Reminds me of a wild west game concept I came up with years ago about some mysterious mesa maze in the desert where you select one of various characters who travel there and have different supernatural experiences. Like a bounty hunter chasing a criminal into there but ends up being confronted with his dark past, or some passengers of a wagon passing through who end up having some Picnic at Hanging Rock experience
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People have been trying to make an open world weird western (OWWW!!!) for years and years. I love this post by the creator of the roguelike Land of Strangers because it tells the story of a dozen people having this idea and failing to finish it.
There is a small existing canon of Western RLs, with a few short 7DRLs and other game jam entries, and some abandoned and ongoing projects. Many Western RLs seem to land in the Weird West category.
The classic, Iād say, is Abura Tan from 2001-2004, which remains extremely appealing, even in itās unfinished state. Thereās also Gravebound for Android, which I havenāt tried in a while, but it seems to receive attention from its devs.
Finished 7DRLs Iāve found are Wild West RL and Dead Horizons (sf/weird west). From another game jam is Tiny Frontier Saga, by /u/chilly_durango on here, I think.
An oddity is the abandoned The Last Rogue, which seemed to have a nice overall vision, though I donāt think they ran very far with it. Potentially a Roguelite, I also recently ran across a project in very early development, called Duster. Weāll see where that leads.
Iām curious if anything else crops up here that I havenāt manage to sniff out yet
Thereās so much more you can do with this setting; like, I donāt even know how many of those games allow you to visibly play as a black guy. Thatās an idea right there. Thatās the danger of the weird west setting, you start thinking of all the cool things that donāt get done, and then you fail to implement them.
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I would love a weird west game that didnāt white wash slavery or attribute the apocalyptic world threatening onslaught of the supernatural to indigenous people wanting revenge against genociders.
Oh, and while weāre at it, the Pinkertons and Texas Rangers should be villain groups and not good dudes fighting against the supernatural. Voodoo shouldnāt be mostly in service of evil black characters if you include it at all, and I would love feminists not depicted as evil man hating witches who are all universally smoking hot.
Sorry, Deadlands is a bit of a hot topic for me. >.>;
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Wild West first person dungeon crawler
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A Castlevania where Dracula disguised himself as a railroad baron would be pretty cool
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The monster who didnāt belong in this world fled across the desert, and the Belmont followed
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Expansive, slightly creepy levels; heavily lined art style; repetitive audio cues; occasional aimlessness and objective mystery: my weird west game is Outlaws
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A racing game where instead of cars on an asphalt track, you race as balls on a stretchy rubber sheet. the sides of the sheet (where the damage bars would be in F-Zero) are fixed, but the rest of the track can stretch and deform as you roll through.
You have two buttons, Roll and Dig. Roll is essentially the gas pedal, whereas Dig makes you sort of ālurchā down into the ground/sheet. Think along the lines of the button you press in snowboarding/skateboarding games that lowers your center of gravity to go faster and start jumps. Except holding it in this case will actually slow you down because youāre digging into the sheet more, and thus more friction. This would essentially make it three buttons in one: simultaneously the brake button, the TURN HARDER button, and the jump button, all depending on the road-context and how long you press it for.
Different balls have different characteristics, maybe one has better grip but itās a bit on the lighter side, one is a bit slick but itās heavy and deforms the sheet more.
Lighter balls will have their trajectories altered by the deformation wake of heavier ones, as if exerting a gravitational pull.
Maybe the sheet goes slack in some parts and you have to handle that differently.
who knows
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chibi robo + ganbare neo poke kun
youāre just an anthropomorphized game console trying to survive in a house full of bigger more powerful consoles, scavenging for batteries, stealing wifi passwords, etc
but as you play and progress in the game you unlock new āminigamesā, the games played on you.
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replace all the indie platformers with rail shooters
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watch dogs 3 is about a member of the american diaspora living in berlin. theyāre poly and into crypto. some members of the dedsec discord are doing a leftist podcast in brooklyn and you get to fly there for the second half and hack airports during a government shutdown and help them drive cops out of the local Anarchists of the United States chapter. side mission where you get to taze ben shapiro
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I didnāt look at the thread title and thought this was real and now I am extremely pissed
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Iām surprised there isnāt a Time Crisis PSVR game and you simulate the arcade pedal control by like, standing/kneeling or something.
I think Killzone 3 could probably also be ported with a few concessions.
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That game was ridiculously tiring to play, but pretty fun.
A game built around the conceit that youāre playing a 16-bit era action game on a emulator, and thus is built with the idea that you have access to savestates.
I played through Gargoyleās Quest 2 with a rewind button and at the end of the day, I feel like the game was much better for it.
In other words, I think some older games are so hard that they are already this
an idea i want to include if i ever make a game is having to press 5 on the keyboard to insert imaginary coins and 1 to start, as if its being played in mame
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the division 3: 410,757,864,530 dead cops
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