A cooperative "comedy action" shooter will soon be launching on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via the Epic Games Store. Titled Huntdown, the game will be made available on the aforementioned platforms by May 12 according to an announcement made by publisher Coffee Stain Publishing. Coffee Stain, who is running publishing this time around, is the company behind sandbox building game Satisfactory and the comedic, open-world game Goat Simulator. Easy Trigger Games is the developer behind Huntdown.
Huntdown is set in an 80's inspired cyberpunk-esque landscape, reminiscent of the original Blade Runner and Robocop films. It's a grimy, alternate future filled with flashy neon lights and rundown megacities and ghettos, but still is filled with homages to the 80’s aesthetic. The game’s trailer starts off by saying that “When the citizens are in trouble, they call the authorities. When the authorities are in trouble, they call the bounty hunters”.
Huntdown's three playable protagonists are then introduced in a humorous fashion: Anna Conda (“she knows the meaning of life, that’s why she can take it away so easily”), John Sawyer (“he’s been a man since he was a boy”), and Mow Man (“he knows everything, except mercy").
Players will have the option to play solo or cooperate with their friends to exterminate and eradicate the crime-ridden streets of the future. Huntdown plays out like your usual side-scrolling shooters of yesterday (its art style is very reminiscent of the Metal Slug franchise) with dozens of enemies to mow down with a variety of weapons. Flamethrowers, machine guns, cars, and even playing baseball with a grenade are ways for players to blast away these 16-bit bad guys. Multiple bosses can be found in Huntdown, with a variety of different areas to discover and clear, and loot and weapons to be unlocked. It also looks like each of the three characters has skills that are unique to them (like Anna Conda running over enemies with her Countach look-a-alike car).
Huntdown will be released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via the Epic Games Store on May 12. A Steam release will follow once the year-long Epic Games Store exclusivity deal runs out on May 12, 2021.
