
Live the life of a wild wolf in a realistic ecological simulation set in Yellowstone National Park.
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You are a gray wolf in the Northern Range of Yellowstone National Park. Now dispersed from your natal pack, you're on your own – to hunt, explore, find a mate and form your own pack to raise up a new family. Can you and your little pack survive the trials of the wild?


Surviving in the wilderness is far from easy! Hone your hunting skills by practicing on animals such as elk, mule deer, and moose. Once you've grasped their differences and know your limits against your selection of prey, seek out another wolf to become your mate and form a pack together. Explore fields and forests across Yellowstone National Park while you establish a territory and choose a den. Raise your pups by feeding them and playing with them. Protect them from deadly predators who try to kill them.

Over time, your family will outgrow the need for a den and become nomadic, where you teach your pups how to catch their own prey. By next spring they will be yearlings, and test these new skills to help raise the next litter. Eventually, some will venture out on their own and disperse, just as you did all that time ago.

And the cycle repeats, year after year, until you die. The saga of your life begins and ends when you choose, be it one life only or a succession of multiple generations.
Explore realistic recreations of select locations within Yellowstone National Park. Set in the Northern Range (often referred to as "the Serengeti of North America"), where many animals roam meadows, sagebrush steppe grasslands, alpine forests, and high ridges.
But be wary – you are not the only wolf in the area. Rival packs make their home across the landscape and don't take kindly to sight-seeing intruders. Other dangers roam the lands as well – grizzly bears, cougars, and coyotes among them who will vie with you for territory and food.


Raising the bar for realistic and accurate eco-simulation gameplay, many features in the game are directly adapted from wildlife research. Our science advisors include some of the top wolf biologists in the world today, who help us keep WolfQuest accurate to real wolf biology and behavior.
Live the life of a wild wolf! Form your own pack and watch your adorable pups grow into adults and disperse, year after year, until your wolf dies. End your story on your deathbed, or select an heir to continue your legacy.
Dynamic day/night, weather and seasons immerse you into the wilderness.
Wolves communicate with each other using natural actions and vocalizations. Packmates and pups interact and play with each other. Dynamic (family-friendly) courtship interactions help find and choose a suitable mate.
A genetics system models inheritance of each wolf's genes, including eye color, physical and personality attributes, and genetic coat color.
Elk roam the lands in realistic herds, along with moose, mule deer, beavers and other prey.
Animals behave and change to the seasons. Herds migrate through the year. Bucks and bulls spar in the autumn rut and shed their antlers. Cows and does give birth and raise their own young.
Rival wolf packs maintain and protect their own territories from intruders – like you!
Bears, cougars and coyotes will challenge you for your kills and defend their own.
Optional Ironwolf Mode: Live life on the edge, where each decision counts and your death can't be taken back.
Over 100 Achievements and a variety of collectible objects hidden across the map, from shed antlers, skulls, to lost human items.
And a lot more!


Engage in Co-op Multiplayer: Raise your pups together in a group for one game year, maintain territory together against rival packs, or hang out in a sandbox without any real objective.
Live a Wolf's Life Together: Build a pack and raise pups year to year in a special 2-Player Mode, until one of you dies of old age.
Choose who joins your games by selecting if they're public to all, private to friends, or only for select individuals or in-game pack groups.


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Really good game, super timeless. I first found out about it through the old mobile game (of which I've played more than my steam one), but I found out about anniversary edition and I purchased it from steam. I come back to it every now and then for nostalgia :) Prepare for emotional warfare. I've cried atleast 5 times after my pups have died (after killing the entirety of the rival pack) Do not name your pups if you don't want to get attached you WILL be sad. I wouldn't say it's a game that is particularly eyecatching in the sense of I want to hop on everyday, but every few weeks or months I definitely come back to it to play for atleast the entirety of that day. I think the multiplayer function is pretty seamless, and it definitely bumps up the fun factor if you're calling a friend while simultaneously screaming about how a cougar is trying to eat one of your pups (the maximum amount of players in one game is 5 for story missions and 8 for others) About the modes, I haven't dabbled too much into the challenging modes myself (mainly because I'm too emotional about my pups) but if you're into a challenge they've also got harder modes.
Amazing game
i know this is supposed to be a realistic ecological simulator, but my wolf deserves a gun
puppies yayyayyayOH MY GOD A BEAR ITS A BEAR OH MYGOD A BEAR okay bye bear aww wyayyayy puppies
I've been following and playing Wolfquest for about 12 years now and if you enjoy animal survival games, you'll love this! I love making stories about what happens in game, and I always get emotional when a wolf I've played with dies. I absolutely love this game and would highly recommend it :D
WOOFWOOFBARKBARKGRGRGRG!!!!!
amazing! a tad competitive and imo i find it a bit hard, even on the easiest difficulty.,. but thats probably just me haha ! its a great game, very realistic and accurate.
the game is good with updating and actually trying to fix bugs. it literally lets you get to live your life as a wolf!
I absolutely love how it mimics wolves from Yellowstone, the research that is going into this game is beyond amazing; 10/10 definitely recommend!
Really fun! I've gotten obsessed recently. It's cool how far the game has come since the original released. Plays really well on my steam deck!
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