Weird West (2022)
Weird West is a 2022 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Wolfeye Studios and Devolver Digital.
WolfEye Studios, formed by veterans of Dishonored and Prey, brings the immersive sim to a frontier where lawmen and gunslingers share the dust with witches and beast-folk. Weird West unfolds across the linked origin stories of several unlikely heroes, from a retired bounty hunter to a pigman. Played from a top-down view, it lets you sneak, burn, bargain, or shoot your way through, and the world remembers what you did. Systems tangle in emergent ways, and choices ripple into later chapters. The mood is gothic Americana, superstition and gunsmoke over a sun-cracked land.
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What is Weird West about?
WolfEye Studios, formed by veterans of Dishonored and Prey, brings the immersive sim to a frontier where lawmen and gunslingers share the dust with witches and beast-folk. Weird West unfolds across the linked origin stories of several unlikely heroes, from a retired bounty hunter to a pigman. Played from a top-down view, it lets you sneak, burn, bargain, or shoot your way through, and the world remembers what you did. Systems tangle in emergent ways, and choices ripple into later chapters. The mood is gothic Americana, superstition and gunsmoke over a sun-cracked land.
When was Weird West released?
Weird West was released on 31 March 2022.
Who made Weird West?
Weird West was made by Wolfeye Studios and Devolver Digital.
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A few thoughts on Weird West
Its blend of frontier grime and the supernatural pairs with the film Bone Tomahawk, all creeping horror at the edge of civilization. The comic East of West carries the same apocalyptic weird-western charge, and anyone hungry for open-range reactivity should ride into Red Dead Redemption 2.
Gunslingers and gothic frontiers where the supernatural rides in with the outlaws
Weird West mixes gunslingers, witches, and beast-folk into one sun-cracked frontier. Bone Tomahawk turns a rescue posse into pure frontier horror, East of West rides four apocalyptic horsemen through a fractured America, Wizard and Glass follows Roland's gunslinger quest through a world that used to be more like ours, and Red Dead Redemption 2 gives that same dust and gunsmoke without the magic.
Origin stories that braid together several unlikely heroes into one plot
Weird West follows a retired bounty hunter, a pig-man, and several other outcasts whose separate stories eventually knot together. Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon both juggle a scattered cast whose paths keep crossing, The Boys throws together a ragtag group who have no business being heroes, and Avatar: The Last Airbender braids several very different arcs into one bigger journey.
Witches, curses, and fairy-tale darkness lurking under a harsh setting
Weird West folds witches and beast-folk into its frontier without blinking, treating the supernatural as just another neighbor. The Girl Who Drank the Moon spins its own witch-and-curse fairy tale, Made in Abyss fills its world with monstrous, half-formed creatures, Inuyasha mixes feudal Japan with demons and half-demons, and Fullmetal Alchemist has its own chimeras stitched together from things that should not mix.