Break out your blocky cybernetic killing apparatus and the sort of shotgun Arnold Schwarzenegger might have wielded on the big screen back in the days of big hair and cocaine. Huntdown: Overtime, a prequel to side-scrolling shoot-em-up Huntdown has been announced and is set to arrive in early access this year.

Building on the arcadey cyberpunk gangland arse-kicking of its predecessor, Huntdown: Overtime puts a roguelite twist on the carnage, with cybernetically-enhanced bounty hunter John Sawyer taking out as many targets as he can per run, before being dragged back to a cyber-doc’s operating table on death. As you go, you’ll murderdeath a lot of foes and gradually unfurl Sawyer’s origin story by morphing from mostly man, part killer toaster to mostly killer toaster, part man.

“We’ve tried to capture that relentless, forward-momentum gunplay from classic action movies and modern ones like John Wick,” said Tommy Gustafsson, art director at devs Easy Trigger Games. “Then we added a massive arsenal, cybernetic upgrades that reshape your playstyle, and wrapped it in a roguelite loop. The result is something we hope captures the badass spirit of 80s cinema while giving you a reason to keep hunting run after run.”

The devs promise “multiple paths through gang territories, wastelands, and more” to help keep things fresh, in addition to weapons ranging from fists of fury, to fully automatic rifles, massive snipers, and explosives. The likes of flamethrowers, miniguns, and futuristic beam or plasma shooters look to await those who rise up the killer toaster ranks.

“This hits a sweet spot for me,” Adam Smith (RPS in peace) wrote in a 2017 preview of the first Huntdown. “On one level, it’s not a particularly exciting game, doing things that I’ve been familiar with for a long time and lacking any specific hook. But at another level, it’s one of those retro games that’s actually far more detailed than any of the things that it remembers. As I was talking to the developer, I suddenly remembered a ‘similar looking’ game called After The War that I hadn’t thought about since I was a kid. ‘It’s the same kind of future world, though in After The War a nuclear bomb has been dropped’, I explained as I searched the internet for an image.”

Huntdown: Overtime’s scheduled to drop in early access in Q2 2026, which’d put in somewhere between April 1st and June 30th by my googling. If you fancy, you can wishlist it on Steam.