The Crimson Hunt Co Op — Local Split-Screen, Roles and Remote Play

The Crimson Hunt supports local split-screen co-op for two players, and that is the only co-op shape the official listings describe. Steam lists multi-player, co-op and shared or split-screen co-op, the store description says you can team up in local split-screen to face the horror together, and the developer's launch post clarifies that the second character can equip any weapon in the game rather than being locked to a support role.

Is The Crimson Hunt Co Op, and Is It Online?

Co-op here is a couch feature, not a matchmaking feature. The store page lists Shared/Split Screen Co-op and Shared/Split Screen as separate categories and adds Remote Play Together, which is Steam's way of streaming a local session to a second person over the internet, so a friend who is not in the room can join the same split-screen build without a second copy. What the listing does not offer is a dedicated online co-op mode with its own lobbies, so if your plan depends on internet play with two machines, Remote Play Together is the documented route rather than a separate mode. Treat the exact in-game menu step for enabling the second player as not documented yet.

Co-op question	What the official listings say
Mode	Local split-screen, shared or split screen
Player count	1 to 2, local multiplayer supported
Roles	Victoria and Eleanor, the two leads
Second player's kit	Any weapon in the game, plus passive tools that stun or avoid combat
Online play	Not native; Remote Play Together streams the local session
Achievements in co-op	Not documented yet

How the Two Players Split Weapons and Tools

The launch news post answers the question most co-op buyers ask, and the answer is generous: character choice does not restrict the second player's loadout. The second character can equip any weapon in the game, and on top of that gets passive tools that can stun enemies or help avoid combat entirely, which is effectively a second answer to the scarce-ammunition problem the single-player loop is built on. That matters because the store description says ammunition is scarce, light is vital and every encounter matters, so a second player who can stun or bypass enemies rather than shoot them changes the resource maths for the whole run.

The single-player companion works on the same idea even when nobody is holding the second controller. The demo patch notes dated 27 May 2026 describe improving the ally AI so the companion no longer stays static and is more useful for stunning enemies, and adding a mechanic where she shines her flashlight toward wherever the player aims with the right mouse button. In other words, the split-screen role you would hand a friend already exists in a simplified form when you play alone.

What Is Not Documented About Co Op Yet

Several practical questions have no official answer yet. There is no published statement on whether two-player sessions rebalance enemy counts, whether the second player's progress saves separately, whether achievements are credited to both players, or whether the campaign can be finished entirely in co-op without switching to solo. The store page treats co-op as a feature rather than a mode with its own rules, so anything more specific than the listings above is unconfirmed.

If you are weighing up a second controller, the pages worth reading next are the guide for the light-and-ammo loop both players share, the weapons page for what the second player can actually equip, and the Steam page for the full feature row and Remote Play Together listing.