Blood West
Hyperstrange · 2023 · FPS, Open World, Western, Stealth, RPG
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About Blood West
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Play as an undead gunslinger navigating cursed Wild West landscapes infested with eldritch horrors, using stealth, guns, magic, and cunning to survive across three sprawling open-ended maps. This immersive FPS rewards careful exploration and tactical approaches while letting you customize your playstyle through a deep skill tree and arsenal of firearms, artifacts, and occult weapons.
Weird West legends meet eldritch horror in BLOOD WEST, an immersive stealth FPS. Become the Undead Gunslinger, doomed to roam the barren lands until he finds the means to purge their curse and free his soul. No, this isn’t your typical Wild West desperado redemption arc. This is a damnation arc.
The Canyons, the Swamp, and the Mountains. Each swarming with abominable monsters and unholy demons, these are open-ended worlds for you to explore freely at your own pace. It will take the player over 20 hours on average to complete all three scenarios, and over 35 if they want to see everything the barren lands have to offer.
Blood West is a stealth FPS inspired by the genre classics such as the Thief series (whose fans will be happy to hear the voice of Stephen Russell, the actor voicing the master-thief Garrett, returning here as the protagonist), S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, or - from the contemporary catalog - Hunt: Showdown. The gameplay rewards the careful approach: scouting the area, stalking your enemies, and striking from the shadows. Can you figure out a way to clear a fort full of ghouls and monsters without raising an alarm?
The Barren Lands present the player with a nightmarish, twisted vision of the Wild West legends. The curse that has befallen the realm has corrupted every living thing, defiled the land itself, while summoning restless spirits and dark entities. In this mixture of gunslinger pulp and Lovecraftian horror, dark occult magick presents just as much of a threat as sudden lead poisoning.
In Blood West you will meet many colorful, yet strangely twisted, fully-voiced NPCs. Just as much prisoners of the Barren Lands as you are, they will sometimes share their unusual stories and send you on various missions. Play nice and they might reward you or become your allies. Cross them and risk their wrath.
The game won’t hold your hand. You’ll have to explore the land for yourself (buying a map from a vendor might prove useful!), and figure out your own way to approach quests. As you poke around the three expansive maps, keep an eye out for hidden places and secret stashes. There’s gold in the mountains! Fair warning - it’s probably cursed.
If sneaking around isn’t exactly your thing, or you feel that you have a power advantage over your enemies, you can always take the head-on approach and meet your enemies guns blazing. Blood West comes from the creators of the fan-favorite boomer shooter POSTAL: Brain Damaged, so much gratuitous fantasy violence and pixelated blood splatter is to be expected!
One man’s hell might be another hoarder’s paradise! From simple one-use items like bandages, through medical tinctures, explosives and incendiaries, straight to arcane artifacts that - once slotted - can change the way you play the game, the Barren Lands are just filled with STUFF. There are tons of useful items to discover, and there’s a special player’s stash crate for all those super-rare potions that you’ll hoard and never use.
A gunslinger without a gun would be just a regular slinger. Where’s the fun in that? Blood West makes sure you’ll have plenty of weapons to choose from. Revolvers, rifles, shotguns, carabines - a great variety of firearms, from standard army-issue to those infused with powerful magic, or straight-up possessed. And if you prefer not to cause a ruckus, there’s a wide selection of hand-to-hand combat weapons and archery weapons to pick your favorites from.
The RPG-like perk-based progression system in Blood West will allow you to highly customize the gameplay experience to your liking. Become a stealthy hunter, a revolver-fanning gunman or a relentless berserker. You will gain experience and progress through the skill tree, while discovering new artifacts in each of the scenarios that will bestow on you additional abilities. Combining skills and load-out creates more possible playstyles than you’d normally be able to explore in one playthrough.
Are you ready to take back the frontier from the dark forces of demonic corruption and earn the right to move on to a better world? The Barren Lands call you, Gunslinger!
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I often see this game being called an immersive sim, but I don’t quite agree. While it does have the level design typical of the genre, it lacks variety in how you can interact with the world. At its core, this is an open-world shooter with a strong emphasis on stealth. Sure, you can try to play without it, but the huge number of enemies and their high damage make that approach not very pleasant — especially in the early stages of the game. Another thing that hurts aggressive playstyles is the lack of resources. While the ammo problem gets solved fairly quickly, the shortage of healing items will be felt throughout the entire game. The shooting mechanics are well done — hitting enemy weak spots feels impactful and satisfying. The voice acting is generally pleasant, and with rare exceptions, listening to NPCs is enjoyable. The soundtrack is okay — nothing special, but it doesn’t get annoying. The only real standout is the song in the ending, which is genuinely good. As for Dead Man’s Promise DLC, it’s quite solid: more than 10 new enemy types, lots of new weapons. Unfortunately, there’s a downside — it’s very short. You can finish it in 5 hours, and even less if you don’t clear out…2 found this helpful
Very fun little zombie cowboy adventure.
[h1] Blood West - Wild West's tales for Patient Cowboys [/h1] [b]Overall Rating:[/b] 8/10 (Recommended) [h2] The Good [/h2] [list] [b]Top-tier immersion:[/b] Genuinely spooky, dark Wild West setting. [b]Satisfying gunplay:[/b] Retro look, but the weapons feel heavy and crisp. [b]Cool art style:[/b] Nostalgic, low-poly 90s visuals make monsters look extra creepy. [b]Epic sound design:[/b] Brilliant audio cues let you hunt enemies by sound alone. [/list] [h2] The Bad [/h2] [list] [b]Stealth is king:[/b] Head-on melee or loud gunfights drain your health and wallet. [b]Inventory & Backtracking:[/b] Too much walking and playing Tetris with loot on massive maps. [h2] The Ugly [/h2] [list] [b]Boring boss fights:[/b] The bosses are just weird, clunky, and not fun to play against. [b]Late-game gets too easy:[/b] Once you get rich and geared up, the horror tension fades away. [/list] [hr][/hr] [h2] The Verdict [/h2]Not a run-and-gun shooter. If you love taking it slow, sneaking around, and soaking in a creepy atmosphere, buy it.
challenging but overall very fun
Although I enjoyed playing this game, I will very much admit that it had it's flaws. Inventory management, I won't dock too many points for this because I truly believe this is just a necessary evil in games like this. Doesn't mean it's not annoying though, but I will admit there is a certain satisfaction to walking up to a trader with a packed-to-the-brim inventory. I once heard a saying that goes "Every game with a stealth bar mechanic is pretty much the same game" and honestly I have to say that logic applies to this game a lot. Just by reading that sentence, you can probably already imagine the kind of gameplay you're getting into. Exploring points of interest, and even just the map in general is largely walking/crouching around, throwing rocks to distract enemies, taking a glance at your stealth bar and top of HUD (yellow triangles show direction of mobs that are in the process of detecting you) to locate mobs and decide how to go about taking them down. You are fragile in this game, enemies often taking you down in 3-4 hits, and the healing process being a slow heal over time. Getting chased by only 2 or 3 enemies , when not properly prepared, is very threatening.…
What an amazing game! I'm halfway through the third map and it has beenso much fun. Build possibilities, different playstyles are to your liking. It is a stealth game, but i try to run and gun where possible for fun. The enemy variety is very well done. There are plenty different enemies introduced with each map. The devs also implemented some funy innuendo with numbers, which i won't spoil hehhehhh. Thankfully i have the dlc's waiting for me after i'm done with the main campaign. The only thing i'm bummed about is that this game would have been even more amazing if there was a co-opn mode.
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