neanderthal with a club or how satisfying it can be to get a head shot with the bow.

I sincerely would recommend this game to anyone who's severely disappointed with the current quality of Ubisoft game releases.

Great game that oftentimes doesn't even feel like Far Cry.

The graphics and setting are nothing short of jaw-droppingly stunning. The gameplay is smooth and fun.

AMAZING game!

Astonishing graphics, incredibly fun and balanced gameplay. Even on harder difficulties. The graphics and atmosphere are out of this world. The story is simple, but it JUST WORKS. The map is HUGE too and quite varied. If you love nature, animals, action and just being a Primal Killing Machine - this game is a must have.

This game is the best game I ever played because the story and the graphics and for my passion for Far cry games,
more then that I finish the games 15 times, 5 on easy mode, 5 medium mode and 5 hard mode,
and I have a goal to finish 20 times because I want 5 time on expert mode

Far Cry Primal - a totally different Far Cry game.Welcome to Oros.Land full with different bioms,animals,tribes , resoursers, side quests and many more.The main story is about 15-17 hours+10 more hours if you play all side quests.The story is good.I like the fact that have many specialists you can bring to your village,increase its population,fighting against IZLIZA and UDAM {enemy tribes}.The 2 things with which i feel in love with this game are the takedown skills and taming different kind of animals which is amazing!Also you can ride some of them,especially the mammoth which is CRAZY!There are no guns,just primitive ones - bows,spears and many more.This game is work of art,refined to the last detail.Genuinely recommend it to everyone!

gameplay is very cool if u like prehistoric games and good fighting this game is for you.