Games like Hunt: Showdown 1896
If Hunt: Showdown 1896 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Marauders, Ghosts in the City and Level Zero: Extraction — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its awesome atmosphere, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Hunt: Showdown 1896 is a 2019 extraction shooter set in a historically lost corner of the American West. Players track bounties across procedurally generated environments, hunting twisted monsters while competing against rival hunters in matches where sound design is critical and tactical positioning matters. The action title emphasizes methodical, high-stakes gameplay where failure carries permanent consequences. Developed and published by Crytek, it runs at "Playable" status on Steam Deck and currently retails for $15.99. With 77% positive feedback from over 93,000 Steam reviews, reviewers and players describe the experience as both atmospheric and stressful, with the tension of navigating a dangerous world where careful planning determines survival.
About Hunt: Showdown 1896: Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.
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Marauders
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Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.
Ghosts in the City
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Second-strongest match for Hunt: Showdown 1896 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
A co-op open-world survival hunt set in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo. Explore the city solo or with up to 4 players, track wild animals, fight military forces, survive against deadly creatures, and uncover the truth behind Tokyo’s collapse.
Level Zero: Extraction
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Third-strongest match for Hunt: Showdown 1896 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Tactical extraction shooter meets immersive survival horror. Play as rival mercenaries fighting for loot, or as alien monsters hunting humans from the shadows. Solo or with friends, experience this unique dark take on asymmetrical PvPvE multiplayer.
Escape from Tarkov
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Ranked #4 for Hunt: Showdown 1896 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.
The Cycle: Frontier
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Ranked #5 for Hunt: Showdown 1896 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
The Cycle: Frontier is a free-to-play PvPvE Extraction Shooter driven by suspense and danger. Prospect for resources and other riches on an abandoned alien world ravaged by a deadly storm, inhabited by monsters and other ambitious Prospectors.
OUTLAWED
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Ranked #6 for Hunt: Showdown 1896 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
OUTLAWED is a crime-themed PvE or PvPvE first-person extraction shooter, set in a modern city overrun by gangs. Enter solo or with a squad to challenge powerful enemies and search for riches, and use everything at your disposal to make it out alive.
DayZ
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Ranked #7 for Hunt: Showdown 1896 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Dying Light
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Ranked #8 for Hunt: Showdown 1896 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
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Call of Duty®
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
Vampyr
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London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
Witchfire
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Witchfire is a first-person dark fantasy RPG shooter in which you play as a wicked sinner turned witch hunter on his final mission to reach salvation.
Red Dead Redemption 2
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Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
Apex Legends™
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Apex Legends is the award-winning, free-to-play Hero Shooter from Respawn Entertainment. Master an ever-growing roster of legendary characters with powerful abilities, and experience strategic squad play and innovative gameplay in the next evolution of Hero Shooter and Battle Royale.
Evil West
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A dark menace consumes the Old West. In solo or coop, fight with style in visceral, explosive combat against bloodthirsty monstrosities. Eradicate the vampiric hordes with your lightning-fueled gauntlet and become a Wild West Superhero.
Rust
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Shares a stressful mood with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
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The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hunt: Showdown 1896 at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~69% under Hunt: Showdown 1896 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~56% under Hunt: Showdown 1896 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~50% under Hunt: Showdown 1896 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~72% under Hunt: Showdown 1896 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Noita
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Priced ~50% under Hunt: Showdown 1896 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~94% under Hunt: Showdown 1896 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~81% under Hunt: Showdown 1896 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~69% under Hunt: Showdown 1896 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Ryse: Son of Rome
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“Ryse: Son of Rome” tells the story of Marius Titus, a young Roman soldier who witnesses the murder of his family at the hands of barbarian bandits, then travels with the Roman army to Britannia to seek revenge.
Crysis Remastered
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The classic first person shooter from Crytek is back with the action-packed gameplay, sandbox world, and thrilling epic battles you loved the first time around – now with remastered graphics optimized for a new generation of hardware.
Crysis
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Another title from Crytek, the studio behind Hunt: Showdown 1896. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Adapt to Survive An epic story thrusts players into an ever-changing environment, forcing them to adapt their tactics and approach to conquer battlefields ranging from newly frozen jungle to zero-gravity alien environments. Suit up! A high-tech Nanosuit allows gamers to augment their abilities in real time on the battlefield.
Crysis 2 Remastered
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Another title from Crytek, the studio behind Hunt: Showdown 1896. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Relive the legendary single-player campaign from the classic first-person shooter, Crysis 2, optimized for today's hardware in Crysis 2 Remastered.
Crysis 3 Remastered
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Experience the single-player experience from the iconic first-person shooter, Crysis 3, optimized to take advantage of today's hardware in Crysis 3 Remastered.
Crysis® 3
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Another title from Crytek, the studio behind Hunt: Showdown 1896. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
The fate of the world is in your hands. New and old enemies threaten the peace you worked so hard to achieve 24 years ago. Your search for the Alpha Ceph continues, but this time you'll also need to expose the truth behind the C.E.L.L. corporation.
Crysis Warhead®
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Another title from Crytek, the studio behind Hunt: Showdown 1896. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Pulse-racing new installment from 2007's PC Game of the Year*: Play as Sergeant Sykes and experience a whole new side of the battle. A standard combat mission behind enemy lines becomes critical when you discover your enemies have captured something of vital importance to the ensuing war.
Crysis Warhead®
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning matters with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Another title from Crytek, the studio behind Hunt: Showdown 1896. Shares Action with Hunt: Showdown 1896.
Pulse-racing new installment from 2007's PC Game of the Year*: Play as Sergeant Sykes and experience a whole new side of the battle. A standard combat mission behind enemy lines becomes critical when you discover your enemies have captured something of vital importance to the ensuing war.
Frequently asked about Hunt: Showdown 1896
- Does Hunt: Showdown 1896 run on Steam Deck?
- Hunt: Showdown 1896 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Hunt: Showdown 1896 cost?
- Hunt: Showdown 1896 is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Hunt: Showdown 1896 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Hunt: Showdown 1896 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Hunt: Showdown 1896?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hunt: Showdown 1896 are Marauders, Ghosts in the City, Level Zero: Extraction.
- Who developed Hunt: Showdown 1896?
- Hunt: Showdown 1896 was developed by Crytek.
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