Hunt: Showdown 1896
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Realistic period firearms, crossbows, and melee against human bounty hunters and grotesque monsters, with heavy blood spray and gunshot wounds.
A grim, plague-ridden 1890s bayou steeped in death, decay, corpses, and body horror as the pervasive tone.
Frightening undead grunts, screaming immolators, and boss creatures like the Butcher and Spider stalk dark, atmospheric maps.
Monsters are banished through a fiery supernatural ritual, and the world's lore centers on demonic, hellish corruption.
Optional real-money cosmetic hunter and weapon skins are sold outside core gameplay.
Packs of supernatural hounds and other beast enemies are fought and killed as a standard combat mechanic.
Gritty hunter and NPC voice lines carry occasional mild expletives.
A seasonal battle pass with cosmetic tiers exists but is optional and not required to play.
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What it is
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is a first-person extraction shooter set in a supernatural, plague-ridden American frontier of the 1890s. Alone or in a small team, you track and kill monstrous bosses, claim their bounty, and try to escape the map while up to a dozen other real players hunt you for the same prize. Combat is tense and lethal, using period firearms, crossbows, and melee weapons against both grotesque creatures and human opponents, with realistic blood and a single well-placed shot often ending a life. The world leans into gothic horror — undead enemies, hellish monsters, and a fiery ritual used to banish bosses — wrapped in a bleak atmosphere of death and corruption. It is heavily multiplayer, with proximity voice and text that put you in contact with strangers, and it sells optional cosmetic items and seasonal battle passes with real money.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as brutal but earned survival: killing is the whole loop, rewarded with bounties and gear, and death is punishing and permanent for your hunter. Its horror and demonic imagery serve mood and setting rather than any endorsement, presenting a grim, unforgiving frontier where monsters and rival hunters are equally deadly.
Details
- Developer
- Crytek
- Publisher
- Crytek
- Released
- Aug 27, 2019
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