Even Purgatory wants cops, apparently. West Of Dead, a tense twin-stick shooter about holding the useless the place they belong, was introduced ultimately night time’s XO19 present, and it seems a proper stunner. Hellboy (the great one) himself Ron Perlman lends his gravel-filled throat to a protagonist who’s half supernatural sheriff and half Marvel’s Ghost Rider. Y’see, typically the useless simply don’t keep useless, find yourself in a cursed land forgotten by gods and demons alike – Wyoming.
Bit daft calling your city Purgatory there, lads. That’s virtually asking for some supernatural shenanigans to go down.
West Of Dead is a bloody trendy procedural roguelike the place you gun down skeletons by the dozen. Taking cowl’s the identify of the game right here. Like Enter The Gungeon, you possibly can dive over tables and tombs to take cowl – although it seems like that’ll be extra needed with West Of Dead’s slower, seemingly harder-hitting tempo.
This is the debut challenge from builders Upstream Arcade, a studio shaped of a bunch of ex-Lionhead of us. Weird soar, that, going from Fable’s saturated fantasy to a terrifying hyper-stylish shooter, however I reckon it may very well be neat. Always up for a great twin-stick.
Xbox of us can play it in open beta proper now (boo, hiss), however we’ll get an opportunity to journey West Of Dead on PC someday subsequent 12 months. It’ll hit Xbox Game Pass when it does, so anticipate a list on the Microsoft retailer. Other storefronts haven’t been confirmed.
