Blood West

Amazing game with original "Thief" and "Blood" vibes. Excellent atmosphere, great sound design and music. Good difficulty. Graphics suit this game very well. Big areas to explore. At first - really challenging, later on you can become a very efficient killer, and it's fun. Revolver and shotguns are super fun to use. Most importantly, this game rewards you for exploration. It's such a rarity these days that every single corner can give you something useful, but you have to look for it, otherwise a lot of stuff can/will be left behind. It's been a long time since I've enjoyed playing a game this much. Stealth is the bread and butter of this game and it works perfectly. I liked that you can headshot someone with a loud revolver and the enemies don't rush at you in an instant. They usually run to the victim and then start the search. If they spot you and you need to run - you usually can outrun every enemy, with a few exceptions, and get out of their line of sight to safety. Ammo is pretty scarce early on. But here is a tip, you can save and exit near the vendor and his inventory will refresh after loading, so if you have the money - you can buy a big amount of bullets this way. It just takes a bit of time though. BUT, this game has one big ass flaw. The saving system is atrocious. There are no checkpoints, no auto-saves when completing a quest, nothing. If you don't die or you don't manually save and exit (there is no option to just save the game and continue to play without going back to the main menu) - you can and will lose progress if the game crashes. Once I lost 7!! f*cking hours (was a big, fun weekend session) of game progress. I played the second scenario/chapter and was more than halfway done and... "error" crashes to desktop and... last save... 7h ago! 7 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hours ago. I dropped the game for 5 days before going back in... I had to redo everything. I lost all xp, all items and unique weapons. Nothing saved... This saving system sucks ass. Give me a quick save option or at least manual saving.with several save slots. The second crash in chapter 3 deleted about 16 minutes of progress (I was constantly doing the "save and exit" strat), so not that big of a deal, but still. Even games from 30 years ago had a quick save button while this all-around amazing game - doesn't. It blows my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mind. Anyway. After losing the progress. I couldn't recapture the "fun" I had before that. I think that the last chapter was the weakest, didn't like the level design that much and because some enemies are just too much of a pain in the ass, like the one who lives in the blood pools, and spits at you while doing squats like a motherf*cker. Annoying af. There is also one monster type that can become invisible like the Predator from the movies. But you can learn to deal with it using a shotgun or other heavy damage weapon. Overall. a super fun game. Quite nostalgic with its presentation and sound design. Just fix the saving system!

I have been playing this game since the start of the early access release, but somehow never got to review it. Now that a new roguelike mode is coming out because the devs refuse to stop being cool, guess it deserves the extra +.01 % in the positive rating. I'll make this one short. Did you play Weird West and are desperate for something alike, or enjoy similar "wild west but with fantastical elements" comics? Did you think Bone Tomahawk was underrated? Do you enjoy slowly becoming an unstoppable angel of death? Do you enjoy games that allow you to play however you want and explore large maps full of high-risk-high-reward systems that dare you to venture in hostile territory for shiny gold? Get this game then. Everything, from the gunplay, the perk system, the trading, the exploration, secrets and presentation form a great whole that is a total blast to play through, and replay multiple times with new playstyles or builds. At worst, the stealth system can be a bit basic, but even then, it's still fun to stab monsters so damn hard you make their heads explode. Stephen Russell voices the protagonist. This is just a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good game.