Hammerfight (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Hammerfight

Hammerfight is a 2D physics-based action game where you control an aircraft with your mouse. Your aircraft can be equipped with various slashing and crushing weapons, which are all effective at crushing…

60 19 September 2009 Free to play

What Hammerfight is

Hammerfight is a fighting game developed by Konstantin Koshutin and released in 2009. It was published by KranX Productions. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Hammerfight is a 2D physics-based action game where you control an aircraft with your mouse. Your aircraft can be equipped with various slashing and crushing weapons, which are all effective at crushing through armor and slamming them into a wall. There are a large variety of weapons to unlock, including swords, hammers, maces, and even guns. There is an extensive campaign and arena and hunt game modes.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Hammerfight holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Athlon / Pentium III 2 GHz, 256 Mb of RAM and DirectX 8.0 compatible with 64 Mb VRAM. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Hammerfight launched on 19 September 2009, within three weeks of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version and Halo 3: ODST. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version, Halo 3: ODST.

Hammerfight — frequently asked questions

When did Hammerfight come out?

Hammerfight was released on 19 September 2009 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Is Hammerfight free?

Yes — Hammerfight is free to play.

What are the minimum PC requirements for Hammerfight?

At minimum, Hammerfight needs Athlon / Pentium III 2 GHz, 256 Mb of RAM, DirectX 8.0 compatible with 64 Mb VRAM graphics, 150 Mb of storage.

How many GB is Hammerfight?

The PC version needs about 0.1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("150 Mb"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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