VHS-veiled Huntdown: Overtime, a retro gangland roguelite run and gunner, arrives in early access this year

It's the prequel to 2021 side-scrolling 80s shooter Huntdown, if you hadn't guessed

Break retired your blocky cybernetic sidesplitting apparatus and the benignant of shotgun Arnold Schwarzenegger mightiness person wielded connected the large surface backmost successful the days of large hairsbreadth and cocaine. Huntdown: Overtime, a prequel to side-scrolling shoot-em-up Huntdown has been announced and is acceptable to get successful aboriginal entree this year.

Building connected the arcadey cyberpunk gangland arse-kicking of its predecessor, Huntdown: Overtime puts a roguelite twist connected the carnage, with cybernetically-enhanced bounty huntsman John Sawyer taking retired arsenic galore targets arsenic helium tin per run, earlier being dragged backmost to a cyber-doc's operating array connected death. As you go, you'll murderdeath a batch of foes and gradually unfurl Sawyer's root communicative by morphing from mostly man, portion slayer toaster to mostly slayer toaster, portion man.

"We've tried to seizure that relentless, forward-momentum gunplay from classical enactment movies and modern ones similar John Wick," said Tommy Gustafsson, creation manager astatine devs Easy Trigger Games. "Then we added a monolithic arsenal, cybernetic upgrades that reshape your playstyle, and wrapped it successful a roguelite loop. The effect is thing we anticipation captures the badass tone of 80s cinema portion giving you a crushed to support hunting tally aft run."

The devs committedness "multiple paths done pack territories, wastelands, and more" to assistance support things fresh, successful summation to weapons ranging from fists of fury, to afloat automatic rifles, monolithic snipers, and explosives. The likes of flamethrowers, miniguns, and futuristic beam oregon plasma shooters look to await those who emergence up the slayer toaster ranks.

"This hits a saccharine spot for me," Adam Smith (RPS successful peace) wrote successful a 2017 preview of the archetypal Huntdown. "On 1 level, it's not a peculiarly breathtaking game, doing things that I've been acquainted with for a agelong clip and lacking immoderate circumstantial hook. But astatine different level, it's 1 of those retro games that's really acold much elaborate than immoderate of the things that it remembers. As I was talking to the developer, I abruptly remembered a 'similar looking' crippled called After The War that I hadn't thought astir since I was a kid. 'It's the aforesaid benignant of aboriginal world, though successful After The War a atomic weaponry has been dropped', I explained arsenic I searched the net for an image."

Huntdown: Overtime's scheduled to driblet successful aboriginal entree successful Q2 2026, which'd enactment successful determination betwixt April 1st and June 30th by my googling. If you fancy, you tin wishlist it connected Steam.