Hunt: Showdown 1896

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• Not recommended Posted June 7, 2025 on Steam What sucks to see is more and more of the original team be removed from the credits as it goes through iterations. Credit your existing and previous staff properly
• Not recommended Posted November 14, 2025 on Steam I love this game. I think it's very creative and unique with some of the most fun and best designed gameplay I've ever experienced in a shooter. I recommend it. The reason this review is negative is the matchmaking. I'm okay at this game skillwise. I play it very casually. I'm a four star (out of six). I have just over 600 hours at this time. And every single match, I'm playing against 6 stars, which represent about the top 2% of the game. I'm not going to complain about how annoying and lame their playstyle is. It works and they're very good at it. I just don't want to play against them, and I shouldn't have to. I should not see a prestige 100 solo sniper every other round. I should not regularly have to play against people with 10 times my playtime. And it's not just me, one of my friends is a 2 star and she has the same problem. I'm all for skill-based matchmaking, but this is not it. I would love to see this changed.
• Not recommended Posted November 18, 2025 on Steam Hunt showdown is such a good fun game that I wish I could recommend. The only problem is the MMR system. They don't have enough players to fully implement so those who aren't used to the game have to suffer. It doesn't matter if you're ranked as a 2star you WILL be matched with a 6star lobby if they determine there aren't enough players (which there usually isn't). Once the MMR system is fixed or they find a proper way to onboard new players, the game will be a blast. Until then, prepare to be shoot through cracks you didn't even know existed with long ammo.
• Not recommended Posted April 1, 2026 on Steam I’ve put a lot of time into Hunt: Showdown 1896 and have been in the 6-star MMR lobbies for a while now, so this isn’t coming from a casual player. I genuinely used to enjoy this game—but I can’t recommend it anymore. At high MMR, cheating is out of control. I’m not talking about the occasional suspicious death—I mean repeated encounters with players landing impossible shots, tracking through walls, and wiping teams with zero information. What makes it worse is the lack of response. The game keeps getting updates, but they’re mostly cosmetic. New skins are added regularly, yet obvious cheaters remain in the game for long periods. After reporting multiple players and seeing no meaningful action, I finally uninstalled. There’s no point grinding to high rank when matches feel compromised. This game has an amazing concept and atmosphere, but right now it’s being held back by a failure to deal with cheating. Until that changes, it’s hard to recommend—especially for competitive players.
• Not recommended Posted October 8, 2025 on Steam Hunt: Showdown used to be my absolute favorite game. The atmosphere, the tension, the sound design — it was pure magic. But Crytek has completely driven it into the ground. EU servers are full of ping abusers from Russia or China teleporting around with 150+ ms, landing headshots through desync while you die behind cover. The netcode is terrible, and it’s been like this for years with no fix in sight. The meta never changes — same guns every match (Dolch, Mosin, shotgun spam) — and anyone trying something different just gets punished. Add to that the endless camping and corner sitting, and the original purpose of the game — hunting bounties in tense, dynamic fights — is totally gone. And don’t even get me started on the events — it’s the same copy-paste grind every time: farm points, unlock the same recycled skins, finish a shallow battle pass, and then wait for the next one. Nothing fresh, nothing creative, just another cash grab. To make it worse, the same old bugs have been in the game for years — and every time a new event drops, they magically come back again. It honestly feels like nothing ever gets properly fixed. It’s heartbreaking to watch a once brilliant game decay because the developers stopped caring. No real updates, no fixes, just overpriced DLCs and empty promises. This used to be a masterpiece. Now it’s just frustration and wasted potential. Crytek took something unique and let it rot — they killed their own game. Not recommended.
• Not recommended Posted June 16, 2025 on Steam It's a love/hate relationship for me. The gunplay in this game is superior to anything else I've played before. Game itself looks amazing and is oozing with a grim and corrupted, wild west atmosphere. It can feel punishing when you loose your character when you die, but man, it feels GOOD, when you win. But here comes the hate part, which is like 99% focused on the actions of the Devs. For example the big old (new), unfamous UI redesign, which was a MASSIVE failure, that they refused to acknowledge at first, boasting how great it was... It felt like no one, literally no one, tested the changes for the PC version before the launch. They remade it for consoles and literally showed the middle finger towards the PC players with a smile on their face. Or the fact that you can not see the whole lobby after the game, except for the players that you killed / killed you. Their explanation? "Privacy issues"... like what? The only reason they do this, is so you can't report ppl that play with cheaters or die on purpose so they can derank and play with low MMR players. It just makes it harder to report people, protecting the cheaters is never a good look. Not showing the lobby makes sense immersion wise during the game, but after it's done? Give me a break, we should be able to see everybodys stats. Next are in game and premium currency changes, you get less of both. It's not a big deal with ingame currenccy, as it makes sense that sometimes your loadout won't be the greatest, but they made changes, so that you can earn less of the premium one, compared to the past (it's a B2P mind you). It was a sucky play on their end, hidden behind "systems overhaul". And last but not least, the battlepass and events. With each event, there's a battlepass, makes sense. Too bad you won't be able to finish it, even if you complete all the missions, you have to play more to unlock it all! (not counting the extra levels for a charm) I'm growing tired of those, The least you can do, is let us get everything, if we complete everything, not to mention that Passes got smaller. Less value for the same price. When it comes to events, at first it was great, made my group play the game religiously. But after a couple of them, they all started to feel the same. Same ♥♥♥♥, different wrapper. The Post Malone circus was the only good thing in the last 2 years (I am a little dramatic here), perks from previous events appear WAY TOO OFTEN, think of something new please, no one really cares about engine upgrade anymore. It wasn't as hype as you promised, it literally just took away few maps for a quite long time, just so we can jerk off to the new fire animations (not to mention performance drop). Having said all that, I still think the game is still quite good, and not every change the devs make is terrible. There are a lot of quality of life changes that are great (though a lot of them were forced by the terrible UI "upgrade"...), which shows that they are indeed doing something, but is it the right direction? Kinda, but not really. You can't fix a connon ball sized hole with a bandaid.