Huntdown

Huntdown is a 2020¹ run-and-gun video game developed by Easy Trigger and published by Coffee Stain Publishing. It was released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch in May 2020. The game was later ported to Android and iOS in May 2021.

Huntdown is a 2020 run-and-gun video game developed by Easy Trigger and published by Coffee Stain Publishing. It was released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch in May 2020. The game was later ported to Android and iOS in May 2021.

Setting

Huntdown is set in the future, following a third world war that caused the collapse of Earth's nations and their replacement by corporations, building "a society fueled by greed". Given the corporations only provide jobs and protection to those loyal, the lack of public services also created a high rate of crime, with street gangs, cartels and syndicates waging constant war against each other and corporate authority. This provides an ideal, stable ground for bounty hunters who can get hired by the corporations to dispatch of specific targets.

Plot

The player's bounty hunter is offered a millionaire contract by the elderly Wolfmother of the Shimamoto Corporation - who also was a foster mother to the bounty hunter - to initiate a huntdown of several criminal elements which head four specific street gangs - the Hoodlum Dolls (a feral punk-themed street gang), the Misconducts (a hooligan gang that utilizes hockey uniforms for armor), the Heatseekers (a smuggling greaser motorcycle gang with a style of an Ancient Rome centurions) and the recently formed Nº1 Suspects (a syndicate with a stylized Japanese theme and high-tech equipment). The bounty hunter, while hunting down the gang leaders, also comes across opportunity "bounties" that serve as enforcers and lieutenants for the gangs, eliminating them as well. However, after defeating the final gang leader, the Shogun of the Nº1 Suspects, the hunter is contacted by the Wolfmother, who is surprised to see the bounty hunter accomplished the huntdown, on which the hunter was not expected to survive. The Wolfmother explains that Shimamoto had a transition in its leadership and the huntdown was formed to destroy the gangs and take over their territories, while the bounty hunter would die as to erase all of Shimamoto's involvement in the conflicts. Because the hunter survived, the Wolfmother is forced to terminate the contract and put a bounty on the hunter's head. However, a bounty is also placed on Wolfmother, on which an unseen bounty hunter eliminates both the guards and finally kills the Wolfmother herself.

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