West of Dead

For a game I don't remember buying and just randomly trying it out. I love it. Perfect game for my steam deck and easy to play while watching the kids.

I recommend but there are issues. I have most achievements after 22+ hrs played including finishing chapter 4 and I really enjoyed my time though the earlier chapters, but then the cons started to weigh it down a little. RNG isn't good here, Map layouts can get wonky but worse is having a gun or ability only to randomly find the exact same item on the map, that's not good programming. Few other bugs like the glitched stone dude that walks too slow, getting stuck on cover, the dive that doesn't clear gaps right, the dialog that doesn't get skipped right away with the B button, the outlaws sometimes got stuck and no longer fought you so just fill them with lead to move on, and the rewards from burdened ghosts sometimes wouldn't appear correctly. As noted the grind in chapter 4 dragged the fun down some, though some of that was me pushing and being too careless. I redeemed my souls for all that's available to me, but the gallery suggests I'm missing a good 15 or so things, is the drop-rate on new blueprints that bad? I know I died a few times with some in my possession, but I would've thought I'd have much closer to 90+%. As said, overall I enjoyed this, but it could use another p…

Horribly glitchy game. So many bugs and details of the game make it a chore to play. Some enemy attacks, which essentially take away 70-80% of your health bar, stay on the ground or become invisible after they've supposedly ended and dissapeared, making it almost impossible, until you figure this out and lose 4-5 runs, to beat certain areas which have these enemies. Not to mention, even with a top of the line PC and optimising resolution and brightness as much as possible, the game just looks ugly. The art style never really lands, even after hours of gameplay, and the character designs are never any more interesting than, "confederate zombie guy", "confederate zombie guy with gun", "confederate zombie guy with dynamite", "swamp monster", "church monster", "rock gollem" - but done in the most boring straightforward unoriginal way possible. I honestly can't say that even the main character, who I'm guessing they tried to make "the coolest guy in the game", looked cool. Probably the only artistically impressive thing was the design for the Outlaws, the mini bosses you fight throughout the game, but that's really it. For a game with so many enemies and characters, it really really su…

Game's too dark. :)

not a terrible game, and i actually quite liked it first as the different weapons are good, random shops and permanently unlocking items that appear in shops. I liked its cover mechanic where cover will take a certain amount of damage before breaking entirely, but will reappear a couple minutes later. The lanterns not only let you see more of the area that provides an advantage of enemies hiding in the dark, but turning them on will stun every enemy, so it provides strategies and balance However this has no respect for your time as it takes such a long time to do runs even through a single level, every run is procedurally generated so there is no speedrun aspect to it. the controls of moving around are fine when you are fighting 3 - 4 enemies but once fight more than that you move so slow compared to bullets flying at you in multiple directions. Also the cover system is weird, because you can mover cover to cover if there is some nearby which is nice, but you have to move pretty far away from cover to dodge roll freely again. The coding is frustrating where there will be so many times you will slow to a crouch walk because you happen to be running or rolling nearby cover that you…

my first Rouguelike when it first came out. The gunplay is really fun, and the story is really fun and quite interesting