Predator: Hunting Grounds

Intense overall intensity
Highest flag: Violence — graphic & gore
HorrorSci-fiShooter

What's in it

Violence graphic & gore
High

Sustained firearm and melee combat between human soldiers and an alien hunter, with blood spray and on-screen deaths on both sides.

Mutilation / body horror player performs it
High

The Predator player can perform finishing moves that decapitate enemies and tear out spine-and-skull trophies.

Language strong
High

Combat dialogue and character banter include strong profanity.

Substances depicted
Moderate

Missions revolve around a drug cartel, with a drug lord target and drug shipments to sabotage, though the player never uses drugs.

Spending loot boxes
Moderate

A randomized 'Field Locker' loot-crate system dispenses cosmetic and weapon skins, and additional characters are sold as paid DLC.

Dark themes mild
Low

The Predator collects human 'trophies' and hunts the team for sport as the core premise.

Horror & psychological spooky
Low

Tense stalking atmosphere as an invisible Predator hunts the team through the jungle.

Crime & lawlessness crime depicted
Low

Enemy forces are a criminal cartel and drug operation that the team fights against.

Spending pressure optional
Low

Purchases and DLC are optional and can be earned through play; no daily-login or pay-to-win gating.

Who can reach your kid

Voice chatReal-money spending

What it is

Predator: Hunting Grounds is an online multiplayer action game where four players form a special-forces team completing military objectives in a jungle while one player controls the alien Predator hunting them. Gameplay centers on realistic gunfights against human enemies with heavy blood, plus the Predator's brutal signature kills — decapitations, skull-and-spine trophy rips, and skinning — making gore a defining feature. The mission backdrop involves a drug cartel and its leader. There is proximity/team voice chat with other players, randomized loot crates (Field Lockers) for cosmetics that can also be purchased, and additional characters sold as paid DLC. It contains strong language throughout.

How it's framed

The game frames the violence as pulpy action-movie spectacle drawn from the Predator films, treating the hunter's grisly trophy kills as an over-the-top reward mechanic rather than something somber, and casts the human enemies as an armed cartel to be eliminated.

Details

Developer
IllFonic
Publisher
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Released
2020-04-24
Metacritic 55critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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