Once a character is created and the tutorial completed, the player can hunt freely, activate missions and earn one of two types of in-game currency called gm$. Creating a character requires selecting an avatar from a pool of unique faces, and adding a unique name.

To play the player must first create a character on the game’s website, which includes social networking tools and messaging capabilities to allow players to connect and share in-game experiences. The game is fully playable for no charge. It features five huntable animal types whitetail deer, european rabbit, cottontail rabbit, snowshoe hare and pheasant. The initial setting is on an open world island based on various locations, including the islands and surroundings of Washington state in the United States, Australian Outback, French Alps and more. TheHunter games play as first-person hunting games that recreate hunting wild animals in a manner as realistic as possible.

The most recent entry in the series, theHunter: Call of the Wild, was developed by Expansive Worlds and published by Avalanche Studios in February 2017. A standalone expansion, theHunter: Primal, was developed and published by Expansive Worlds and Avalanche Studios, and released in March 2015. Subsequently, Avalanche Studios bought the rights to the franchise and opened Expansive Worlds as a subsidiary that would exclusively focus on theHunter development. The first game in the series, known as theHunter, was developed and published by Emote Games, in association with Avalanche Studios, and released in April 2009. TheHunter is a series of simulation video games developed by Expansive Worlds and published by its parent company, Avalanche Studios.

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