
As a game ranger, use your expert tracking skills and cunning to outsmart invading poachers.
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In the vast wilderness of South Africa's Northern Province, a battle is raging between the ruthless poachers who seek to exploit the region's natural resources, and the dedicated game rangers who are determined to protect the animals and preserve the beauty of the land. "Poached: Hunt The Hunter" puts you in the shoes of a game ranger, tasked with defending the nature reserve from the poachers who seek to destroy it.
Here you must fight to survive. It’s man versus beast versus man versus man. And if you’re no stranger to danger, come play as a ranger fighting off armies of ruthless poachers with nothing but your wits, harsh language, braai tongs and an arsenal of weapons that would make any arms dealer green with envy. You wake up in your camp, make breakfast, get your orders and shoot poachers on sight using high powered automatic weapons. Simple. Or you skip breakfast, that’s up to you. Or you chase chickens around for half an hour, grow hallucinogenic plants in the shed, spend the day barbequing goat chops to perfection, race ostriches or rescue lost rangers stuck in trees, I’m not going to tell you how to live your life. You play it your way. This is the POACHED experience.
Features:
- Fight hilarious enemies
- An open map with day/night cycle & weather
- Approach missions in any direction you choose
- Old-school FPS gameplay
- Crafting, Looting, Merchant & other RPG Elements
- English, Afrikaans, Sepedi & Zulu voice acting cast
- Driving mechanics - own your own 2Litre Bakkie!!!
- Many powerups and secrets to find
- Grow your own powerups and other special herbs
- Hunt for food and make braais, craft and camp
- 14 weapons to discover and use
- Easy Inventory & Crafting menus
- Hub based mission gameplay
- 12 Action-Packed levels + cinematics and lore
- Side quests and bonus missions to complete
- Ostrich racing, golf and other activities to explore
- Virtual stock market and online shopping
- Realistic South African weapon types
- Hours of virtual S.A. radio stations to listen to while driving
- Interactive realtime virtual braai mechanics
- Camping, drinking moerkoffie and eating bokvleis
- Many Steam Achievements
- Armor types such as bulletproof vests and stealth camoflage
- An optional shooting range for practicing and trying out new gear
A game by Ingozi Games South Africa, a one man development studio backed by a talented team of voice actors and musicians.
Voice & Casting by Asylum Studios
Original Soundtrack by Senkhane Montsitsi
The game has currently been in development for approximately 3 Years, and will be releasing into Early Access for a dollar-store price.
The Early Access process will last another 3 years to ensure maximum compatibility with all systems and best possible experience.
The price will remain low and fair as agreed by the community at all times of the development phase and full transparency is always ensured. The games development is fully self funded and I encourage players to rather not buy the game until it's out of early access unless they want to be involved in the development process and instead download the free demo while waiting for the finished game! The demo itself will be regularly updated as the main game branch is updated for free forever.
The game already currently has a great community behind it with over 100+ Private Beta testers that have helped steer development since the projects inception in 2020. Please feel free to join in on the discussions on our Steam Forums and make sure to play the Free Demo now!!!
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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I like how funny it is to hear my language Afrikaans it is nice game for a one man developer can't wait to see what the future holds for the up coming updates well done making a game about what's happening in our wild life parks
Wow, I'm blown away by this game. I thought it would look good, but it's even better than I thought it would be. I noticed it gets updated quite often and that's usually a good sign. This game is going to have a lot of people playing it. The level of detail is unbelievable and the game looks and plays well. To the developer or developers keep up the good work, I think you have something here.
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If you live in South Africa, then this is a good and funny Early Access game. If you live anywhere else in the world, then this is just simply a bad game. --- Overall I'm very excited to see how this game improves and changes over the course of Early Access and I'll definitely try to play the game again in the future. For now, I wouldn't recommend it. But I will keep my eye on it. --- Two real issues: 1. The game completely crashes my whole computer after completing mission 1. This has happened twice already and thus I haven't played past mission 1 yet. 2. The game doesn't have fullscreen windowed mode. I really need this in all the games I play so that I'm easily able to play while doing other things on the computer. --- Gameplay wise. Something feels off. I can't exactly say what, but something feels weird and off. I think it's a combination of a few things such as shooting, walking, running, etc. But I think this is okay since it is Early Access at this point.
A Hidden Gem... Poached: Hunt The Hunter is a charming and accessible hunting simulation that caters to a broad audience. Its fun visuals, ethical considerations, and well-designed game play make it a standout title in the genre. Whether you're a seasoned hunter or a casual gamer, Poached invites you on a delightful adventure into the wild, promising hours of enjoyable game play and a newfound appreciation for the art of the hunt of poachers. Nothing beats the South African experience. Its certainly a one of a kind!
What a hidden gem,the price is way to low so don't let that scare you off. This is a awesome game👍👍👍👍👍
very well put together game and outstanding responses in forums
Dream job
Cheap, Short, Fun I discovered this game from an oboeshoes video. That video was made only about a month before I bought the game, but the developer had already made clear improvements in that short time. I only had a few issues with the game. First, the use of AI art in loading screens is pretty disappointing. The radio chatter is pretty funny, but I suspect that the voices are AI as well. Second, when your character is shot the screen shakes and it makes it very difficult to aim which makes any close firefights annoying.
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Tricky review on this one as in its current form I don't recommend it but should it change during development i would recommend it. I like the potential it has but there are a lot of negatives currently. No torch so when it's dark you're blind. When it gets dark you can pitch a tent and sleep until daylight, which is great but you can't pick it up or buy another one, which is bad. Cooking meat is finicky: press LMB to grab, which then knocks your other meat on the ground, RMD to flip, this makes it spin...fast. So you have to try to guess when to let it go. Why not press RMB to flip it once? Why the need to grab it? Click RMB to flip, create the animation, done. Doesn't need to be so complicated. Ammunition is scattered around the camp, like rifle ammo in the toilet building, shotgun behind shed door, sniper rifle in a basket beside the caravan. Just weird. Missions are all very close to camp so the vehicle is unnecessary, literally walk out of camp into mission area, camp is raided constantly, enemies take quite a few rifle rounds to put them down though they have head shot damage which was good. Pistol seems to do same damage as rifle, weird. Enemies can see and shoot you through rocks, trees and bushes. Makes it very uneven. Enemy interactions seem to spawn very close to you so everything feels like an ambush. Store allows for purchase of items though they are expensive. I'm at a mission where i need to capture a dude alive but the tranq gun is 8000 and i've only got 3500 after looting every body i've seen so I've no idea how to complete this mission.
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