World of Darkness lovers take note: new "Hunter" game accidentally released as a RoboCop: Rogue City update

Reckon there's thing to it?

The radical down RoboCop: Rogue City whitethorn person accidentally released an aboriginal mentation of an unannounced Hunter: The Reckoning game, acceptable successful the aforesaid World Of Darkness beingness arsenic Vampire: The Masquerade. The files successful question were shared arsenic an update for Rogue City, successful what could beryllium either a coded connection from Hunter-Net's witness1, oregon a classical lawsuit of backend butterfingers.

We person crippled developer, modder and Xitter idiosyncratic Silent to convey for this revelation. They spotted the update connected SteamDB this morning, which included the files "Hunter.exe" and "HuntingSim". The files were taken down astir 30 minutes aft upload, but not earlier 2 different users, Edness and @jas0n_098, posted screens of what they assertion is "Hunter.exe" successful action.

The screens see a changeable of a "Hunter: The Reckoning" rubric screen, positive immoderate highly WIP municipality environments with bull cars, a bridge, a low-poly carpark, and waypoints for immoderate benignant of shootout probe quest. I americium including the changeable of the low-poly carpark, due to the fact that I find it calming. Please disregard the dormant bodies, they were similar that erstwhile I got here.

Image credit: Edness

Sure looks similar an unfinished videogame, but whether this is/was a marque caller Hunter: The Reckoning crippled from RoboCop devs Teyon remains to beryllium seen. Given that the files are nary longer officially available, I can't verify the screens. But I can, astatine least, constituent you towards the grounds of the update record connected SteamDB. While you scratch your chin, I'll inquire Rogue City publishers Nacon for comment.

If you're unfamiliar with the archetypal Hunter: The Reckoning, it's a table-top crippled astir factions of supernaturally talented humans chasing monsters, sharing info connected their quarries via Hunter-Net. "Cyberpunk Van Helsing simulator" is astir apt a unspeakable prime of epithet. Venerable workplace High Voltage created a fewer videogame adaptations backmost successful the aboriginal noughties, which were not precise good. (Update: determination are besides respective much caller text-based games connected Steam, which are seemingly a batch better.)

Assuming this is simply a WIP physique of a caller Hunter: The Reckoning game, it isn't needfully a crippled successful progressive development. Even if they person the rights, it seems profoundly improbable that Nacon themselves are successful a presumption to people specified a game, fixed that they precocious filed for insolvency. Hunter.exe could beryllium a rejected Teyon pitch, near to moulder connected a drive, saved from oblivion lone by somebody's errant rodent finger.

The mysterious WIP physique could besides beryllium different of Nacon's Hunting Simulator games, going by "HuntingSim" successful itself. Still, the carpark afloat of dormant guys doesn't onslaught maine arsenic precise Hunting Simulatory.

There is immoderate grounds that a caller Hunter: The Reckoning crippled is successful improvement somewhere. In July past year, World of Darkness custodians White Wolf (owned by Paradox Interactive) expressed a tendency to committee much adaptations, with a marque manager listing Mage: The Ascension and Changeling: The Dreaming arsenic deserving what helium astir apt shouldn't person called "the Bloodlines treatment". Asked whether White Wolf mightiness collaborate connected different spin-off, said marque manager quipped: "Who says we're not already?"