Every Predator Game in Order: 12 of His Own Since 1987, None New Since 2020

The Predator has twelve games of his own. The first was an Activision action game for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 in 1987, the last was Predator: Hunting Grounds in April 2020. He has also turned up as a guest six times, from Call of Duty: Ghosts to Black Ops 6. Alien vs. Predator games are left out here, they live in our list of every Alien game.

No new Predator game has come out or been announced since 2020. The only one still running, Hunting Grounds, averaged 26 players on Steam over the last 30 days. Below is every game in order, what you can still buy, and whether Hunting Grounds is worth installing in 2026 if you want to be the hunter.

1987-1989: Dutch on eight home computers, and a NES game named after Schwarzenegger

The first game came out in 1987, the same year as the film. Activision published it, and the ZX Spectrum tape cost £9.99. You play Dutch, Schwarzenegger's character, running right through the jungle, picking up weapons on the way and trying to survive long enough to meet the hunter. By 1989 it had been ported to eight computers: Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Atari ST, MSX and Amiga.

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The NES version is its own story. In Japan Pack-In-Video released it on 10 March 1988 as "Schwarzenegger Predator", with the actor's name right in the title. Activision brought it to North America and Europe in April 1989. It was built on the MSX version, and the big difference is Big Mode: the sprites get huge, the screen scrolls on its own and the level ends in a fight with the Predator himself. Only the laser hurts him, the rifle, grenades and fists are for everyone else. The Japanese release orders the levels differently and opens with Big Mode.

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1991-1992: Predator 2, where Fox banned the blood, and an isometric take on Sega

Predator 2, based on the second film, was made by Arc Developments for Image Works. The ZX Spectrum version came out on 8 May 1991 at £10.99, with the PC and other computers around the same time. It is a shooting gallery: Lt. Mike Harrigan, Danny Glover's character, moves down the street while you aim at gang members. According to designer Paul Walker in The One magazine (December 1990), 20th Century Fox banned death and blood because it was a "kiddies game", so enemies you shoot just fall over and vanish. The same piece says Glover approved every Harrigan sprite himself and that development took about five months.

In 1992 Sega owners got a completely different Predator 2. Perfect 10 Productions made the Mega Drive game and Teeny Weeny Games did Master System and Game Gear, with Acclaim publishing under its Arena label. Same Harrigan, but now in an isometric view where he walks the streets himself. The European Mega Drive release was 29 October 1992. Reviewers were not kind: Mega gave it 28%, GameFan 72%. The music is by Matt Furniss.

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2004-2010: Concrete Jungle, the first game where you are the Predator, plus phones

For fifteen years the Predator was the enemy. In 2005 he became the hero. Predator: Concrete Jungle by Eurocom came out on PS2 and Xbox on 15 April in Europe and 26 April in the US, published by Vivendi. Grant Morrison, of DC comics fame, wrote the story. In a 1930 prologue a young Predator later known as Scarface hunts in the city and kills mob boss Bruno Borgia, but the hunt ends in disgrace and his own kind cast him out. A hundred years later he returns to the same city, now Neonopolis, to take back the technology that was stolen from him.

It shares a universe with Alien: the Yutani corporation runs things in the city, the city AI is called MOTHER like the Nostromo's computer, and Charles Bishop Weyland from the 2004 film gets a mention. The Predator's roar, according to Wikipedia, was mixed from a lion, a tiger, a leopard and a jaguar. Critics did not like it: 47 on Metacritic for PS2, 46 for Xbox. I still have a soft spot for it, because no big single-player Predator game has come to consoles since.

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Phones got the small stuff. In 2004 India's Indiagames put out a Java game called Predator. In 2010, around the release of the film Predators, four arrived at once: Predators by Angry Mob Games for iPhone (1 July, $2.99, 70 on Metacritic, the best score any Predator game has there), another Predators from Gameloft, Predators: The Great Hunt and a browser game, Predator or Prey, from 20th Century Fox itself. In the Angry Mob game you are the Predator again, hunting armed humans. It reached Android only in November 2012.

2014-2018: guest spots in Call of Duty and Mortal Kombat X, a hunt in Bolivia, and VR arcades

Call of Duty was first to invite him. In the Devastation DLC for Ghosts (Xbox on 3 April 2014, PlayStation and PC on 8 May) the Ruins map had a Field Order that turned you into the Predator for a while. A year later he was a full fighter in Mortal Kombat X: Kombat Pack owners got him on 7 July 2015, everyone else on 14 July. He is still on sale on Steam for $1.49, with 91% of 164 reviews positive. Next to him sits the Predator/Prey Pack for $1.19: Commando Johnny Cage, an Infrared Scorpion skin and Jax dressed up as Dillon from the 1987 film.

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In 2015 Plarium's browser game Soldiers Inc. ran an Alien and Predator event, reportedly for about three months. Then in December 2017, for the film's 30th anniversary, the Predator came to Ghost Recon Wildlands. From 14 December a free mission had your squad tracking him through the Bolivian jungle, and the press at the time called it the hardest fight in the game. Beating him earned a mask with his vision mode.

In December 2020, when Ubisoft's licence for the character ran out, the Predator mission was pulled from Wildlands, as VGC reported. Then on 6 August 2026, for Ghost Recon's 25th anniversary, Ubisoft brought the event back together with a free mission called Last Rites. The same day a Predator Premium Pack appeared on Steam for $11.99: 13 clothing items including the wristblades, plus two weapons. We cover the rest of the games that carry Tom Clancy's name in a separate piece.

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The rarest game on the list is Predator VR. FoxNext VR Studio and Phosphor Studios made it, showed it at IAAPA in November 2018 and released it only to virtual reality arcades. Its Steam page says exactly that: look for it exclusively in VR arcades. There was never a home version, and the Steam page has two reviews in total.

2020: Hunting Grounds, four against one, and Schwarzenegger back as Dutch

Predator: Hunting Grounds by IllFonic launched on 24 April 2020 on PS4 and PC, published by Sony. On PC it was Epic Games Store only at first, with the Steam release following on 29 April 2021. If you played Friday the 13th: The Game from the same studio, you know the idea: four soldiers run missions in the jungle while a fifth player hunts them as the Predator. It was also the first game where you could play a female Yautja.

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A month in, on 26 May 2020, a paid DLC added Dutch 2025, and the PlayStation Blog confirmed Schwarzenegger voiced him himself. September brought Dutch '87, again with his voice. Later Alice Braga returned as Isabelle from Predators, Jake Busey came back too, and after the film Prey the game picked up Raphael Adolini's flintlock pistol and the Feral Predator.

Critics were lukewarm: 56 on Metacritic for PS4 and 62 for PC, IGN gave it 5 out of 10, Game Informer 7.25. Players are kinder, with 76% of 5,751 Steam reviews positive. PS5 and Xbox Series versions arrived on 1 October 2024 with the Feral Predator in the standard edition, and a PS5 disc followed in November.

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2021-2026: Fortnite, Black Ops 6 and Dek from Predator: Badlands

On 20 January 2021 the Predator joined the Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 5 battle pass. You unlocked him through the Jungle Hunter quests, which also gave a Bio-helmet Online emote and a Heat Vision Hunter spray, and before that he roamed the map as an enemy around Stealthy Stronghold. The outfit was a reward from that season's pass.

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He came back to Call of Duty 11 years after Ghosts. From 9 October 2025, Black Ops 6 and Warzone ran The Haunting event with the Predator in the battle pass. We know the pass contents from Sportskeeda and MP1st, the Call of Duty blog would not load when we checked. A bundle with Dek from Predator: Badlands was sold there too. In Fortnite, Dek reportedly appears in the Fortnitemares 2026 trailer, but we have not seen a store date yet.

Nothing is confirmed for Dead by Daylight: it has the Alien and Ripley, while a Predator chapter is only a leak rumour. The "PREDATOR: The Game (2026)" video that did the rounds on YouTube was a fan concept and has been taken down. As of 18 October 2026, nobody has announced a new Predator game.

Is Hunting Grounds still alive in 2026, and can you find a match?

The servers are up, the game is on sale, and it still gets content: Steam saw the Jotun Predator skin on 20 January 2026 and the Father Predator on 28 April. Since 25 June 2026 Balor Games has managed IllFonic's back catalogue, Hunting Grounds included, and Steam now lists Balor as publisher. IllFonic has not closed, and Balor says it keeps making content.

It is quiet, though. On Steam the average over the last 30 days is 26 players, and on Sunday evening, 18 October, there were 49. The record of 1,491 was set in September 2022. Steam is not the whole player base: there are PlayStation, Xbox and Epic players too, and PC and PlayStation have had crossplay since launch.

At $19.99 it is still the only game where you can stalk people as the Predator. I would just line up a group of friends before buying it.

Every Predator game: the table

The first twelve rows are his own games, the last six are guest appearances. Alien vs. Predator games are not included.

Review scores and output by decade

The scores are modest, to put it politely. The top one belongs to a $3 iPhone game, and Hunting Grounds on PS5 sits at 66 on just four reviews. The 1987-1992 games have no Metacritic pages at all, only magazine scores from back then.

The decades show how his role changed. Until 2010 he only had games of his own, two per decade. The 2010s brought more, but nearly all of them for phones, and the 2020s so far have one game of his own and two big guest spots in Fortnite and Call of Duty.

Where to start

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