This is probably the oddest way for what appears to be a fairly major leak to appear. RoboCop: Rogue City developer Teyon seems to have accidentally leaked its next project, or an early build of a project that never got off the ground, or an early build of its next project. That's all unclear, but what's happened is that someone at Teyon accidentally swapped RoboCop: Rogue City out with an entirely different game when updating it on Steam, revealing what could potentially be a new 3D Hunter: The Reckoning game.
First noted by X (formerly Twitter) user Silent, an update for Teyon's first-person RoboCop shooter included an entirely new executable, "Hunter.exe." It removed the RoboCop.exe executable, and when another user, Edness seemingly got the update downloaded, what they discovered was an entirely new game that wasn't RoboCop at all.
The title screen read "Hunter: The Reckoning," and launching the game brought them to what was clearly a very early build of the project. The other curious wrinkle is that previous Hunter: The Reckoning games are not 3D outings. They are text-based, narrative-driven RPGs that haven't been made into 3D adventures since the early 2000s, with a hack-and-slash third-person action title released on the original Xbox and Nintendo GameCube back in 2002.
It was also removed a little more than half an hour after it was uploaded, further suggesting this was an accident, and as the user Silent says, "a major mistake."
These titles also stem from the same universe as the Vampire: The Masquerade titles, and like the Vampire series, is also mostly known to be a table-top RPG. Yet another wrinkle to this story is the fact that the Hunter: The Reckoning franchise is under the stewardship of Paradox Interactive.
In fairness, that last bit could be easily explained, because if this is indeed a new Hunter: The Reckoning game, considering the struggles that Paradox has gone through between recent layoffs and the financial failure of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, it would not be surprising to see Paradox opt to hire Teyon, or any other studio to revive the Hunter series, rather than spend more on making it internally.
You could also argue that Paradox would be quite astute in its choice of Teyon, since the team clearly has precedent in bringing back older IPs and making them shine in appropriately scaled projects. RoboCop: Rogue City wasn't trying to be the next big thing; it was a double-A shooter trying to bring new life into an old franchise, and absolutely succeeded in that task.
Who's to say that Teyon couldn't do the same for Hunter: The Reckoning, especially since there is arguably a lot more opportunity for experimentation, considering how few titles in the series have been 3D adventures rather than 2D.
Last year, we learned that Teyon was recruiting for a new action RPG, and this could very well be that RPG the studio was recruiting for. If this is what we think it is, then we might be a ways off from seeing any gameplay, assuming this build is the current one the studio is working on. Hopefully, though, we'll hear more about what Teyon has in the works soon.
About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.
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