The Crimson Hunt Beginner Guide — Victoria, Eleanor and the First Hour

The Crimson Hunt is a third-person survival horror action-adventure from Farelas, released on Windows through Steam on Oct 6, 2026 and priced at $9.59 in the US at the time of capture. You play Victoria, a vampire hunter working in the shadows, and Eleanor, the young woman she is sent to rescue from a secluded Victorian mansion. The listing supports Single-player and local split-screen co-op.

What The Crimson Hunt is

The listing files The Crimson Hunt under Action, Adventure and Indie, describes it as a modernized take on classic survival horror, and ships it on Windows only. There is no official website: the store page and the app details record are the official destinations, plus a support address listed as devfarelas@gmail.com.

Item	Value at capture
Developer / publisher	Farelas
Release date	Oct 6, 2026
Platform	Windows
Price (US)	$9.59 (list $11.99, 20% off)
Genres	Action, Adventure, Indie
Achievements	19
Languages	11
Demo	app 4662870

Two numbers in that table move with promotions: the price and the discount. The platform and the release date do not.

Victoria, Eleanor and the mansion

The store text sets the premise in one pass. Victoria eliminates the last remnants of the vampire bloodlines, and one night receives a mission: infiltrate a secluded Victorian mansion deep in the woods and rescue a young woman named Eleanor, kidnapped by an ancient vampire who has awakened once more. On arrival she finds the mansion is more than a refuge, because the listing calls it a sanctuary of darkness, infested with vampires, ghouls and bloodthirsty creatures.

Eleanor is described as weakened but determined. She escapes her cell and crosses paths with Victoria, and the two form what the listing calls a fragile and uneasy alliance: they push through decaying corridors, solve ancient mechanisms and confront the horrors in every corner. Nothing beyond that is published, so there is no ending, no chapter structure and no backstory beyond the past that haunts Victoria.

The first hour: scarce ammunition, vital light

The resource language is the most concrete part of the listing, and it is where a first session is decided.

• Ammunition is limited and described as scarce rather than merely tight.
• Healing is scarce, and every item counts.
• Light is called vital before the listing says anything about weapons.
• Every encounter matters, so avoidance and positioning are framed as valid responses.
• Enemies are described as grotesque and unpredictable rather than named.
• Hidden traps sit alongside combat, so an empty corridor is not automatically safe.
• Puzzles are environmental and mechanical, solved by observation, logic and exploration.

Solo or local split-screen co-op

The listing carries both Single-player and Shared/Split Screen Co-op, and the co-op text says the full journey is playable with another player: coordinate strategies, share resources and face the horror as a team. Remote Play Together and Family Sharing are tagged too.

What is not stated is how many copies a split-screen session needs, which protagonist each player controls, or whether the co-op flow differs from the solo flow. Those remain gaps rather than details.

What the store page leaves out

Five things a new player usually wants are absent from the official listing: how many chapters or areas the game has, how long a run takes, whether difficulty tiers exist, the full enemy roster, and the names of all 19 achievements, since only 10 highlighted names are published.

There is also no DLC entry and no console announcement. Everything the official sources do say is collected on the cheat sheet; the combat and resource loop is broken down on gameplay, and the purchase, demo and language details sit on platforms.