Hunger: A Visceral First Person Horror PvPvE
The first-person genre has taken great strides in recent years, partly thanks to powerful game engines like Unreal Engine 5, Unity, and others, and also partly thanks to fresh ideas in terms of stories, plot, and setting, which no doubt points to a set of good decisions when designing one game or another. An excellent example of that is Hunger, a new game labeled as a first-person PvPvE hack n’ slash with RPG elements, whose release will be announced soon and that will enter early access this same year.
It is developed and published by GOOD FUN CORPORATION, and it will place us in a dystopian past in Napoleonic Europe after the Great Plague. We will have to choose a single survivor to embark on the adventure, obtain different items, fight and overcome both the hostilities of that aggressive world and other players who will be looking for exactly the same thing as we are. This new plague that has ravaged the land, known as The Hunger, has turned most of the few survivors into mutated, aggressive, and lethal beings, and to defend ourselves from them, everything will be valid: firearms, melee weapons, improvised grenades, sticks and stones, and even the environment itself could mean the difference between life and death on many occasions. This is Hunger:
Welcome to the World After the End
The World After the End, that’s what this version of the ruins of Napoleonic Europe is called. A more than fitting name for this context, since many times we will doubt whether we have truly survived or if, on the contrary, we find ourselves in some kind of relentless purgatory. Hunger will offer us a masterful mix of first-person shooting, hack n’ slash, RPG, and unmatched horror. This game won’t make use of dark and suffocating environments, on the contrary, it will show us that in open spaces and under the sunlight it will also be possible to feel hunted, fearing for our life.
In this intense and brutal environment, our survival and safety will be directly tied to the inhabitants of the Castle, the only refuge we will be able to consider, let’s say, “safe.” There we will find a wide array of characters through whom we will take on countless missions, along with merchants, stash guardians, bounty hunters, and other living beings. We will have to complete missions and increase our reputation to gain access to new places, skills, more characters, weapons, gear, and vital resources.
Combat, Progression and More
We will use rifles, pistols, will throw explosive glass grenades with an experimental handheld mortar, among many other options. In Hunger we will not lack ways to defend ourselves from a distance, although in many cases the hard part will be finding ammo for those weapons. When the distances between our enemies and us get shorter, we will have to draw our axe, or mace, or whatever we might have nearby to enter the lethal and visceral melee combat, a deadly dance that we will engage in both against The Hunger itself and against other living beings who will try by all means to take what is ours. In the midst of that chaos, we will search for armor, weapons, bags, trinkets, medicine, and shields to be able to face the dangers and battles that will lie ahead.
Even though a large part of our gear and weaponry can be lost, all the experience will contribute to the progress of our survivors and their level. Each of our survivors will have a set of passive, tactical, and ultimate unlockable skills, in addition to much deeper and more customizable mastery trees, with over 100 talents to choose from. We will make less noise when walking to boost stealth, pick locks, or improve our stealth attack, just as we will be able to increase our reload speed and control of ranged weapons, or our strength when delivering powerful melee blows. Whatever our playstyle is, we will surely find in the progression system skills that match our preferences.
So…
Hunger will not give us a break once we cross past the Castle walls. If the video above hasn’t been enough proof of that, you will soon be able to try this gem in early access, so we advise you to go to its Steam page, which you’ll find right below, add it to your Wishlist, and stay alert for new announcements about its dates. And while you wait, of course, you can keep scrolling right here and leave us your opinion on this visceral proposal in the comments. You know gamer, we’ll be reading you! 😉
Images Source: IGN Official YouTube Channel, Hunger on Steam
