There are five characters in total that you will inhabit, and each of them has their own journey and dilemma to engage with. The prologue ends when the first town gets rebuilt, and it’s here the game teaches you all of the basics you need to survive with. From stealth being an optional, but beneficial method to getting through an area filled with bad guys to how elements interact like oil and a spark for truly devastating combos. As you pursue these side quests, the game will be introducing you to each of the game’s mechanics and systems.

The town Sheriff asks you to follow some other leads that should eventually take you to your husband. As you follow what little threads you can pull, you’ll be drawn to the town of Grackle that’s been absolutely ravaged, and not a single store is functional. Things really get rolling once you’re in control of a bounty hunter named Jane Bell who is searching for her abducted husband. And I’m okay with that, because I find that less is more here, allowing you to figure things out for yourself. The game begins with a very cryptic cutscene with little explanation before you’re dropped into the world of Weird West. Weird West is every bit the isometric wild west Dishonored you think it is, but manages to keep some of its secrets to be discovered by experimenting through its gameplay. This is due to the multiple protagonists and bizarre, yet engaging world that is molded by your actions or inactions. This genre-bending oddity of a game shouldn’t work, but it thankfully does. WolfEye Studios, made up of former Arkane developers who know the genre, have made an immersive sim through the guise of an action RPG. Immersion doesn’t have to rely on the first-person perspective to be effective, and Weird West is evidence of that.

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