WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition for Windows

WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition is a simulation game that places you in the fur of a wild gray wolf navigating life in Yellowstone National Park. Starting as a lone wolf on Amethyst Mountain, you’ll track prey, survive predators, and form your pack. Now it includes the WolfQuest Saga, a mode that lets your family persist through multiple years. 

WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition emphasizes realistic ecology, with authentic animal behavior, weather cycles, and interspecies interactions shaping the world. From solo hunting to pack-building, it builds a long-form simulation without shortcuts. The action mechanics are built around life stages, seasonal cycles, and predator-prey dynamics.

Life, territory, and survival

In WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition, you begin as a young dispersing wolf, learning to hunt prey like elk and moose. Pack dynamics and survival instincts drive early gameplay, requiring you to track herds and compete with other predators. Prey reacts based on group behavior, stamina, and terrain, making each hunt a logistical challenge. You should balance hunger, injuries, and nearby threats with a flexible, situational hunting approach.

Once a mate is found, your focus shifts. You establish a den and protect your litter from cougars, bears, and rival wolves. Pups grow over time, and their care is tied to feeding, bonding, and territory control. Wolf communication mechanics, including vocalizations and postures, influence interactions with your mate, pups, and threats. These behaviors are tied to survival more than aesthetics, emphasizing biological accuracy.

Pups grow into yearlings, new litters are born, and aging introduces new factors. Dispersal, mating cycles, and inter-pack conflicts persist in real time. Weather changes and the aging system, via Age Perks, alter your wolf's performance across years. You can continue the lineage by switching control to mates or offspring after death, creating an ongoing cycle of natural gameplay. Though long-term play depends on slow pacing.

A cycle that doesn’t end

WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition is a long-form ecological simulation that prioritizes real-world wolf behavior over traditional gameplay structures. There are no cutscenes, quests, or abstract goals, only life as it unfolds, year by year. The game emphasizes biological processes, pack dynamics, and emergent events over narrative. As a wildlife simulator, it delivers granular behavioral systems and a strong sense of continuity through age, terrain, and seasons.

• Improved world map display
• Grass refinements
• Fixed known wolves are sometimes not updated
• Fixed Lost River DLC
• Fixed two-player full saga
• Fixed grass and bush setting