Two hours of Far Cry Primal gameplay: hunting, beast mastery, and tribal war

When Ubisoft Montreal published two solid hours of Far Cry Primal gameplay on its YouTube channel, it answered every open question about the Stone Age experiment — and the full video is preserved below.

Across the 120 minutes, four members of the development team — Julien Daunais (testing), Kevin Shortt (head writer), and Mathias Ahrens and Ariadne Macgillivray (community) — play through the PlayStation 4 build, narrating the mechanics, options, and quirks that set the prehistoric entry apart from every other Far Cry.

The demo covers the single-player campaign only: the studio had just confirmed the game would skip cooperative multiplayer entirely to sharpen the solo experience. The standout segments show beast mastery in action — riding a saber-toothed cat into a fight — and the full-scale battles between rival tribes that structure the campaign’s war.

If two hours of it hooks you, Far Cry Primal delivers the rest of the experience.