Community27 Aug 2026How Do We Know What Katmai Wolves Eat?What first drew us to the Katmai Coast as the location for a WolfQuest Game expansion? It was research conducted by Ellen Dymit, a wildlife biologist and doctoral student who has been studying the diet of wolves along the coast (and who played WolfQuest when she was young!). Ellen's research forms the basis of this expansion, because while the life of wolves in Katmai is very similar to those e…
v3.0.1l - RELEASED 18 AUGUST 2026 IMPROVEMENTS · Tweaked several instances of water appearance in Slough Creek. · Food Abundance: Prevent two years in a row on Poor. · Made foxes stay farther away from a carcass when defeated, so packmates will stop obsessing about them. · Tweaked coat frequency odds to equalize the in-game chances of certain coats. · Tweaked Summer Pup scent-tracking animation…
The state of Alaska is big -- very big. And so is Katmai National Park and Preserve, the location for the upcoming Katmai game expansion. Katmai is almost twice as big (16,500 square kilometers) as Yellowstone National Park (about 9,000 square kilometers). So, where in that vast expanse should we put our Katmai Coast game map? Obviously we want to set it on the coast -- but the Katmai coast is…
v3.0.1l - BETA 1 NOTE: Game saves ARE backward compatible with the last released patch, so if you switch back to that versions, you can continue playing a save from this beta. Multiplayer games are also backward-compatible with the last released patch, so you can play with others who are not in this beta. IMPROVEMENTS: · Tweaked several instances of water appearance in Slough Creek. · Reduced m…
Since announcing the upcoming Katmai Coast game expansion two weeks ago, we've seen a lot of discussion and received a lot of questions about it! In today's devblog I'll address a few of those. First: Many people are using the term "sea wolves" when talking about wolves in the Katmai expansion. This term is generally used to describe wolves who live on Vancouver Island and along the coast of Br…
We've created a "Complete the Set" bundle for our two wolf customization packs and three game maps. Get 20% if you buy them all -- or if you've already purchased some of them, get 20% off if you buy the rest of them!
Seven years ago, we released WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition into Early Access -- and one year ago, we exited Early Access and released the game officially! To celebrate this double anniversary, the game is on sale -- 34% off! If you've got WolfQuest on your wish list, this is a good opportunity to save a few bucks. Or gift it to a friend! Act fast, this sale will last only six days. It ends on…
The coast of Katmai National Park in southwest Alaska is a remote, wild, and beautiful place -- and it's the setting for a major WolfQuest game expansion! Isolated from the interior of the park by the Alaskan Range, the coast is devoid of ungulates aside from some moose. What's a wolf to eat? Ever adaptable, wolves here have learned how to hunt sea otters and harbor seals. These marine mammals…
v3.0.1j - RELEASED 9 JULY 2026 NEW: Variable Prey and Food Abundance · When enabled in Game Settings: Gameplay tab, prey populations will fluctuate from year to year. (Enable it in Main Menu for new games. Load a saved game and enable it, and it will then be enabled in all saves that you load until you disable it.) · The "badness" of the year is determined on your wolf's birthday and a readout…
For nearly twenty years now, enthusiastic players have shared ideas and suggestions on how improve WolfQuest. And that hasn't stopped with the release of the Saga! We appreciate all of them -- and it's also helpful to see what patterns emerge. For example, there are many suggestions on how to add more variation to the gameplay. The life of a wild wolf is (if they're lucky) quite consistent and…
v3.0.1j - PUBLIC BETA NOTE: Game saves ARE backward compatible with the last released patch, so if you switch back to that version, you can continue playing a save from this beta. But multiplayer games are NOT backward-compatible with the last released patch. All players must be on this beta to play together. NOTE: We've gotten some suggestions to make ungulates weaker during bad years under Va…
v3.0.1i - RELEASED 10 JUNE 2026 BUGS FIXED: · MacOS: Graphics: Grass and Distant Shadows not working. · Slough Creek: Lighting discrepancy on water behind beaver pond near Gravel Fan. · Tower Fall: A dead tree den has dirt den icon in scent view.
v3.0.1h - PUBLIC BETA Note: Game saves and multiplayer games are backward-compatible with the last patch, v3.0.1g. BETA 2 BUGS FIXED: * Multitudinous bugs with pup behavior due to missing animations. BETA 1 NEW * Game Settings: Audio: Added toggle for "Entering Hex" sound effect. * Game Settings: Display: Show preview of nametag scaling. IMPROVEMENTS * Improved odds of in-game collaring of play…
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a request on Steam and on the WolfQuest Discord to help me with a magazine article I'm writing. I asked for anecdotes and accounts about how WolfQuest has affected our players. And people delivered – big time! We've known since the first release of the game in 2007 that a lot of players really connect with the game. We know from the 2009 summative evaluation that…
v3.0.1g - RELEASED 30 APRIL 2026 IMPROVEMENTS: · "Woofing at Pups" and "Target Packmate!" notifications are now Common Notifications (and so will not display when Common Notifications are hidden in Game Settings). · Refinements to wolf jumping IK when running. · Show notification about connection issues in Russia if File Sync process stalls and Russian is selected for language or MP region. · A…
To celebrate Earth Day, WolfQuest is ON SALE -- 34% off! If you've got WolfQuest on your wish list, this is a rare opportunity to save a few bucks. Or gift it to a friend! Act fast, this sale will last only one week. It ends on 29 April at 1 p.m. Eastern (US) / 1700 UTC. (We are not part of the annual Earth Appreciation Sale this year, due to an unfortunately overeager spam filter that snagged…
v3.0.1g - PUBLIC BETA NOTE: Game saves ARE backward compatible with the last released patch (v3.0.1f), so if you switch back to that version, new saves will be hidden until this patch is officially released. Multiplayer games are also backward-compatible with the last released patch, so you can play with those who are on that version. BETA 1 NOTE: This beta build has additional debugging for th…
We are writing an article about WolfQuest and want to include some anecdotes about how the game has affected players. If you have any such stories, we'd love to hear them! Anecdotes can range from simple (the game once inspired you to do a school report about wolves) to life-changing (the game influenced your decision to study wildlife ecology), or anything in between, including unusual and une…
v3.0.1e - RELEASED 9 APRIL 2026 CHANGES · Very old game saves (from before February 2021) can no longer be loaded (and are not displayed in the Load Saved Game panel), due to a vulnerability in that old code which would allow a malicious actor to run malicious code on the player's computer. NEW: IN-GAME RADIO-COLLARING · In-game radio collaring: Player-pack and rival wolves can be radio-collare…
So much of what we know about Yellowstone wolves is from the radio collars that biologists put on them. Every winter, Yellowstone biologists go out and collar some wolves. (It's easier to spot wolves against the snow, without the cover of vegetation, and often there's some deep snow on the ground to slow the wolves down.) Using a tracker airplane to locate the packs and a helicopter to dart ind…
v3.0.1e - PUBLIC BETA NOTE: Game saves are backward compatible with the last released patch, so if you switch back to that version, new saves will be hidden until this patch is officially released. Multiplayer games are NOT backward-compatible with the last released patch, so you can only play with those who have this beta version. BETA 12 CHANGES: · Very old game saves (from before February 20…
The WolfQuest server will be offline for awhile tonight for upgrades. It will go offline at 2am Eastern Standard Time (U.S) / 7am UTC. We expect the upgrade to take 1-3 hours. The server should be back online at 5am EST / 10am UTC at the latest. Game accounts will be offline during this downtime, so you will not be able to login to play multiplayer or earn achievements. This upgrade is necessar…
Now that the Tower Fall DLC map has been out for a month, let's take a peek at some of the behind-the-scenes stories about a few elements of the map. With over 30 collectible objects across the existing maps, it's getting increasingly hard to think up new collectibles for new maps. So during our last trip to Yellowstone, we wandered around the Tower Fall General Store in search of ideas. That's…
v3.0.1c - RELEASED 19 FEBRUARY 2026 IMPROVEMENTS: · Wolf eyes: Added small movements for naturalism (yearling and older). · Wolf eyes: Added pupil dilation based on general lighting level. · Refined some NPC pathfinding around a few dens. · IK: Improve foot positioning when holding a bite on other animals. · Save system: Avoid corrupting existing files in some situations where saving fails. · S…
v3.0.1c - PUBLIC BETA NOTE: Game saves ARE backward compatible with the last released version, so if you switch back to that version, you can continue playing any saves made in this beta. Multiplayer games are also backward-compatible with the last version, so you can play with those who have that version. BETA 9 IMPROVEMENTS: · Tower Fall: Show rainbow at waterfall only at appropriate times. ·…
In case you missed it: We released the Tower Fall DLC map two weeks ago! We love seeing all the comments and screenshots about the new map on Discord and Steam. We also love hearing how much folks like the Tower Fall achievement icons. As in the past, those were created by Jessie Clarey-Berthiaume (aka Loach, our community manager), and Rolin Serna, a longtime WolfQuest player and artist who cr…
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