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Weird West (or Weird Western) is a genre of fiction that uses the Wild West period of American History as a foundation and then adds fantasy/supernatural elements to it. So stories where gunslingers encounter zombies, vampires, demons, robots, or any other creatures that wouldn't otherwise be present in a standard Western.

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[Game] West of Dead - a rogue-like twin-stick shooter with main character voiced by Ron Perlman (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago by jericho_cross to c/weirdwest

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West of Dead is a really fun game. It's a cover-based twin-stick shooter, so there's a top-down view and you crouch behind cover in between shooting bad guys. It's also a roguelike, so you get random weapons each run and unlock permanent perks with the currency you collect. I'm typically terrible at roguelikes but I fell in love with this one and actually beat it.

Here's a trailer. You can get it on Steam, Switch, Xbox, Playstation, wherever.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Gave it a solid go. Not exactly to my taste, but a great game for people more interested in twin stick shooters than I am.

The VO work by Perlman is flat out amazing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

This looks really cool. I like the Mignola-esque art style and I'm a fan of Ron Perlman

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To anyone looking to check this out, it's built like Curse of the Dead Gods. If you like that you'll like this I imagine. I only have a few hours in so far but I'll definitely burn some time playing this.