Hunt: Showdown
Savage, nightmarish monsters roam the Louisiana swamps, and you are part of a group of rugged bounty hunters bound to rid the world of their ghastly presence. Banish these creatures from our world, and you will be paid generously—and given the chance to buy more gruesome and powerful weapons. Fail, and death will strip you of both character and gear. Your experience, however, remains in your pool of hunters—called your Bloodline—always. HIGH RISK, HIGH REWARD, HIGH TENSION Hunt's Quick Play game mode offers a shorter match, during which up to ten individual players race to scavenge gear and find and close four rifts as they compete for a diminishing pool of bounty. First Hunter to the final rift absorbs its energy, but must survive the final count down to complete the mission—while the other Hunters attempt to take them out and take the prize for themselves. When the timer runs out the winner keeps their Hunter, while the rest perish.
Game Discussion
Steam User 236
The game is running perfectly on Proton, for all fellow Linux users!
Steam User 67
Once it gets its hook in you, it's hard to pull away. Huge learning curve, but just know some days the hunt taketh, and others the hunt giveth. Even after 1000+ hours, you're still gonna die alot.
Steam User 79
Been playing for 3,000 hours at this point. And at a very high level for at least the last 1,500 of those hours.
I don't think there has ever been a better time for a new player to get into Hunt. The game is the most balanced it's ever been. The game is the deepest in terms of knowledge and tactics that its ever been, too.
I see lots of comments here about how much better hunt "used" to be, but to me they just read as hopeless nostalgia from a time when the reviewer was new at the game and everything was exciting and novel. I don't like using the word "objectively" in reviews, but I do think objectively that most of the criticisms of the game that you see recently posted are either things that:
A) have ALWAYS been criticisms going back to at least 2020 (ask me how I know, I was there!)
B) Are mitigated by just knowing more about the game
C) Show people are just salty that their weaponry/strategies are finally receiving a long overdue balance change.
I would absolutely encourage anybody curious about this game to pick it up. It's one of a small handful of truly unique shooters you can play these days.
There are still issues with the game, of course. However:
A) Most of these issues don't make themselves apparent until high-level play
B) Problematic strategies are annoying but generally unpopular to play
C) The game is receiving lots of balance and bugfixing attention constantly.
Get it!
Steam User 45
I always wash dishes while waiting for a game to start, so with the amount of deaths i keep getting, i have never felt more productive ever.
Steam User 52
This game is hard as balls. A lot of the people playing it have been playing it for years. The objective and gameplay is straight forward enough but there's lots of small details and things to learn going into it that it can be very overwhelming. That's why it's good though. Push through, do some learning, look up guides if you feel stuck, and you'll realise why this game sticks around. There's nothing else like it, genuinely. I've tried. Nothing comes close to the feel of these cowboy guns and shady hunters shooting at you, mixed with the occult shambling zombies and rotten beasts.
The 'extraction' element scares a lot of people off but I don't think it should. This isn't Tarkov or Arc Raiders with quests and a stash to micromanage. You win? You get money. Use money to buy guns and tools. Go back in. Die? Thats ok just buy more gun. Run out of money? Jokes on you that's actually the fun part; climbing back up to prosperity using nothing but ♥♥♥♥♥♥ single shot breech-loaded rifles and railroad hammers. It's like a roguelike against players. If the game seems to even slightly interest you I beg that you give it a shot.
Steam User 67
GOAT of extraction shooters. Atmosphere 5/5, Soundtrack 5/5, Immersion 5/5, Gameplay 5/5.
Only downside: you’ll run into the occasional cheater or smurf or crash in midgame sometimes, otherwise perfection.
Steam User 71
Context: 40+ years old, casual solo player, have a family, want competitive but not hardcore play.
I'm having a lot of fun playing this game. Not sure about the issues people say, I read that you cannot play this game solo which I do, and a lot of other things. I didn't buy this game because of that reviews, but I bought it on steam sale and I'm having a lot of fun. Of couse, I won't be a six start player (the best rank you can get), of course this game with friends is better (like most of the games out there), but this game is super funny and nothing like I played before.
I wanted some competitive, but I'm old and casual enough to not enjoy games like CS2 where any teenager is going to kick my ass, but here? You can outsmart a lot of plays and players, and I'm failing at it but having fun because I can learn from my mistakes so everyday I play a bit better. No insane aim, just learn from playing and outsmarting.
One step at a time, but this game is so much fun. Don't let other review discourage you if you want to try, for me it's super funny and I'll play it much more.
For the record, I bought it with some DLCs because I liked the Hunters, but they are cosmetic, no advantage at all while playing the game, so do it if you want the looks, because they don't make any difference and you can purchase skins with in game currency and of course with real life currency at any time
But, it must be said, be ready for a terrible UX in the menu. You get used to it, but makes you wonder how someone can make that.... it's just counter intuitive in some places