Hunt: Showdown Is Having Its Best Day Ever On Steam Following Ambitious 1896 Update
Hunt: Showdown just received its massive 1896 re-launch–one that overhauls Crytek’s supernatural extraction shooter and updates it for current-gen consoles–and it’s doing the numbers on Steam to prove it.
Crytek’s shooter has always had a consistent player count of around 20,000-30,000 people on Steam over the last few years, slowly but surely cementing its place as one of the best extraction shooters available. The Hunt: Showdown 1896 launch has pushed the game’s concurrent Steam players to new heights, reaching over 55,000 players and counting at time of writing, according to SteamDB.
It’s a big moment for Hunt: Showdown. The 1896 update overhauls the 2018 shooter’s visuals, with an upgrade to the latest version of the CryEngine and all the improved lighting and audio updates that come with it. The changes are so dramatic that Crytek is ending support of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game. Owners of the last-gen console versions, however, will be upgraded for free to the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S versions. It also adds the game’s first new map in years (set in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, which is the first map set outside the swamps of Louisiana), and introduces new enemies, weapons, weapon variants, and cosmetics.