Levels 1–5
Emberwold
An island off the human coast, and the only door into the world. Everyone who arrives, arrives here — and the Guild’s clerk signs your licence on its sand.
A card-battle hunt in one open world
The Hunters
A Hunter is a licensed killer of monsters. Earn your licence on Emberwold — then go wherever the contract sends you.
Closed test An invite code makes an account — ask for one on our Discord.
The hunt
Every fight is played where you stand
No battle screen and no loading: a pack is met in the world, and the fight is a hand of cards played on the ground around you.
A deck in your hand
Every blow, guard and spell is a card: your class’s, the ones your weapons bring and the ones the hunt gives you. Build the deck — the order you play it in wins the fight.
Hunt the body
A blow lands on a part, and a broken part takes away what it did: break the legs and the beast is crippled, the head and it fights blind, the arms and it is disarmed.
Fights out in the open
There is no battle screen. Packs roam the land and a fight is fought where you meet them — every hunter nearby sees it, and can join it.
Hold the Wall
Every twenty minutes the dead climb the Wall in the far west. The hunters on its crown hold it together — and if it falls, all of Ironmarch lives under its dread.
Duels on the BattleGround
Take your deck to the hunters’ own island and fight each other, turn against turn. Rank counts there, never level.
Paid in cut stones
The Guild pays in cut stones. Trade them face to face with another hunter, put a price on the Exchange, keep the rest at the bank in every town.
Seen in the game
The world as you will walk it
Every picture here is the game itself, photographed as it runs — no painting over it.
The world
One world, from the island to the Wall
Emberwold, Ironmarch and the sea between them are one world, streamed as you walk it. The packet sails you from the island’s harbour to the mainland, and nothing loads.
Levels 5–50
Ironmarch
The largest land in the world: stone-walled cities, wide roads, farms to the horizon and forges burning day and night. In the far west stands the Wall.
Rank, not level
The BattleGround
The island where hunters fight hunters — dark, scarred and fought over, and neutral ground between the guilds.
Paths
At level ten, choose who you become
Each class splits into paths, and every path fights a different fight — with its own cards, its own gear and its own way to break a body.
Warrior
Steel, guard and the ground the fight stands on.
Swordmaster
Chooses where the blade lands — the one hunter who aims at the part they want. One sword cuts harder; two sweep wider.
Vanguard
Changes the ground itself: cracks to a cave-in, ramparts, spikes and mud — and the place a fight is born on decides how.
Shapeshifter
Turns the body into a beast part by part — the wolf, the bear, the phoenix — until the full form at level 40.
Mage
Mana builds orbs; orbs strike. Every Mage keeps a line of orbs circling their feet, and the weather and the hour give their elements.
Fire Mage
At each round’s end a flame eats the orb behind it into a hotter one — white, blue, violet, star-white — and a spell burns with the hottest.
Frost Mage
Every orb comes in frozen, and every frozen orb spent breaks over the enemy: ice chills, frostfire stuns, glare blinds.
Life skills
Eleven crafts, every one of them in the world
Strike a seam, fell a tree, forge at the anvil, cast at a shoal, cook at the pot, cut herbs, farm a plot, bind a wound — and ride, swim and sail. Each climbs to level fifty, and the gear you fight in is made, never bought.
- Mining
- Woodcutting
- Smithing
- Fishing
- Cooking
- Herbarium
- Farming
- Medicine
From the keeper
News
What came with each new game — the same words the launcher shows you.
The launcher
One place to sign in, download The Hunters and keep it up to date. Only what changed is downloaded, and every byte is checked against the game's signature before it is installed.
The way in
Download The Hunters
One launcher signs you in, downloads the game and keeps it up to date.
Download for Windows
TheHuntersSetup.exe · 46 MB · Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit
Download for Linux
TheHunters-linux.tar.gz · 71 MB · unpack it and run TheHunters/Launcher/TheHuntersLauncher.x86_64
Launcher 2026.1103.1705 · game 2026.1103.1705 · SHA-256 checksums
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Run the installer
It puts the launcher on your computer for you alone — no administrator. If Windows says it protected your PC, choose More info, then Run anyway.
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Let the launcher fetch the game
About 1.2 GB the first time. After that only what changed comes down, and every byte is checked against the game’s signature before it is installed.
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Make an account, then play
The test is closed for now: an invite code makes an account. Ask for one on our Discord, make your account in the launcher, and PLAY.
What it needs
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit — or Linux, 64-bit
- A graphics card with Vulkan
- 3.3 GB of disk for the game
- A connection while you play