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Far Cry® Primal is an open-world action-adventure game focused on survival and hunting. Released in 2016 by Ubisoft, it has garnered 37,633 Steam reviews with an 86% positive rating. The title explores a prehistoric setting with action and survival mechanics.
Overview
Far Cry® Primal is a 2016 Action game developed by Ubisoft and published by Ubisoft. On Steam it has gathered 40,093 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Ubisoft with publisher Ubisoft is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 2.3 million to 5.3 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Far Cry® Primal can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
40,093
Positive
86%
Steam appid
371660
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.02.3M to 5.3M
units (median: 3.8M)
≈ $39.1M to $91.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| final NB | 95 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Far Cry® Primal at roughly 2.3 million to 5.3 million copies, with a median around 3.8 million, derived from its 40,093 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $65.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $17.57Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $17.57 to $29.99, averaging $28.17 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $17.57 on 2026-05-14.
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Where to buy
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- Humble Store$29.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$31.24 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Open WorldSurvivalActionAdventureHuntingFirst-PersonSingleplayerOpen World Survival CraftCraftingExplorationFPSStealthAtmosphericMatureShooterRPGAction RPGStrategyOnline Co-OpSexual Content
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Far Cry® Primal sold?
- indielist estimates Far Cry® Primal has sold between 2,285,301 and 5,332,369 units (median 3,808,835), derived from its 40,093 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Far Cry® Primal?
- Far Cry® Primal was developed by Ubisoft and published by Ubisoft.
- When was Far Cry® Primal released?
- Far Cry® Primal was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Far Cry® Primal have on Steam?
- Far Cry® Primal has 40,093 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Far Cry® Primal within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Ubisoft's other releases and Ubisoft's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Far Cry® Primal sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Far Cry® Primal page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.