What state does "Far Cry 5" take place in?

“Far Cry 5” takes place in Montana, chiefly in the fictional Hope County. Ubisoft designed the game around the state’s mountainous terrain, forests, rivers, ranches, and wide-open rural landscapes.

The story follows a junior sheriff’s deputy confronting Project at Eden’s Gate, an armed doomsday cult led by Joseph Seed. Although Hope County is fictional, its geography and atmosphere draw heavily from real Montana, particularly the state’s northwestern wilderness and small communities.

Montana was chosen partly because its frontier identity fit the game’s themes of isolation, self-reliance, firearms, and distrust of outside authority. The setting is not meant to portray a specific real Montana county, and the cult and its takeover are fictional. Players sometimes confuse the location with other rural American settings in the Far Cry series, but Montana is the canonical state for Far Cry 5.