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…
The Wild Eight is an adventure developed by Fntastic, released 8 February 2018 on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.88 at IndieGala.
What The Wild Eight is
The Wild Eight is an adventure game developed by Fntastic and released in 2018. It was published by HypeTrain Digital. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, horror, mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 25 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Wild Eight holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.1 GHz or AMD FX-6300 @ 3.5 GHz or equivalent, 6 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 or analogue with 2GB VRAM. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.88 at IndieGala, 92% below its usual price.
What it launched against
The Wild Eight launched on 8 February 2018, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Monster Hunter: World, Celeste and Shadow of the Colossus. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Monster Hunter: World, Celeste, Shadow of the Colossus.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Wild Eight yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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