Three weeks after being accidentally uploaded to Steam, the new Hunter: The Reckoning game is now official
A playable build briefly replaced RoboCop: Rogue City earlier this month
Teyon has officially announced that a new Hunter: The Reckoning game is in development.
Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish is set for release in 2027, and is based on the horror tabletop RPG set in the World of Darkness universe (which includes Vampire: The Masquerade), which has players fighting vampires, werewolves, and ghosts in a modern-day setting.
“You are in the real world – New York, so real city – and the whole thing is that you’ve been living in a lie,” game director Piotr Łatocha told the official Xbox Wire blog.
“As the player, you discover that there is a second world you never knew about, that has monsters lurking in the shadows. Some situations in the story lead you to a point of no return, where you need to pick up the fight and become the hunter or be prey. If you’ve watched the old Supernatural TV show, it’s kind of close to that fantasy as well.”
This isn’t the first game based on Hunter: The Reckoning. Most notably, there were three hack-and-slash console games based on the IP released by High Voltage Software in 2002 and 2003, the first of which can still be played on Xbox consoles via backwards compatibility.
While those games were more focused on straight action, however, Deathwish is being designed as more of an RPG.
“It’s a first-person game,” Łatocha said. “We expanded a bit on the RoboCop: Rogue City formula, but this is a slower game with some investigation, with some romance options, companion bonding, a branching story, very different side quests, and very different approaches to solving problems. I believe it’s the best way to approach a cool RPG game.”
Teyon‘s announcement was diluted slightly by the fact that the game was not only accidentally leaked earlier this month, but leaked in a playable form.
An update for the Steam version of Teyon’s RoboCop: Rogue City briefly removed the contents of the game including the ‘RoboCop.exe’ executable and replaced them with an entirely different build including a ‘Hunter – Win64 – Shipping.exe’ executable.
Players who downloaded the game were met with an extremely early build of an entirely different game, with a title screen saying Hunter: The Reckoning.
The early build appeared to show the player in the role of a police officer, with tasks asking them to investigate a shootout at a bar by speaking to the barman and a priest.
