Dead Horizon: Origin

short, free shooting gallery, but really just a bunch of text with very little shooting and annoying typewriter effect, just as annoying text display sound and [b]no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ settings[/b]. there's a sound test for no reason to experience all the sfx separately. a lore book also with noisy typewriter effect, just like in real books, and all that text doesn't even appear in the book, gotta click a million times instead. and finally, the inspiration page is a single long-ass paragraph. [b]no skip intro/cutscene button[/b] either, so every time you start a new game, [b]because progress isn't saved either[/b], gotta click through the whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing. not sure why you'd want to replay it but I wanted to test saving and stuff. the actual game would be servicable, move the cursor to the bottom to draw/holster weapon (weirdly that's kinda how duels work in the first call of juarez), then aim and shoot, but it's lazy and [b]incredibly tedious[/b] with all the clicking in-between. mostly because [b]instead of showing all the text that fits the text area, they went with short individual sentences[/b] to tell the story. and as always, there's more. or in this case, no more. looking at the…

Dead Horizon: Origin is a very short western adventure that feels like it was made to give me one quick, focused story rather than a huge game. I play as Bonnie Starr, a former farm girl who has become a gunslinger, and the whole thing is built around her trying to find redemption while living with the consequences of her past. The game mixes point and click adventure sections with quickdraw gunfights, and the western setting gives it a strong identity right from the start. The shooting is probably the part I remember most. The game is controlled entirely with the mouse, and the gunfights are based around reacting quickly and taking down enemies before they get the chance to shoot me. There are more than five quickdraw duels, and I like how simple the system is because it fits the old western arcade feeling the developer was going for. It is not a deep shooting system, but it does not need to be. The point is getting into the moment and seeing whether I can draw faster than the person standing opposite me. I also like the atmosphere quite a bit. The pixel art has an old fashioned look that works really well with the dusty western setting, and the music does a lot of the heavy lif…

damn. really good but I wish it was more long. the music was great reminds me of the 90s and the gameplay was sweet had a fun time. 7.9/10

I'm not usually one to enjoy games with these pixel graphics, but I enjoy westerns so I thought i'd check it out regardless. No regrets. I love the idea of needing to draw the gun instead of having the gun magically appear in your hand, makes it feel a bit more realistic. I like the relatability of the character having a bad reputation to slowly getting worse from being forced to do bad things because of others, drinking & gambling, etc.. I just wish the game was much, much longer.

Quick but very fun, love the visuals and the musics great, gameplay is fun. Only complaint is that its not longer, im looking forward to the sequel? extension? remake? thats being made :D

Love cowboys all the time. This game is easy but full of fun. The short game together with the written story illustrate hard life of the wild west and a rough destiny of a female gunslinger.