$19.99HUNTDOWN Bounty hunting with a friend
A pixel-art run and gun set in a neon-soaked future city where gangs run the streets and you run the bounties. Grab a friend, grab a machine gun, and shoot, stab and explode your way through 20 levels of hard boiled 80s action comedy.
Is HUNTDOWN worth it?
HUNTDOWN is worth it if…
- you grew up on run and gun classics and want one that holds up today
- you want a couch co-op shooter that two people can finish in a few evenings
- you like boss fights with patterns to learn instead of bullet sponges
- you want fast arcade action with a score to chase in arcade mode
- you have a soft spot for 80s action movies and synth soundtracks
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Three bounty hunters, one very corrupt city
You pick from three very different legends of the trade. John Sawyer is a scarred ex-cop who has lost so many limbs he is practically half robot. Mow Man is a stolen recon droid running banned software, and nobody takes Mow Man alive. The city they clean up is run by four gangs, from feral punk dolls to slick casino-owning martial artists, and each of the 20 levels ends with a gang boss to terminate and a bounty to collect.
Guns you take from the people you shoot
You never buy a weapon here. You confiscate one. Machine guns, laser weapons, katanas, grenades and more all change hands the old fashioned way, and every gun you pick up is a gun an enemy no longer has. You aim in straight lines, so positioning matters: stand in the right spot and the fight goes your way, stand in the wrong one and you eat lead. Bosses are the real test. They have patterns to learn, and the moment one that kept flattening you finally goes down without landing a hit is the best feeling in the game.
An 80s action film you can play
Hand painted 16-bit pixel art and hand drawn animation run at a fluid 60 frames per second, over an epic synthesized soundtrack. The city is neon soaked and graffiti strewn, straight out of the retrofuturist films of the era, and the dialogue leans into it with one-liners and nods to the action classics. The sound design carries it: gunfire, explosions and the synth all land exactly where they should. It is a loving tribute that plays like the arcade cabinets it remembers, with modern polish underneath.
Better with a friend on the couch
This is a game built for two people shouting at one screen. You run, jump and take cover through the streets of the future together, one of you laying down suppressive fire while the other advances, and the mayhem only gets better when someone else is causing half of it. Your buddy can be in the same room or on the other side of the planet: couch co-op and online play are both in. Short, punchy levels make it easy to play a stage or three in an evening, the way these games were always meant to be shared.
What else should you know?
Can you play it solo?
Yes. The whole campaign works alone, and the bosses are tuned so a few attempts teach you their patterns. There is also a separate arcade mode built for one player against the world: a race against the clock where you climb global leaderboards by chaining combo kills, quickdraw weapon swaps and the occasional criminal thrown off a rooftop.
Is it hard?
It is demanding but fair. Bosses take a few tries, yet nothing asks for inhuman reflexes, and the difficulty is well balanced: you fail, you learn the pattern, you win. Checkpoints restore your health along the way, so a bad stretch never costs you the whole level.
How long is the campaign?
There are 20 levels, each ending in its own gang boss, and the levels are short and built for action rather than exploration. That makes it easy to replay: you can chase the optional goals on each stage, like secret briefcases, or simply run the whole thing again with a different bounty hunter.
Does it matter which character you pick?
Each of the three hunters plays with their own flavour. Anna Conda brings heavy firepower and no mercy, John Sawyer is the grizzled veteran, and Mow Man is a modified droid with banned software. The differences are mostly in feel and flavour rather than separate campaigns, so pick the one whose one-liners you like.
