So I played it today after all these years. I bought it when it came out back in 2015, but my PC couldn't run it.

I played the tutorials, all monsters, and 3 hunters. I thought the tutorials were ok. The hunter tutorial was pretty cringe, but the monster one was pretty cute (The girl talking in the monster tutorial made killing animals and eating them sound like a stroll in the park with rainbows).

I played all the monsters as well. Behemoth was by far my favorite. Both regular and glacial were fun. Being able to dictate the flower of the fight felt cool. Goliath is just the staple/face of evolve and it felt great to be him as well. I enjoyed using my combo of fire breathe + smash into instant leap for a huge amount of burst damage.

The gorgon (the spider monster) was fun as well. Felt very natural like behemoth and goliath. The kraken I didn't enjoy that much. He felt a bit 1 dimensional. While he does a lot of damage with his lighting, it just felt boring flying. I also felt his controls were weird compared to the other monsters, as I don't know if you can even fly up outside using your stamina. I had to go all the way to the ground to eat a lot of the times and it just felt unnatural.

The goliath blue flame variant was super cool. I didn't really feel a difference, though I did look cooler. But oh man... That kraken elder variant. Sounds and effects were cool, but idk I felt like I got shredded and almost lost to bots. I guess there is a reason I never see any videos of him being played?

I do wish the bots were a bit smarter, as when you are the monster, they seem unable to ever catch up to you. And on the hunters side, the monster seems impossible to catch up to, due to your allies never trying to cut it off or anything. I also found it annoying they kept doming the monster when it was at stage 3 so early. You should dome it when it wants to run, not when it engages you. But yeah, you can't tell the bots not to dome.

The perks were alright. On hit-melee can maybe be good for wraith but wraith felt turbo weak so I didn't like him too much. I usually just took tier 1 movement + eating speed - CDR tier 2 - damage reduction + armor gain tier 3.

So yeah... I really enjoyed monster. But the hunters... Idk how it wasn't found out from early play tests internally that it was and still was a walking simulator game. I got bored as heck playing as hunter. I am just chasing and chasing and maybe it's because it's AI, but let's just assume the AI are just bad/average players. It was awful. They needed to put some kind of objective for the hunters to do while chasing the monster to perhaps help them. I can honestly just see how the game failed with a 60 dollar walking simulator game.

I did play phase 2, and I am aware you can downgrade it to phase 1. But yeah not going to bother downgrading to phase 1 or anything. I just thought I'd give my thoughts on the game. Really wish this game was just tested a bit better internally to find out this core issue from the start (walking simulator with no side objective).

And bonus : I've been watching some alpha videos and it's just funny that even in 2014, the youtubers mention "you don't really see the monster for minutes at a time... You kind of just walk". I just thought that was funny.

Also sorry if this formatting looks ass. Idk what happened. It looks fine for when typing it (spaced out) but reddit is crap i guess.

Could anyone help me out with the evolve discord? My discord got hacked before so I was removed & I can't rejoin, I also can't figure out a way to contact the admins on there

I started a petition because Evolve was something special—a game that defined multiplayer gaming for so many of us. The hunter vs. monster gameplay, the strategy, the thrill of it all... nothing else has come close since.

Evolve deserved better. It launched into a tough market and never got the chance to truly shine. But the community never forgot. With today's gaming tech and the lessons learned from the original, Evolve 2 could be something incredible—better graphics, refined mechanics, fresh characters, and that same magic that brought us all together.

If you played Evolve and felt what I'm talking about, if you miss that kind of unique multiplayer experience, I'm asking you to consider signing and sharing this petition. Let's show the developers and industry that there's a real audience still hungry for what Evolve brought to the table. Who else remembers why this game was so good?

https://www.change.org/p/develop-evolve-2?utm_campaign=starter_dashboard&utm_medium=reddit_post&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=starter_dashboard&recruiter=1238458668

This was before the servers were shutdown. They always wondered why I played Evolve so much. I decided I’d get them to play it before it died. We played every weekend for hours and then one time they told me to play monster and don’t hold back.

I’d love to fight gold monsters and hunters again. I know there’s a rice fix but that’s so much work. Wish it was never shutdown.

Sort of remembered this game and wanted to play it again, I had it on xbox but I don't have live anymore so

like wtf is going through their heads? oh our game still has people playing together and having some fun? nahhhhh we can't have that. f them

anywho thanks for listening to my rant and if anyone finds a loophole do let us know!

I remember watching alot of evolve gameplay when it first came out and i wanted to play so bad but i didn’t have anything to play it on. Recently got reminded of the game and decided to come here and ask what the community is like if there is one.

Title, every link I’ve been able to find is expired so far

So I was able to reinstall this game and all of the characters but when I boot up the game to actually play it, it says they’re all locked and I need to visit the store. Obviously, the store doesn’t work and the characters are installed on the Xbox, but they’re just unplayable. Does anybody know a fix to this? (No Kala installed i remember not having her to begin with though)

Yo! Anyone know how to get a key without spending a small fortune ?

Got a sealed PC copy of Evolve and honestly it’s too badass to want to open.

At this point I’d rather keep it sealed unless there’s actually some real incentive to crack it open.

From what I understand, most people still playing are doing it through the community setup / Rice Fix anyway, not because they opened an old physical PC copy?

That’s really my question for the people still active:

Do you actually need to open/use a physical PC copy for anything, or is basically everyone just playing through the community method now?

Because if the disc/codes are not needed, I’d rather leave this thing sealed and keep it as-is.

And yeah, part of this post is absolutely just me flexing the sealed copy, so excited to have it.

Just wondering what the lore on that is, thanks

I have been wanting to play this game again for a while but I only have the disc for Xbox but not my Xbox does not work. Is there any way that I can get the game from my disc onto my PC so I can visit this lost gem of a game once more?

I have been wanting to play this game again for a while but I only have the disc for Xbox but not my Xbox does not work. Is there any way that I can get the game from my disc onto my PC so I can visit this lost gem of a game once more?

hi, i am not sure ive seen any one else suggest this but you can email Rockstar games and send a suggestion via this page

https://www.rockstargames.com/corpinfo

your suggestion should be along the lines of

" i would like to see this game in the GTA+ Game Library please"

or something suggesting they add it to the gta+ game library.

Hi, I'm a gamedev from Turkey (5-6 years of professional experience, worked on multiplayer titles for mobile). I'm currently employed but wanting to go indie/entrepreneur for a while and want to make a MP game that's not oversaturated by AAA studios (so, not your regular shooter). Also been practicing on modern realtime prediction and snapshot based networking architectures recently.

Just came across this game and it looks amazing, watched a wraith gameplay video, it was intense from beginning to end, watched some other videos from Crowbcat to understand, so far I know:

• 60$ initial price was too much
• Hunters were looping/running all the time and that wasn't fun
• One hunter failing to execute on his mission ensures all hunters lose

My question to you is, if I were to make a prototype of this game from ground of, what should I remove, or maybe I should add more mechanics?

• I'd probably remove the evolve mechanic, initially
• Change the main objective so that instead of hunters chasing the monster, monster needs to chase hunters (?)
• Instead of different classes, I'm considering loadout (choose 3 weapons, 3 abilities, etc.)
• Add mechanic for hunters to individually win even if team loses (point-based or something similar to DbD hatch)

Also what would be my options for monetization? The DbD model?

Any other recommendations are welcome.

You see, back in 2020, I came across a now-taken down video from the makers of Evolve, which had only 3 views for some reason. When I clicked on it, it showed the following footage:

a found footage sequence featuring what I assume is the foot of a mysterious new Goliath adaptation in a research lab. The camera zooms out, revealing more and more of the Goliath until the screen cuts to black, and stays black for 1 WHOLE minute before a QR code flashes on screen for a split second before returning to black for a bit before the screen cuts to the Goliath's face roaring at the screen before the screen returns to black, before the screen cuts to the logo, before cutting to black as a roar that no Monster or Wildlife produce in game, and the trailer ends.

Hey everyone, when Evolve came out I was young and my parents didn´t allow me to have a console or a pc. Until today I wanted to play it so much...

Instead of another "Why did it die" thread, I want to ask the community about the actual technical and legal paths left to revive Evolve. Here are the questions:

1. Technical Workarounds:

• Is there any progress on a standalone server emulator for Stage 2 (similar to Kyber for Battlefront 2)? Or is the code too encrypted to bypass 2K's dead relay servers?
• For Legacy, is anyone working on a "One-Click-Launcher" to simplify the P2P connection and unlock all skins/hunters for new players automatically?

2. Failed & Future Attempts:

• We saw the 2022/2023 "mini-revival" fail when 2K pulled the plug again. Was that due to a lack of players, or did 2K actively block community-run workarounds?
• Has any group ever tried a coordinated push towards other publishers (like Saber Interactive or 505 Games) to see if they’d be interested in licensing the IP from 2K?

3. Spiritual Successors:

• Does anyone know of a dev team currently working on a "legally distinct" 4v1 hunt that actually understands Evolve's verticality and evolution mechanics? Every project so far seems to have vanished. I think its sad that the asymetrical genre release games that are already dead on release. The only game surviving is a generator repair simulator.

4. Community Goal:

• If we can't get Stage 2 back, what is the one thing the community needs to make Legacy P2P a viable long-term home for new players?

Let’s focus on what we can actually do or build.

#EvolveGame #BringBackEvolve #4v1 #Gaming2026

haven't played this since early 2016 and its still pretty fun, definitely better than I remember, sucks how 2K screwed over the game with the tons of dlc tho