Hunt Down the Freeman

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Just another mission, or so you thought… until aliens from another dimension start invading Earth before a scientist with a crowbar hospitalizes you after wiping out your entire squad. Just when you thought you were finished, a man with a briefcase offers you the chance for another beginning.
Initial release date: 24 February 2018
Engine: Source Source
Engine Branch: Source 2013 Singleplayer (original), Source 2013 Multiplayer (current)
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Supported OS: Windows Windows
Steam Deck status: Unknown Unknown - More info on ProtonDB More info on ProtonDB

Hunt Down the Freeman Hunt Down the Freeman (HDTF) is an infamous 2018 Half-Life fangame running on Source 2013 Source 2013. It was critically panned due to its numerous bugs, poor design, and the game's developers not being paid. The game features a parkour mechanic, which the player can use to scale pipes, crates, and other large objects. The developers was also accused of using assets from other games (such as Garry's Mod's Steam Workshop) without permission from the original creator.

Hunt Down the Freeman features 33 achievements, with some of them added as a jokes or memes references to anything such as the negative review of the game, for enabling cheats, and much more.

Criticism aside, when it's come to the engine, the game utilizes WebM video for cutscenes (since 2023 beta update), PBR textures, Parallax Corrected Cubemaps, FMOD for audio, and much more.

Updates

April 1st, 2022: A dev build (known as M3SA build) was released, which fixes many of the game's bugs and design flaws, and beta branches (including a newer OWF build) were opened that continued to fix and optimize the game.
September 12, 2022: An update patched "the stuff we didn’t catch in the April 1st update" and switched the engine version to Source 2013 Multiplayer Source 2013 Multiplayer to allow smaller BSP file sizes.
December 29, 2022: A dev blog detailing their progress on the game was posted, showing their progress in new visuals and FMOD support.
July 3, 2023: An beta update releases, which, among other things, replaces the BIK video files with WebM, reducing install size by 5.7 GB.

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