The developer went on to explain that the company wants to iron some stuff out because it's wanting to stick to its long history of delivering the best immersive sim possible. He added that while the people playing it were loving their time in the world, the beta also brought to light some changes that needed to be made. In a short video, the Dishonored co-creator explained that WolfEye had been holding a closed beta for the game. On Wednesday, Colantonio took to Twitter to announce that Weird West is being moved back from its expected January 11 release date, to March 31. RELATED: Samurai Game Trek to Yomi Confirmed for Xbox Game Pass ![]() The top-down isometric RPG has been described by its developers as being an "immersive sim" that will offer a kind of dark fantasy in the Wild West that combines cowboys with fantastical creatures. It turns out that WolfEye and Devolver Digital have decided the game needs a bit more work and have pushed it back from its January 11 release date to later in the spring.įormer Dishonored developer Raphael Colantonio first announced Weird West back in 2019 and the game has been steaming towards release ever since. Bennett (and millions of anonymous people, who keep telling this cliché every single day and their children simply don’t give a fuck).Developer WolfEye Studios and publisher Devolver Digital are still planning on releasing Weird West in 2022, but the game won't be arriving when it was originally planned. Here it comes: “Believe in yourself”, by Roy T. You’re most invited to go through our website and social media channels to learn more details and to keep thin interest awake, I have a wonderful and completely rubbish motivational quote, as usual. I hope that I managed to wake your interest in Ritual. It’s a great fun to learn Weird West, play Weird West and, hopefully, if everything goes well, sell Weird West to players who want more West after finishing RDR2. In my personal opinion, it’s definitely the most interesting out of all less known genres out there. Not too many, but some of them truly significant and more – this is what can be said about video games exploring the topic of Weird West. And as a fan of online card games, I strongly recommend Eternal – praised by both media and players alike. SilverLoad is already 24 years old (23 if we’re talking about PlayStation version) and probably not too many players heard of it, but how about Darkwatch, Blood and its sequel, Alone in the Dark 3 and the biggest of them all – Read Dead Redemption!Īs Polish I have to mention a very well-done Hard West, a turn-based tactical game made by my friends from Warsaw – Creative Forge Studio. It sounds freakin’ awesome to be able to mix traditional Spaghetti Western tropes and archetypes with hordes of monsters from the native-American hell, spells and curses, Gatling guns and witches, gunslinging and sharpshooting with wrights and redneck-talking, you’ll see for yourself and you’ll love it, I promise!Īnyway, it’s curious that there haven’t really been too many video games set in the Weird West, but still, those which are mingling with the topic are usually pretty well-known (and some of them even got hell of a revenue too!). So, to be completely clear, according to English Wikipedia, Weird West is “a subgenre that combines elements of the Western with another genre, usually horror, occult, fantasy or science fiction.” Think Deadlands, The Wild Wild West, Jonah Hex etc. But what does it mean exactly? Well, there are numbers of references in the popculture, among novels and short stories, comic books, TV series and movies, and of course – video games. Sounds good? I bet it does, cowboy!Īs our setting we’ve decided to pick a-not-too-much-explored Weird West. ![]() It’s going to be a 3D top-down hybrid of horde mode, base defense, horror and twin-stick shooter, all set in the Wild West environment with unnatural and terrifying elements, suffused with a thick and nutritious sauce of a mature and complex story, exploring American myths and native-American legends. ![]() The thing is, we at iFun4all are currently working over an exceptionally curious game, called Ritual. It’s all very interesting and tempting, but our head of marketing asked me to write about something else, definitely less boring and predictable – the Weird West! It’s my first (pure evil) business developer’s blog post this year, so I should probably be writing about the great prospects this new 2019 will bring, new trends, platforms, plans for the next 12 months etc. Being a (pure evil) business developer #10: Y’all, care to get yourself spooked out in the Ol’ Weird West?
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