The game is technically an open world where you can discover different parts of the map as you traverse the Badlands, each new encounter or town in Weird West is loaded onto a new area the way old-school RPGs are represented by an overworld and towns scattered across the map with random encounters in between. Weird West gets a little more involved when it comes to combat and to a certain point, the interaction with the world. There’s a bit of a learning curve for these types of games if you aren’t used to them. Weird West gives a grizzled voice-over from a storyteller who sounds like Nick Cave from Bastion and randomized mumbling represented by the voices of the characters in the game, making for a lot of reading as you progress through the game. While it would have been great, don’t expect a fully voiced RPG experience. The Good, The Bad, and The WeirdĪt its core, Weird West is an isometric RPG that introduces you to a number of characters and elements that lets you switch perspectives between them, taking control of different stories and views that ultimately combine a western into a magic-filled combination that somehow works. Just when you think it gets too weird, trust me, it gets even weirder. The deeper you go into the rabbit hole, the weirder the stories get. The game takes you through an interconnected story told through different characters that live in this hellish world, experiencing these encounters and living to tell their tale once it’s done. As she delves deeper into the gang behind the crime, she realizes that the humans trafficked are literal cattle to be served to Sirens, a cannibalistic shapeshifting troupe. Weird West starts off like any given Western, with the story of Jane Bell, a retired bounty hunter thrown back into the fray when her son is killed and her husband captured by a human trafficking ring.

Weird West is a western horror RPG by Wolfeye Studios and published by Devolver Digital which basically takes all of the fringe encounters you experience when roaming the outskirts of the Red Dead Redemption Badlands and turns it into its own game. Similar Games: Desperados III, Octopath Traveler.

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