Hunted: The Demon’s Forge is all cooperative action, all the time. Players will control one of two characters, the elfin E’lara, the minimally clothed bow expert, and the bulky Caddoc, good with a sword and shield. The two bounty hunters will work together, either as co-op players online or with one of them controlled by AI, throughout the story-driven campaign. Players can also swap between the two at checkpoints, for a little variety.

In the demo we saw at GDC, inXile staffers played as both Caddoc and E’lara, strategically hunting down and flanking the various ghouls and hellspawn terrorizing the world of Kala Moor. While Caddoc would engage enemies at close range, shattering their wooden shields, slicing them with his massive blade and coating the screen with their black blood, E’lara would find high ground, picking off stragglers with bow and arrow.

Near the end of the demo, we got a peek at one of Hunted: The Demon’s Forge’s mini-bosses, a tall, spindly demon that required some cooperative thinking. The hunters attempted to hack and fire away at the monster to little effect, with Caddoc regularly shut down in his attempts to hack away at the beast. The solution involved setting Caddoc alight and invulnerable once again, hacking away, then entering a quick-time event of sorts, wrestling the demon’s head within sight of E’lara who fired an arrow directly into its head.