There is the retired bounty hunter seeking vengeance, and she relies on conventional tools of her trade. There are five tales that are explored, as the player is led through five different people getting by in this harsh and at most times brutal western frontier. This bizarre world of the old west manages to not feel like it’s a random thought to bring in sales, but it’s telling a story about average people trying to make their way through an uncaring, even hostile world. The overlapping of familiar western outlines is a major appeal to me, and thankfully, it’s not just a cover-up of what else this game provides. A glimpse at the character and inventory screen, loving my 6-shooter. Ghouls, ghosts, and ravenous hordes of zombies or vampires OH MY! We are definitely not in Kansas anymore Toto. With the addition of the normal outlaws of old, you get tossed new issues to deal with. Then on top of all this, you get the privilege of bringing in the supernatural. There are bullets whizzing overhead and slow-motion dives during a stagecoach robbery and an endless amount of gunplay. There are familiar tales, of bounty hunters and lawless desperados having shootouts in the middle of towns. Weird West eases players into the world of the supernatural by way of the cowboy archetype. Then when I heard that there was going to be a video game coming out with the same type of premise, I was immediately drawn to Devolver Digital and WolfEye Studio’s Weird West. It was a Steam-Punk-like Wild West game where you took on Vampires, ghouls, and other fantasy creatures. It was originally released in 1996 by Pinnacle Entertainment Group as an alternative play style to other TTRPG at that time. When I think of Wild West with occult and horror settings, the first thing that jumps out is the TTRPG Deadlands.
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