Bounty hunter Jane Bell is best with rifles and pistols, pig man Cl’ens Qui’g prefers a full-on assault with melee and shotguns, while Across Rivers hints towards a bow and stealth build. Something that helps is to lean into each character's speciality, giving each of the five chapters a slightly different feel. As such Weird West asks to player to put an emphasis on being aware of their surroundings, as being able to ignite an oil lamp or kick over a toxic barrel can make all the difference, while things like shifting weather impact on exactly what the player can successfully interact with.
Like other immersive sims the player is given some flexibility in terms of how they approach each challenge with the ability for things to switch on a dime there’s a frenetic feel whenever stealth options fail, for instance, particularly with supernatural enemies that can wipe out the player's health very quickly.
There are also more traditional quests for a game of this setting, such as bounties to collect, but Weird West is at its best when it gets strange with it.įrom a gameplay perspective, Weird West is combat-centric. Some of the highlights are a town being plagued by bad dreams and strange deaths, being able to talk to ghosts and pick up quests to help them find closure, and helping a pigman break a curse that means he can only speak in rhyme. There are also some interesting side quests that help expand the sense of Weird West of being a living, breathing place. Over the course of the game the player will become a cursed pigman tasked with destroying a magic tree that eats souls, a messianic werewolf trying to save his people from being hunted to extinction, and a spiritualist who delves into dream worlds that match the aesthetic of Twin Peaks. The most well-rounded arc of the bunch is that of Across Rivers, a hunter from the fictional Lost Fire Nation, whose story was developed an Anishinaabe writer and steers clear of the tropes of indigenous populations being inscrutable, mystical cultures. This fate takes the story goes into strange places, even more so than some other weird Western tales.
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