2019 video game

Hunt: Showdown 1896 (formerly known as simply Hunt: Showdown) is a first-person extraction shooter video game by Crytek. It was launched on Steam in early access on 22 February 2018 and for Xbox Game Preview on 29 May 2019. The full release of the game launched on 27 August 2019 for Microsoft Windows, it was also released on Xbox One on 19 September 2019 and PlayStation 4 on 18 February 2020. In the game, the player assumes the role of a bounty hunter who tries to kill mythical monsters in order to claim their bounties and survive long enough against other bounty hunters to reach an extraction point.

Hunt: Showdown was originally in development at Crytek USA, who wished to create a spiritual successor to Darksiders - a video game series developed by their predecessor, Vigil Games - under the title Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age. It was envisioned to be a cooperative multiplayer game. After the initial announcement in June 2014, Crytek USA was shut down due to financial issues, and the development was brought to the Crytek headquarters in Germany. The game, under the new title Hunt: Showdown, was re-announced in May 2017 and became a competitive multiplayer game in which players need to combat other players and enemies controlled by artificial intelligence in a large map that resembles an open world. The game received generally-positive reviews upon release and was praised for its innovative gameplay-loop.

An updated version of the game for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S was released on 15 August 2024 under the title Hunt: Showdown 1896. Following the update, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game were delisted.

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