One mission tasked me with finding an item important to a local gravedigger that had somehow found itself into the coffin of a customer, but in reality, the task was to watch the same digging animation ten or fifteen times as I desecrated the graves of the town inhabitants before they were replaced with tumbleweeds and old bloodstains on the saloon floor. There’s an inherent drudgery to searching the same template ghost town come bandit camp come ghost town for one side quest MacGuffin or another.
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Weird West is constantly trying to wow with minor, largely inconsequential systems that desperately collide in order to create some kind of interesting outcome, which often results in frustration, and the realisation that the game had to be severely flattened – the game is full of blank, repeating template maps – so all these systems could run around having fun with each other while players look on. Weird West could watch fire propagate naturally across flammable surfaces ‘til the cows come home better yet if the fire was unintentionally started by players while they clicked about ineffectually locked in the game’s wonky combat encounters. Weird West’s heart lies in the fact that when you kick over a barrel full of water, you’ll still be able to drink whatever liquid remains inside (for a lesser bump to your health of course). It isn’t interested in satisfying, unique narratives squirrelled away in corners of the world, special weapons, or companion characters.
You’ll sneak through brothels and skulk down blood drenched mineshafts, piecing together the broader narrative of Weird West as it spills across the five different characters you control across its playtime.īut it’s clear after the opening few hours of Weird West that it isn’t really interested in witchcraft, curses, werewolves or vampires beyond their usefulness as window-dressing. A ‘retired’ gunslinger, a cursed and tragic pigman, a religious zealot – all of which are basically avenues used by Weird West to tour you about the unique (and sometimes not so unique) environments of its world, allowing you to stick your nose (or snout) into each and every dank, eldritch cranny. Your actual character – some nondescript spirit presence known as ‘the Passenger’ – inhabits characters with wildly varying backgrounds strewn across the land. Weird West plays out in an anthology structure. Check out our video review of the game by clicking here.Frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer autoplay clipboard-write encrypted-media gyroscope picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen> Weird West is available now for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One (via Game Pass). If you can get to grips with the clunky combat, there’s plenty here to enjoy.”. It’s a macabre adventure in a deeply creepy world, helped by stylised comic book visuals and some great sound design. The RPG side of the game is superbly done. Mick reviewed the game upon launch, giving it a respectable 7.5/10 score, saying that “Overall, your mileage with Weird West will vary dependant on how you deal with the combat.
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In terms of the roadmap, you can see the image below, and there’s at least five free updates on the way with “more to come”. WolfEye Studios have shared their upcoming content roadmap, highlighting free updates already in the works!
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The plague marks the first in a series of planned live events for the game that will soon grow to include new story events, encounters, expansions and Journeys. “Reports are rolling in from across the Weird West of a plague of undead rising from the grave! Worse, a terrible sickness seems to follow in their wake”, says the press release. The publisher, along with developer WolfEye Studios has revealed a roadmap for the game, which includes a plague event, and much more free content.
Launching via Game Pass on March 31st, Devolver Digital has revealed that Weird West has been played by over 400,000 players since then.
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