Hunt Down the Freeman

Developer(s)

Royal Rudius Entertainment

Publisher(s)

Royal Rudius Entertainment

Release date(s)

February 24th, 2018

Genre(s)

First-person shooter

Mode(s)

Single-player

Platform(s)

Windows

Engine

Source (Source 2013 MP)

Steam AppID

723390

Distribution

Steam

Official website

Official Website (Defunct)

Links

Steam page

ModDB page

Hunt Down the Freeman is currently available on Steam.
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Supported OS:

Windows (See system requirements)

Hunt Down the Freeman (also known as HDTF for short) is an infamous 2018 Half-Life fangame running on Source 2013 Multiplayer. 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 were 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 37 achievements, with some of them added as jokes or meme references to anything such as the negative review of the game, for enabling cheats, and much more.

When it comes 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.

Recently, Hunt Down the Freeman has begun the process of being completely remade by a team of devs. Some Steam announcements have been released detailing the devs' process in the revamp process, including new models for guns, remade maps, revamped shaders, and more. It may eventually be worth the $10 it's being sold for...

Features

Hunt Down the Freeman uses the Source 2013 SDK, with the following features added:

WebM video: Introduced in HDTF since 2023 update, WebM offers better video quality and more effective compression compared to Bink video.
Physically Based Rendering
FMOD audio

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 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.