The player cannot purchase weapons and must craft them using the materials scavenged in the world such as wood and stone. As the game is set in prehistoric times, the traditional gunplay and vehicle gameplay featured in the Far Cry series was removed, and the player can only get access to melee weapons such as spears, clubs, and ranged weapons such as bows and slings.
Far Cry Primal is an action-adventure game set in an open world environment and played from a first-person perspective.