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Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is a open world, extraction shooter and multiplayer game
developed and published by Crytek.
Released on August 27th 2019 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine.
It has received 248,220 reviews of which 181,110 were positive and 67,110 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.2 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 11.99€ on Steam with a 60% discount, but you can find it for 8.88€ on K4G.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64 bit
- Processor: Intel CPU 7th Gen 7700 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT, with a minimum of 4GB of VRAM
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 75 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible audio card
- Additional Notes: Best experienced with headphones and on a SSD drive
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I absolutely love this game; I’ve been playing since 2019 and have logged nearly 4,200 hours, unlocking all the barracks, characters, and weapons. I was handed a two-week ban for a trivial reason: simply climbing onto the roof inside a house. They claimed I was "exploiting," but in my view, it was just a way of climbing up—going from a table to the upper level. They should have issued a warning or a ban of one, two, or three days; a two-week ban is just unfair.Especially since real hackers are still around while I was the one who got banned.
At first, I absolutely despised this game. I died in what felt like 80% of my matches and questioned every life decision that led me to buying it. Turns out… Hunt isn’t a game you play to get the bounty. If that’s your only goal, you’re probably going to have a bad time (or become one with a bush). The game finally clicked when I stopped caring so much about extracting and started hunting other players instead. Win or lose, every fight became fun. Also, stop babying your leveled hunter. They’re going to die eventually. Send them into battle, come out on top… or get impaled by a Bomb Lance or domed by a Berthier 1892. Either way, you’ll survive emotionally. Hunt rewards patience, learning your own playstyle, and accepting that sometimes it’s not your day. 10/10. I hated it until I loved it.
Hunt: Showdown is the only game where you can spend 25 minutes playing like a tactical genius, outsmart two teams, banish the boss, carefully scan every window... and then get instantly headshot by a guy hiding in a bush whose heart rate never exceeded 40 BPM. Was I mad? Absolutely. Was it my fault? Also absolutely The PvE monsters exist purely to announce your terrible decisions to every human within a three-mile radius. Crows are government spies. Horses are paid actors. Ducks have a personal vendetta against stealth. One bullet can end your career, but that goes both ways. The sound design deserves criminal levels of praise. I now know the difference between someone walking on wood, mud, metal, and glass. Hunt is brutally unforgiving, but it's almost never unfair. When you lose, you usually learn something. When you win, you feel like you've outsmarted an entire lobby. 10/10. Would willingly lose another level-50 hunter because I thought, "One more peek won't hurt."
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!
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is currently priced at 11.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Hunt: Showdown 1896 is currently available at a 60% discount. You can purchase it for 11.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Hunt: Showdown 1896 received 181,110 positive votes out of a total of 248,220 achieving a rating of 7.24.
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Hunt: Showdown 1896 was developed and published by Crytek.
Yes, Hunt: Showdown 1896 is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Hunt: Showdown 1896 is not playable on MacOS.
No, Hunt: Showdown 1896 is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Hunt: Showdown 1896 is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
Yes, Hunt: Showdown 1896 is playable on Steam Machine, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
No, Hunt: Showdown 1896 does not support VR.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is a multi-player game.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 features PvP mode where you can test your skills against other players.
Yes, there are 82 DLCs available for Hunt: Showdown 1896. Explore additional content available for Hunt: Showdown 1896 on Steam.
No, Hunt: Showdown 1896 does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Yes, Hunt: Showdown 1896 supports Remote Play on Tablet and Remote Play on TV. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
No, Hunt: Showdown 1896 does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Hunt: Showdown 1896.
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Game modes
Multiplayer
Online players
6,300
Developer
Crytek
Publisher
Crytek
Release
27 Aug 2019
Platforms
Remote Play
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