Recent reviews by Fox Vex ♥

Game had great potential but consistent failures on the devs end, not fixing bugs, balance or general game play issues fast enough.

the games player base has dwindled to under 2k so games are near impossible to get and when you do get them they arent balanced, so you can go in with little to no gear and vs someone in a BiS set up who will literally one hit you before you can blink.

I feel at this point the game is lost and unrecoverable, even if they fix the issues and make good changes i highly doubt the game will gain traction.

its sad as i had hoped this game would be good / better than similar games of its style. the fighting was smooth, movement was nicer than other options (such as Dark and darker), everything else was almost a hard copy of dark and darker.

If you want to enjoy a medieval looter extractor Stick with Dark and Darker until someone makes something better.
sadly not a well done genre as of yet.

Edit: December 1st update 2024 - DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME!!!

let me explain, the recent update forced gear per section, casual is only greys now, classic is greens and blues, and hard mode is everything else, the trash mobs are harder to kill and far more vast (even though they said they will be reducing mobs) On top of this, some classes are just Useless now due to the gear changes and map changes, Having to use specific gear in specific areas has Skyrocketed the market prices and its now as hard to get blues as it is to get epics.

The que times are INSANE due to the gear changes and having to use specific gear for each section, the balance is worse than before even with the gear changes which sounds insane but it genuinely is, if you want to run Hardmode good luck, because everyone just runs uniques and legendarys, pretty much instant killing you. dont get me wrong Risk reward, always lovely, but Better hope you are rich to continue being rich. Nice little 1%er mode.

if you upgraded your heirlooms pre patch Good job, they are all now literally useless. again unless you want to play Hard mode and in that mode Heirlooms are already useless because they are weaker than all other epic +.

This isnt worth playing, honestly i dont think its even savable at this point.... if you want a loot extractor go play Dark and darker.

absolutely horrid design of a killer, you can either play a 45 min forced 3gen game or you can get slugged with knock out for 40 mins, worst killer design ever. if they dont completely rework and overhaul her ill never recommend this killer, pure disgust in the devs for even releasing Skull merchant in this state

Masochism the game. its great!

Honestly i genuinely LOVE this game, i love the aesthetic and play style but its just fallen off so quickly and is currently at a point where its literally unplayable.

i had high hopes for bloodhunt and during beta those hopes were dwindling due to over abundance of cheaters, glitches and other various issues but when the devs shut the game down to do further offline development to improve on those aspects i once again had hope, the game released a play test for 2 days and we as a community found major game breaking glitches (such as a hit registration bug that at random your weapon would just deal 0 damage per shot until you reloaded) And a reload glitch where you would go through the entire animation of reloading just to have nothing change about your weapon and you had to try reloading again (this bug could repeat on its self and leave you in perpetual loops, generally leading to your death). We had hoped that the devs would fix these glitches before release, or at minimum delay the full release till they could better address the major faults in the game, unfortunately they kept to their release date and the game came out, at first the game was booming hit a peak of almost 39k players on pc and a bunch more on playstation, until people just started hemorrhaging out of the game, By week 2 of release the games numbers had halved, by the end of week 3 it was down to 1.8k active players at peak and by the end of week 5 it was below 1k active players.

at time of posting - bloodhunt has less than 1k active players at peak times and its low hits all the way down to 300 active players on a daily basis, generally speaking there are 1 - 2 servers for each game mode running at any given time meaning it just lobbies the server into whatever region has the majority local players and the rest get pulled in.. so generally speaking you will only ever get EU or US East games regardless of what time of day you are playing, Hopefully you dont live in australia like i do as regardless of what happens you are at a minimum of 200+ ping if you want to play the game in any capacity..

unfortunately its a marvellous game that dropped off quick due to a multitude of issues ranging from delays, no active hotfixes (bugs being pushed back to major updates to be fixed), cheaters (i understand a lot of people have not encountered these cheaters or are unaware of when they encounter a cheater but asia alone was riddled with cheaters to the point people were VPNing out of the region just to have a mildly fair game, as well as bloodhunt receiving record high ban numbers) and the sadest one of all is merely slow content updates / lack of over all diversity leading to the game stagnating, players becoming bored and then just leaving (if they hadnt left due to the other various issues along the way).

the low player count is also causing New players to not even give bloodhunt a shot, they come in to sit in a 5-35 min que *(depending on region and time of day)* and either play 1 game, get bored and leave, leave before even getting a game, or getting into a game and before they can even get a hang of the play style they die just to have to sit in another 5-35 min que and no one enjoys that.

all in all it had great potential and promise but its not looking likely for the game to pick up or improve any time soon, Hopefully im wrong and in the near future Bloodhunt becomes active and enjoyable again.

💀/10 - you will be missed

Used to love Hunt: Showdown, played it from the alpha all the way through but it just keeps falling in quality with every passing year, the gameplay used to be slow and methodical, you had to play tactically and place your shots, the game relied on skill and precision but now its just a generic spam shooter like everything else out there now.

Genuinely used to love this game but it now just fills me with disappointment.
lack of developer integrity and game direction.

2/10

1896 update: game runs worse than it did before, game crashes every time you try to open the map during banish "glitched", game randomly just drops fps "glitched", game crashes constantly, servers randomly just disconnect and wont let you load back in even with the "re join the hunt" just perpetual loading screen forever.

it has been 2 weeks since the update and all these issues are still not only prominent but worse than before. i Genuinely cant recommend this game to anyone, the dev team are horrid, even after the switch to a "new" dev team, the management is poor, i understand now why so many people left the company recently. absolutely tragic as it was a fun game at one point.

Edit post 2.0.1: So crytech claims they have optimised the game, made massive improvements, fixed all the glitches and bugs...
can you guess what they actually did? - Thats right the square hole! ... i mean Yeh 0 optimisation, still runs horrid, they added a weird fog to day maps that glares the screen and makes it impossible to see long distances unless you drop your graphics settings to minimum.
the changes to the old maps are sub par, just makes them less cluttered and removed all the brush / bush, so theres no more fun areas unless you have a sniper and sit in a tower (so fun....) or camp out a compound (which like 90% of players are doing now days, so still not fun)

Honestly still highly recommend against Hunt: showdown. i love the concept of the game, i used to love the game back in BETA and it has gone down hill ever since 1.0 - crytech are a horrid dev company and continue to be so.

as long as you love dredd you will love this game, if you love roll playing you will love this game, if you love memes you will love this game. it might be short and sweet but its definitely worth the price tag.

also a good Beginner to speedrunning type game if that interests you

Good game, buy the delux edition when its on sale Makes it more fun to get started and have some variety! 10/10

short but gorgeous game, lovely music and a story line that will hit you Right in the feels....

gorgeous game with an incredible story
hours of burning things
its super relaxing and fun

10/10 would buy again

10/10 hours of endless fun