Dread X Collection 4: The Hunt
DreadXP · 2021 · Action, Horror, Psychological Horror, Shooter, Supernatural
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About Dread X Collection 4: The Hunt
✦ AI summary
Play through seven short horror shooters in a sprawling arctic research base as you uncover a haunting mystery with a gun, camera, or both. Dread X Collection: The Hunt delivers polished indie creativity from handpicked developers, each bringing their own twisted take on supernatural terror with nearly double the development time of its predecessors.
The next chapter in the haunting Dread X Collection series. Co-produced by the legendary David Szymanski (DUSK, The Music Machine, Squirrel Stapler), Dread X Collection: The Hunt showcases 7 all-new short horror shooters from a handpicked selection of creative and unique indie developers.
Continuing the Dread X Collection story, you play as series newcomer Artemis. Driven by a cryptic message recorded by someone from her past, Artemis makes her way to the ARK 2 research base. Explore the abandoned base and uncover the mystery of what happened. If you're tough enough, you just might save the world.
The Hunt was conceived and developed as a collaborative effort between Dread XP and David Szymanski. The devs were selected to represent a mix of the wide wild world of indie shooters. The timeframe they were given was doubled (from 10 to 20 days) so as to give them more time to develop and hone their ideas. It's still the short and creative anthology horror you know and love, but with a little more shine.
Features:
Uktena 64 (By KIRA): Jebadiah gets a bounty hunting job from the CDC to stop diseased animals from spreading a deadly virus, which is causing them to change in strange ways. Hunt diseased animals, take their pictures, and discover the source of the corruption.
Axis Mundi (By Philip Hesselbäck): A brand new shopping mall has been disturbed by a number of hauntings. You, a freelancing ghost photographer with a special camera, are called to investigate and cleanse the location. Travel back to the past to uncover the land's darkest moments and put the spirits to rest.
Black Relic (By Torpledook): A monk returns to the monastery one day to find that it has been sacked and all his brothers have been killed. Worst of all, the holy relic he had devoted his life to protecting has been stolen! After learning from the local villagers that a cult of pagans had been seen fleeing with the relic to the ruins of the old forest, the monk takes up his old crossbow for one last hunt.
Rose of Meat (By Mr. Pink): One day while out fishing, your boat crashes into a mysterious island. An island watching you with its big dead eyes. The islanders are frozen in a mad dance, mumbling the name Rose. You know it's better to leave, but you've always been drawn to strange things. Armed with a revolver and a talking leg of meat, venture forth and embrace the madness.
Seraphixial (By Vidas Games, Aaron Wise, and Abbey Smith): After a father receives a letter from his estranged daughter, he discovers the commune she joined is not what it seems. Following a set of strange coordinates far offshore, he finds a submarine that leads to another world. He quickly discovers this world contains a variety of aggressive creatures. He must fight to find his daughter and escape... or will this world swallow him whole?
The Fruit (By Christopher Yabsley): In 1884, Thomas Whittaker departs to the remote town of Ravenshollow after receiving a peculiar letter from his estranged partner. Bathed in a pale fog and lit by a sinister glow, Thomas quickly finds himself hunted by the deranged locals. He must evade the townsfolk and unlock the secrets of an ancient language if he is to have any hope of finding his beloved. Featuring an interactive reload system, players must battle not only the townsfolk but their own nerves to survive.
The House of Unrest (By Dan McGrath): After an old priest performs a profane ritual of everlasting life, he unwittingly invites the plague demon Asakku into our realm. Searching to right his wrongs and save our reality, he contacts you, a mysterious demon-hunting priest. Armed with a gun and the light of God, you must battle the flesh given form and banish Asakku back to where he came from.
Continuing the Dread X Collection story, you play as series newcomer Artemis. Driven by a cryptic message recorded by someone from her past, Artemis makes her way to the ARK 2 research base. Explore the abandoned base and uncover the mystery of what happened. If you're tough enough, you just might save the world.
The Hunt was conceived and developed as a collaborative effort between Dread XP and David Szymanski. The devs were selected to represent a mix of the wide wild world of indie shooters. The timeframe they were given was doubled (from 10 to 20 days) so as to give them more time to develop and hone their ideas. It's still the short and creative anthology horror you know and love, but with a little more shine.
Features:
- 7 new short horror shooters from talented and creative indie devs
- A robust arctic base to explore
- All shooters (be it a gun, a camera, or both!)
- A new mystery to uncover as part of the Dread X Collection universe
- 8-12 hours of playtime
The Games
Uktena 64 (By KIRA): Jebadiah gets a bounty hunting job from the CDC to stop diseased animals from spreading a deadly virus, which is causing them to change in strange ways. Hunt diseased animals, take their pictures, and discover the source of the corruption.
Axis Mundi (By Philip Hesselbäck): A brand new shopping mall has been disturbed by a number of hauntings. You, a freelancing ghost photographer with a special camera, are called to investigate and cleanse the location. Travel back to the past to uncover the land's darkest moments and put the spirits to rest.
Black Relic (By Torpledook): A monk returns to the monastery one day to find that it has been sacked and all his brothers have been killed. Worst of all, the holy relic he had devoted his life to protecting has been stolen! After learning from the local villagers that a cult of pagans had been seen fleeing with the relic to the ruins of the old forest, the monk takes up his old crossbow for one last hunt.
Rose of Meat (By Mr. Pink): One day while out fishing, your boat crashes into a mysterious island. An island watching you with its big dead eyes. The islanders are frozen in a mad dance, mumbling the name Rose. You know it's better to leave, but you've always been drawn to strange things. Armed with a revolver and a talking leg of meat, venture forth and embrace the madness.
Seraphixial (By Vidas Games, Aaron Wise, and Abbey Smith): After a father receives a letter from his estranged daughter, he discovers the commune she joined is not what it seems. Following a set of strange coordinates far offshore, he finds a submarine that leads to another world. He quickly discovers this world contains a variety of aggressive creatures. He must fight to find his daughter and escape... or will this world swallow him whole?
The Fruit (By Christopher Yabsley): In 1884, Thomas Whittaker departs to the remote town of Ravenshollow after receiving a peculiar letter from his estranged partner. Bathed in a pale fog and lit by a sinister glow, Thomas quickly finds himself hunted by the deranged locals. He must evade the townsfolk and unlock the secrets of an ancient language if he is to have any hope of finding his beloved. Featuring an interactive reload system, players must battle not only the townsfolk but their own nerves to survive.
The House of Unrest (By Dan McGrath): After an old priest performs a profane ritual of everlasting life, he unwittingly invites the plague demon Asakku into our realm. Searching to right his wrongs and save our reality, he contacts you, a mysterious demon-hunting priest. Armed with a gun and the light of God, you must battle the flesh given form and banish Asakku back to where he came from.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
All the Dread X collections are somewhat uneven, but with more good than bad and even the lesser games are at least sometimes interesting. This is the first one i completed all the games in so lets go through them in order. The Fruit 9/10 - By far the standout title, cool atmosphere, a great reloading mechanics that truly added to the tension. Could absolutely be expanded to a bigger project if the dev wanted but as a standalone short indie, it's pretty damn good and probably worth the asking price for this collection alone. Axis Mundi 7/10 - Pretty good and always nice with Swedish folklore in games, sort of Fatal Frame mechanics where you can defend yourself from the spirits with your camera and nice idea with recreating photos for lore. Alright Puzzles, decent combat. Not exactly super spooky and the enemy design was a bit cheap looking. Black Relic 7/10 Awsome style, and a decent atmosphere. It's the only non fps game, instead going for 3rd person. Was pretty easy as long as you avoided getting surrounded. The House of Unrest 6/10 The ending saves it from a lower score. Not even remotely scary and the puzzles where little more than pick up X and go to Y. But the ending…3 found this helpful
One of the most awful games (it's a game collection but all of them are terrible), I've played in a while. Each game contained has the look of a video game but no substance to back that up with, no writing of particular interest, no gameplay worth it's time, no visuals interesting or of good quality to even make an effort to make up for the rest. The theming only applies to like 2 games, in one of them the gun is so awful I basically ignored it the entire game. Not worth price on discount, not worth it when free.1 found this helpful
In terms of quality i think this is possibly the best collection next to Dread X 3 and i'm mostly saying that given the devs had extra time to work on their games. Maybe not the best overworld as i think it's a bit hard to top Akuma Kira's hub from the last one in terms of style and fun. Regardless i hope they stick the landing with the currently 5th and final Dread X Collection so we'll see.
overall enjoyable! I had a good time with most of the games in this one
this collections takes less time than the others to complete in full, but it's still pretty good.
All the collections are great, and this is no exception.
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