Okishima 1336 Bounty Hunting Guide: How Bounties Work

Bounty hunting in Okishima:1336 is a two-sided cops-and-robbers system — one side earns the bounties and the other hunts them down.

How Ronin players earn bounties

Pick Ronin and you're on the robber-style side of the game. One of Okishima:1336's developers compared it to familiar cops-and-robbers setups — jailbreaks, prison escapes, Mad City-style chases — where the outlaw side robs banks, steals money and generally causes trouble. For bounties specifically, the trigger is killing: NPCs and other people around the map, with bandits and fights against other players feeding the same outlaw habit.

Killing pays in two ways. The bounty is the mark of your kills — and it is also a target on your back, because it is exactly what a Shogunate player can take from you. Money works differently: cash earned from killing bandits or fighting other players is what you spend on gear, and gear is how you get stronger. The developer laid progression out as precisely that loop — fight or kill, earn money, buy gear, get stronger — so every outlaw payday feeds your next upgrade. If you plan to earn your money by fighting other players, our Okishima 1336 combat guide covers the fighting itself.

The same walkthrough sketched a wider outlaw life around bounty earning: robbing people, killing, earning a bounty and becoming renowned across the land. Parts of that list were still tentative — setting buildings on fire was explicitly flagged as possibly not making release — so treat those edges as expected features rather than confirmed ones. The core was stated plainly: kill, earn a bounty, and turn the money from your kills into better gear.

Who hunts bounties: the Shogunate

Shogunate players play the cops to the Ronin's robbers. Their role is to run around the map hunting Ronin down and enforcing laws, and catching an outlaw pays directly: the Shogunate steals the Ronin's bounty and their money. The developer summed the two roles up as basically the opposite of each other, which turns bounty hunting into a chase that runs in both directions — every bounty a Ronin builds is a prize a Shogunate player can collect.

Ronin vs Shogunate at a glance

Choosing your side

Both roles sit on the starter screen — Shogunate on one side, Ronin on the other — and the developer was direct about the freedom involved: you can pick whatever you want to be. He described the relationship between the two sides as a kind of honor system, a hierarchy with outlaws and lawmen keeping each other in check. In practice, the choice is about which half of the bounty hunt you want to play: the earner who has to watch their back, or the hunter who profits from the chase. Our Okishima 1336 Ronin vs Shogun comparison looks at the two roles in more depth, our Okishima 1336 how to switch paths guide covers changing your pick after you have started, and new players can find the basics in the Okishima 1336 beginner guide.

One caveat on sources: these details come from a developer walkthrough call recorded ahead of the game's release. The structure — Ronin earn bounties, Shogunate hunt them, and an arrest costs the outlaw both bounty and money — was described plainly. Exact bounty amounts never came up in that call, so treat the specific numbers as something you will learn in game rather than from the preview.