The Crimson Hunt Weapons — Tools, Ammo and the UV Light

The Crimson Hunt's weapon design is built around scarcity rather than a catalogue: the store description says you combine a variety of weapons and tools to adapt to unpredictable enemies, adds that ammunition is scarce and light is vital, and never prints a weapon list. What the official material does confirm is that you have a ranged option, a heavy melee option, a defensive parry, and a UV light that does real work against the creatures, and that managing those tools is the actual skill the game tests.

What Weapons Are in The Crimson Hunt?

The honest answer is that no weapon is named by the developer anywhere in the collected material. What exists instead is a set of confirmed capabilities: the demo's control scheme documents a shoot input and a separate heavy attack, the walkthrough shows both ranged and close combat, and the published achievement names include Swordswoman, Armed and Ready and Parry Master, which confirm a bladed weapon and a timed deflection without telling you what they are called. The store pitch is deliberately abstract about this because the intended fantasy is improvising with whatever you have rather than picking a favourite from a menu.

Confirmed capability	Where it comes from	Weapon name published
Ranged fire	Demo control scheme, shoot input	No
Heavy attack	Demo control scheme, separate input	No
Melee blade	Swordswoman achievement name	No
Parry or block	Parry Master achievement, block on hold Alt	No
UV light	Store description and walkthrough dialogue	No
Passive stun and avoidance tools	Developer's co-op note	No

The UV Light Is the Weapon You Never Run Out Of

The most useful offensive tool in the game costs no ammunition, which is exactly why it sits at the centre of the design. The walkthrough has Victoria explain that the creatures are sensitive to UV radiation because of their physiology, that the light blinds and weakens them, and that keeping it aimed at the head is what lets the pair finish an enemy off. The store page backs the importance without the detail, stating that light is vital, and because the UV explanation comes from a single video source the exact behaviour is a to-confirm detail rather than a documented rule.

Read practically, that turns the light into a debuff tool with no ammo cost: it is the thing you apply before spending a bullet, not after. It also explains why the game can afford to make ammunition scarce, because the developer has given you one unlimited answer to every enemy and made the finite answers the expensive ones. The demo patch notes show the same idea being tuned before launch, adding a companion mechanic where the ally shines her flashlight toward wherever you aim with the right mouse button.

Tools, Passive Aids and the Ammo Economy

Tools are the other half of the loadout, and the developer's co-op note is the clearest description of what they do: the second character gets passive tools that can stun enemies or help avoid combat entirely, and can also carry any weapon. That is a utility layer rather than a damage layer, which fits a game where the store description says smart inventory management is the difference between life and death and where healing is scarce too. The practical consequence is that a tool which buys you a free escape or a safe window is often worth more than another clip you cannot refill.

The pages that pair with this one are the enemies page for what each tool is answering, the co-op page for how the second player's kit is described, and the tips page for the habits that keep the ammo count from running dry.