HUNTDOWN: OVERTIME 0.793.3 Native — Mac version

Huntdown: Overtime is a side-scrolling run-and-gun action game that mixes hand-crafted pixel art with the looping, pick-up-and-die rhythm of a roguelite.

Shoot your way in

You drop in as John Sawyer and clear rooms full of thugs using cover, slide-kicks, and whatever weapon you can grab. Each run is a scramble to stay alive long enough to reach the next boss.

Stack your kit

Between fights you hoover up temporary guns and stacking perks—faster reloads, extra grenades, a dodge that leaves a trail of fire. You build a loadout on the fly, and losing it all is part of the loop.

Bosses and bricks

Every district ends with a screen-filling boss that forces you to use the scenery as much as your trigger finger. Duck behind a burnt-out car, pop up, fire, and don’t stop moving.

No original required for this prequel’s story

Do I need to have played Huntdown first? Not at all. This is a prequel, so the story stands on its own. If you played the original you'll spot familiar gang logos and a few in-jokes, but the game never assumes you know them.

Is it playable on an older Mac? The build runs on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, and testing on a 2024 M4 Mini with macOS Tahoe was smooth. If your machine handles other pixel-art action games without trouble, you should be fine. The real bottleneck is your reflexes, not your graphics chip.

How much of it is finished? The developer calls the core systems feature-complete. All the districts, bosses, weapons and perks are in place. Early Access here means polish, balance tweaks and extra voice lines—not a skeleton waiting for organs.

Smarter cover snapping and visible grenade arcs

Version 0.790.2 tightened a few things that affect everyday play. Cover snapping got smarter about low walls, so you spend less time crouching in the wrong spot. Grenade throw arcs now show a faint dotted line, which makes lobbing a frag through a doorway less of a guessing game.

John's slide-kick cooldown was shortened by a fraction of a second—just enough that you can use it twice in a tight corridor fight without feeling robbed. The Russian and French localisation also got a pass, fixing some menu text that was spilling out of its boxes. Nothing flashy, but the kind of tweaks that stop you blaming the game when you die.

Twenty minutes in the districts

You pick John Sawyer on the character screen, skip the intro after hearing the growling voice-over once, and drop into a rain-slick alley. First room: two thugs behind a barrel and one on a fire escape. You slide into cover, pop up, and put three pistol rounds into the nearest target. He drops a shotgun with four shells.

You grab it and push forward. A perk pedestal offers Hot Feet—your dodge leaves a fire trail. You take it. Two rooms later you're cornered by a flamethrower heavy. You dodge sideways, he walks into the flames, and you finish him with the last shell.

The district boss is a cyborg enforcer with a riot shield. You bait a charge, slide under his swing, and unload a submachine gun into his back. He turns, you duck behind a wrecked taxi, reload, repeat. When he drops, the screen flashes your score and the next district unlocks. You're already eyeing a perk that doubles grenade damage. One more run.

• Apple Silicon or Intel 64-bit Mac