#Weird west genre Pc#
#Weird west genre series#

There’s plenty of ways to approach exploration, stealth, combat and roleplaying each, and the gunplay is extremely satisfying. When you’re not going through the mandatory regularly scheduled soft reset process, however, the gameplay is really fun. Taking on bounties is one of the best ways to get funds early into a new heroes journey. In addition, the contents of your horse’s saddlebags carry over, so the inventory isn’t really completely reset each time, but the fact that the player has to buy a new horse in most of them before accessing it is possible is quite obnoxious. Once you do that, you can reclaim anything that was in their inventory for your (new) self. One saving grace for this aspect of the game is that prior heroes don’t stop existing in the game world after their Journey ends, meaning you can go track them down as the next character (which is never hard to do) and recruit them to your posse. Money, equipment, skills, reputation, even having a horse don’t carry over between characters, and while it makes sense logically it destroys any sense of mechanical progression in addition to just being plain annoying. On the other hand, the end of each journey acts as a sort of soft reset for much of the player’s progress. This peculiarity gives the game an interesting structure that I’m still trying to decide whether I liked or not on the one hand, regularly giving the player a fresh perspective and face (to which various denizens of the west will react differently) is great for worldbuilding and giving the player a sense for the setting.

Over the course of the game the player steps into the shoes of five different characters, each with their own “Journey”, backstory, and a small selection of skills unique to them. The Basics: Weird West is an isometric RPG and immersive sim set in an alternate version of the wild west where witches, demons, werewolves, and other supernatural phenomenon are just as common as saloons, cowboys, and gunslingers.

I do unfortunately have to admit that it isn’t everything I was expecting-slash-hoping for, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t still an excellent showing. You can probably imagine, then, what my reaction was like when I first heard about a game that was literally called Weird West. There’s only one things I like more than a video game western, dear reader, and that’s a video game in a “weird west” setting.

#Weird west genre Pc#

Form a posse or venture forth alone into an otherworldly confines of the Weird West and make each legend your own.Developer: WolfEye Studios Publisher: Devolver Digital Genre: Immersive RPG Reviewed On: PlayStation 4 Also Available For: Xbox, PC

#Weird west genre series#

Each journey is unique and tailored to the actions taken - a series of high stakes stories where everything counts and the world reacts to the choices you make. Journey through the origin stories of a group of atypical heroes, written into legend by the decisions you make in an unforgiving land. Discover a dark fantasy reimagining of the Wild West where lawmen and gunslingers share the frontier with fantastical creatures. Discover a dark fantasy reimagining of the Wild West where lawmen and gunslingers share the frontier with fantastical Survive and unveil the mysteries of the Weird West through the intertwined destinies of its unusual heroes in an immersive sim from the co-creators of Dishonored and Prey.

Summary: Survive and unveil the mysteries of the Weird West through the intertwined destinies of its unusual heroes in an immersive sim from the co-creators of Dishonored and Prey.