{"id":519592,"date":"2026-03-07T04:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519592\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:11:12","slug":"robocop-rogue-city-on-steam-briefly-replaced-by-a-seemingly-early-build-of-an-unannounced-hunter-the-reckoning-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519592\/","title":{"rendered":"RoboCop Rogue City on Steam briefly replaced by a seemingly early build of an unannounced Hunter: The Reckoning game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The studio behind RoboCop: Rogue City seemingly briefly replaced the Steam version with an early build of an unannounced Hunter: The Reckoning game by accident.<\/p>\n<p>As spotted by X user <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EdnessTweets\/status\/2029877313462993389\">Silent<\/a>, an update for the <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; Steam [2,813 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/pc\/steam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a> version of the game removed the contents of the game including the \u2018RoboCop.exe\u2019 executable and replaced them with an entirely different build including a \u2018Hunter \u2013 Win64 \u2013 Shipping.exe\u2019 executable.<\/p>\n<p>X user <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EdnessTweets\/status\/2029877313462993389\">Edness<\/a> downloaded the update and was met with an extremely early build of an entirely different game, with a title screen saying Hunter: The Reckoning.<\/p>\n<p>The early build appears to show the player in the role of a police officer, with tasks asking them to investigate a shootout at a bar by speaking to the barman and a priest.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter: The Reckoning is a horror tabletop RPG in the World of Darkness universe (which includes Vampire: The Masquerade), and has players fighting vampires, werewolves and ghosts in a modern day setting.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing there have been no new Hunter: The Reckoning video games announced, but there were three hack-and-slash console games based on the IP released by High Voltage Software in 2002 and 2003, the first of which <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-gb\/games\/store\/hunter-the-reckoning\/bvml1phr6wdh\">can still be played on Xbox consoles<\/a> via backwards compatibility.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Title screen says Hunter: The Reckoning, but the actual games under that title are by another developer and are 2D text based, unlike whatever this is.  Doesn&#8217;t look very hunter-like either so I doubt this is their Hunting Simulator 3.  (Screenshots by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jas0n_098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@jas0n_098<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sikon1Mfvc\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/sikon1Mfvc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Edness (@EdnessTweets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdnessTweets\/status\/2029877313462993389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether this early build is a new game that\u2019s set to be announced in the future, or a build of a game that was in development but has since been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, as other users have pointed out, the fact that this build had a default Unreal Engine icon, had no copyright information and was quickly replaced with the proper <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Games &gt; RoboCop: Rogue City [19 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/games\/robocop-rogue-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RoboCop: Rogue City<\/a> game within 31 minutes, suggests that it was uploaded accidentally.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The studio behind RoboCop: Rogue City seemingly briefly replaced the Steam version with an early build of an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-519592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}