In one of the most bizarre leaks of all time, Robocop: Rogue City developer Teyon (or possibly publisher Nacon) accidentally deleted all game data on Steam and replaced it with an early version of an unannounced reboot of Hunter: The Reckoning.
Hunter: The Reckoning is a tabletop RPG from White Wolf Publishing's World of Darkness series, best known for Vampire: The Masquerade. Hunter: The Reckoning's hook is that the characters are ordinary people thrown into a battle against vampires, and they gradually learn to fight them through a website called Hunter.net.
In video games, a trilogy of hack-and-slash games was developed by High Voltage Software, with the first published by Interplay (of Baldur's Gate fame) and the latter two by Vivendi (which eventually merged with Blizzard). Aside from that, a visual novel from interactive fiction developer Choice of Games was released last year.
One of the weirdest leaks ever
A look at Robocop: Rogue City's SteamDB page reveals that every file associated with the game was deleted and replaced with “Hunter.EXE.” This was very quickly reverted by a developer who was very panicked about his mistake, but a couple of people managed to download and run the executable before the change was reverted.
According to screenshots posted by users on X, the file contained an early version of a game called Hunter: The Reckoning. The title screen shows a city covered in darkness, with a full moon shining over the cityscape. The in-game screenshots contain placeholder assets, but we see mission objectives in the top left of one of them.
“Shootout Investigation: Talk to restaurant counterman, talk to priest, investigate Sunshine bar,” reads the quest. The game is supposedly in development by Teyon and will likely use the core of Robocop: Rogue City to build upon.
The tabletop version of Hunter: The Reckoning was re-released in 2022 by Renegade Game Studios using the fifth edition ruleset of Vampire: The Masquerade.
Teyon's publisher, Nacon, is currently in financial turmoil as the company declared insolvency after a debt from a major shareholder was not paid. Nacon is currently trying to negotiate an agreement with the French courts that will allow the company to restructure its debts and continue operations in the short term. Teyon is not owned by Nacon.
RoboCop: Rogue City
3.5/5
- Released
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November 2, 2023
- ESRB
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M for mature 17+ due to blood and gore, intense violence, sexual themes, strong language, drug use
- Developer
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Teyon
- Publisher
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Nacon
