- Step into the wilderness with Way of the Hunter: Wild America
- Explore the Nez Perce valley and its changing weather and climate
- Hunt realistic simulations of real animals with equally realistic firearms
The hunting genre of shooter has been a surprising constant in gaming. And now you’ll be able to experience the next epoch in hunting simulation with the hotly anticipated mobile port of Nine Rocks Games’ Way of the Hunter: Wild America and its vast open world recreation of the Pacific Northwest.
Yes, forget everything you thought you knew about the shooting gallery nature of hunting sims. In Way of the Hunter, you won’t be waiting around for a doe to wander into your sights, and you’ll need to hike all across the beautifully rendered Nez Perce valley to track down your prey.
You’ll have your work cut out for you, however, with realistic animal behaviour and changing weather posing an ever-changing challenge. Add onto that the realistic bullet and ballistics simulation, and you’ll either need to bring your own real-world experience or adapt quickly to learn the ahem Way of the Hunter, so to speak.
Beyond the pines
Way of the Hunter certainly isn’t built with a casual audience in mind, and hunting enthusiasts can look forward to a realistic trophy system to display their accomplishments, with antlers and horns generated based on factors such as fitness and age.
Firearms enthusiasts, meanwhile, can marvel over realistic recreations of officially licensed firearms from famous manufacturers such as Bushnell, Leupold and Remington.
It even comes with its own story, as you face the struggles of maintaining a family hunting business and all the drama that comes with it. Promising a little something for everyone in this jam-packed adaptation of the hit hunting sim.
While there aren’t many shooters that have the same simulationist aspects, there’s still plenty to pick from on mobile. Check out our list of the best mobile shooting games out there on iOS and Android, for granular simulation and arcade action.
