Skinwalker Hunt

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Track a skinwalker through night-black forests and try to come back alive.

Platforms: PC
Stores: Steam
Price: Paid
Rated: Very Positive on Steam (91% of about 870 reviews)
Players: 1
Made by: Gua
Released: 2022

What frightens As a Native American monster hunter you stalk a skinwalker, a creature of legend, through large dark forests and wilderness at night, finding tools and abilities to hunt it and to stay alive while it and other dangers come at you from the dark.
Content: violence, blood.

Skinwalker Hunt is a first-person horror hunting game from Gua, the maker of Witch Hunt. As a Native American monster hunter you track the legendary skinwalker across large handcrafted maps, with no hand-holding and loot that moves each time you play.

About Skinwalker Hunt

Skinwalker Hunt is a horror-themed hunting game by the developer Gua, who made Witch Hunt, released on Steam in August 2022. You play a Native American monster hunter who sets out to hunt down the legendary creature called the skinwalker in different parts of the world.

The game is built around exploration, non-linear play and atmosphere. Its environments are large and handcrafted, and the placement of loot, characters and objects you can use is randomized, so each hunt goes differently. You find and use different tools and abilities to track the creature and to survive the night.

The store warns that this is not a story-driven game: successful hunting takes patience and perseverance, and there is no hand-holding. The horror is in the waiting and the searching, alone in dark woods and marshes with a rifle and a light, knowing the thing you are after is out there too.

It suits players who liked Witch Hunt or who want a slow, difficult hunt in the dark rather than a guided story.

How to play Skinwalker Hunt

Buy it on Steam for Windows and pick a hunting ground.
Explore the map and gather the weapons, tools and items placed around it.
Look for signs of the skinwalker and track it through the area.
Use your tools and abilities to bring it down while staying alive.

Screenshots

A hunter with a shotgun and a dog near a bear trap in a dark clearing, an old church behind and a pale figure in the trees

A bear and a wolf with glowing eyes lunge at the player out of the dark

A robed figure in an animal skull mask with a blade approaches the player's tomahawk by an abandoned school bus

Tips

Be patient: the store says a successful hunt takes patience and perseverance.
Search widely each time, since loot and objects are placed at random on every hunt.
Expect no hand-holding; learn each map's layout as you go.