Hunt: Showdown 1896
In Hunt: Showdown 1896 you are a late 19th century bounty hunter. Alone or in a team of three, you follow clues to a monster's lair and kill it. From that moment every rival on the map can see where you are, and you have to live long enough to reach an exit.
Read more
The game started out as co-op. In 2014 Crytek USA, which had hired many former employees of Vigil Games, the Darksiders studio, announced Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age for four players. That same year development moved to Germany, and in 2017 Hunt returned as a competitive game.
Sound gives you away here. A reviewer noted that flocks of crows, creaking boardwalks and wounded horses all signal your presence.
In August 2024 Crytek upgraded the engine, added a new mountain map and renamed the game Hunt: Showdown 1896. Players met the new interface and stuttering with a wave of negative reviews.
At its 2019 release critics praised the hunting loop itself, though one reviewer found that with few maps and guns the game grew repetitive. Players leave 74% positive out of 214,579 reviews, and critics give it 80 on Metacritic. In our Recommended Score it ranks 3,168 of 4,736 games.
Liked it? Try GTFO, a co-op shooter where prisoners fight their way through a facility full of monsters, and DayZ, a post-plague survival game where the next person you meet may turn out to be an ally or a killer.
Major updates
🩸Bound by Blood ❤️| Out Now! · Oct 2026All 5
System requirements
Minimum GTX 1650 SUPER · 8 GB RAM · 75 GBiSteam Deck PlayableMin & recommended
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 10 64 bit | Windows 11 64 bit |
| Processor | Intel CPU 7th Gen 7700 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 | Intel CPU 8th Gen 8700 / AMD Ryzen 5 2700 |
| Memory | 8 GB | 12 GB |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT, with a minimum of 4GB of VRAM | RTX 2060 Super / AMD 6600 XT, with a minimum of 8GB of VRAM |
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Storage | 75 GB | 75 GB |
From the game’s Steam store page.
