WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition

WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition

Released Jul 2025

Live the life of a wild wolf in a realistic ecological simulation set in Yellowstone National Park.

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WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition launched out of Early Access on July 22, 2025, and eduweb has maintained a vigorous post-launch development pace ever since. Major paid DLC expansions have shipped at a steady clip: the Building Character Pack (May 2022), Lost River (December 2022), Hellroaring Mountain (April 2024), and most recently Tower Fall (January 28, 2026), which also brought the game to version 3.0. All six currently listed DLC items on the store have been released. However, on July 14, 2026, the developer formally announced the next expansion: Katmai Coast, set in Katmai National Park in Alaska. The announcement describes it as "a full-blown game expansion" — not just a map — featuring entirely new prey mechanics (hunting sea otters, harbor seals, and salmon), a large new coastal environment at Cape Douglas, and systems tailored to coastal wolf behavior. A follow-up FAQ post on July 30, 2026 confirmed it will be a paid DLC, priced above a standard map DLC but below the base game, and that the team is still working on it with no release date announced yet. A second devblog on August 13, 2026 goes into detail on map site selection, indicating active development work continues. Alongside this announced expansion, the developer continues to ship regular patches: patch v3.0.1e (April 9, 2026) added in-game radio-collaring; v3.0.1j (July 14, 2026) introduced variable prey and food abundance mechanics; and a new beta (v3.0.1l) opened on August 10, 2026, just three days before today's date. The game is under continuous, active development with a named, unshipped expansion on the way.
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Developer publishes detailed devblog on map site selection for the Katmai Coast expansion, discussing why Cape Douglas was chosen. Active development of the expansion is ongoing as of today's date.
news post · Aug 13, 2026 source content planned
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Developer FAQ post confirms Katmai Coast will be a paid DLC expansion, priced above a standard map DLC but below the base game. No release date has been set. Developer says more devblogs about the expansion will follow.
news post · Jul 30, 2026 source content planned
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Developer
Publisher
eduweb
Achievements
148
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op

About this game

You are a gray wolf in the Northern Range of Yellowstone National Park. Now dispersed from your natal pack, you're on your own – to hunt, explore, find a mate and form your own pack to raise up a new family. Can you and your little pack survive the trials of the wild?

Wolf running through grassland

Live the Life of a Wild Wolf

Surviving in the wilderness is far from easy! Hone your hunting skills by practicing on animals such as elk, mule deer, and moose. Once you've grasped their differences and know your limits against your selection of prey, seek out another wolf to become your mate and form a pack together. Explore fields and forests across Yellowstone National Park while you establish a territory and choose a den. Raise your pups by feeding them and playing with them. Protect them from deadly predators who try to kill them.

Wolf biting elk

Over time, your family will outgrow the need for a den and become nomadic, where you teach your pups how to catch their own prey. By next spring they will be yearlings, and test these new skills to help raise the next litter. Eventually, some will venture out on their own and disperse, just as you did all that time ago. 

Wolf family playing together

And the cycle repeats, year after year, until you die. The saga of your life begins and ends when you choose, be it one life only or a succession of multiple generations.

Explore realistic recreations of select locations within Yellowstone National Park. Set in the Northern Range (often referred to as "the Serengeti of North America"), where many animals roam meadows, sagebrush steppe grasslands, alpine forests, and high ridges.

But be wary – you are not the only wolf in the area. Rival packs make their home across the landscape and don't take kindly to sight-seeing intruders. Other dangers roam the lands as well – grizzly bears, cougars, and coyotes among them who will vie with you for territory and food.

Wolf trotting towards sunrise

Realistic Ecology-Based Gameplay

Raising the bar for realistic and accurate eco-simulation gameplay, many features in the game are directly adapted from wildlife research. Our science advisors include some of the top wolf biologists in the world today, who help us keep WolfQuest accurate to real wolf biology and behavior.

  • Live the life of a wild wolf! Form your own pack and watch your adorable pups grow into adults and disperse, year after year, until your wolf dies. End your story on your deathbed, or select an heir to continue your legacy.

  • Dynamic day/night, weather and seasons immerse you into the wilderness.

  • Wolves communicate with each other using natural actions and vocalizations. Packmates and pups interact and play with each other. Dynamic (family-friendly) courtship interactions help find and choose a suitable mate.

  • A genetics system models inheritance of each wolf's genes, including eye color, physical and personality attributes, and genetic coat color.

  • Elk roam the lands in realistic herds, along with moose, mule deer, beavers and other prey.

  • Animals behave and change to the seasons. Herds migrate through the year. Bucks and bulls spar in the autumn rut and shed their antlers. Cows and does give birth and raise their own young.

  • Rival wolf packs maintain and protect their own territories from intruders – like you!

  • Bears, cougars and coyotes will challenge you for your kills and defend their own.  

  • Optional Ironwolf Mode: Live life on the edge, where each decision counts and your death can't be taken back.

  • Over 100 Achievements and a variety of collectible objects hidden across the map, from shed antlers, skulls, to lost human items.

  • And a lot more!

Wolf holding moose antlers in mouth

Work wtih Packmates in Multiplayer!

  • Engage in Co-op Multiplayer: Raise your pups together in a group for one game year, maintain territory together against rival packs, or hang out in a sandbox without any real objective.

  • Live a Wolf's Life Together: Build a pack and raise pups year to year in a special 2-Player Mode, until one of you dies of old age.

  • Choose who joins your games by selecting if they're public to all, private to friends, or only for select individuals or in-game pack groups.

    Wolves howlling together

Steam Deck Compatible

WolfQuest is Verified on Steam Deck!

Last evaluated Aug 13, 2026
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