Far Cry®
Tropical first-person shooter with open areas and tactical combat
Crytek Studios · Published by Ubisoft · Released Apr 1, 2008
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 82% of 12K
- Recent reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 75% of 80 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 87
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- Unknown
- no patch notes found
Metacritic: 89/100 (critic reviews)
What is Far Cry®?
A single-player first-person action shooter set on a tropical island. As mariner Jack Carver, you cross indoor and outdoor areas, fighting mercenaries with close-range gunplay, long-range sniping, stealth, and vehicles while searching for missing reporter Valerie.
For you if...
- +you like difficult, old-school single-player shooters
- +you want tactical choices between stealth, sniping, and firefights
- +you enjoy tropical jungle settings and campy action stories
Not for you if...
- −you want a forgiving, evenly balanced campaign
- −you mainly play shooters for multiplayer matches
What players say
82% of 11,818 reviews are positive · 75% of 80 in the last 30 days
Players praise the tropical environments, tactical freedom, and punchy gunplay. The most common complaints are extreme difficulty spikes and enemy AI that detects or shoots through cover, which players partly attribute to the included patch; several recommend a community fix.
Screenshots and trailer
Far Cry® system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- Processor
- AMD Athlon™ 1 GHz or Pentium® III 1 GHz
- Graphics
- 64 MB DirectX® 9.0b-compliant graphics card (see supported list*)
- Memory
- 256 MB
- Storage
- 4 GB
- DirectX
- DirectX 9.0b or higher
Recommended
- Processor
- AMD Athlon 2-3 GHz or Pentium 4 2-3 GHz
- Graphics
- 128 MB GeForce™ 4 128 MB to GeForce FX 5950; ATI Radeon 9500-9800 XT
- Memory
- 512-1024 MB
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
- Age rating
- 17+
Steam Deck: Playable
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- The native resolution is not the default one
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
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