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Hunt the Night

Plunge into a retro-style action-adventure game that combines a fast, skilled gameplay with dark fantasy and lore. Play as Vesper, a virtuous member of 'The Stalkers,' and explore the vast world of Medhram…

76 13 April 2023

Hunt the Night is an adventure developed by Moonlight Games, released 13 April 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

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What Hunt the Night is

Hunt the Night is an adventure game developed by Moonlight Games and released in 2023. It was published by DANGEN Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

It is the 9th Age of humanity. The cycle of day is ruled by humans, the night one by horrid creatures. Despite its efforts, humanity is annihilated with every arrival of the Night. A group of humans, calling themselves 'The Stalkers,’ discovered how to use the power of darkness to their advantage and fought the Night. However, it was not enough, and with every new dawn humanity rose again knowing that, with darkness, comes extinction. Humanity found the ‘Seal of Night,’ an artifact that allowed them to stop the cycle in an everlasting day. In exchange for a blood oath that The Stalkers were willing to pay, the sun ruled for hundreds of generations and, for the first time, hope was a beacon…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Hunt the Night holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Hunt the Night launched on 13 April 2023, within three weeks of Dead Island 2, Resident Evil 4, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Dredge. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Dead Island 2, Resident Evil 4, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Dredge.

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Official trailer

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When did Hunt the Night come out?
Hunt the Night was released on 13 April 2023 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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