Bounty Trail

Bounty Trail is a relatively casual Western-themed pixel-art game. It is focused on exploration, resource management, and some light RPG elements. The main gameplay loop consists of going out to hunt one bounty at a time. Each bounty is placed in a randomised map, and you have a fixed number of days to find and confront the bounty. The maps start off unexplored - you need to ride around and explore. On each map, you will find farmsteads where you can get information about your target, abandoned wagons that can be searched for loot, vantage points that reveal some of the surrounding area, and a single small town where you can buy items, gamble, or sleep at a hotel. The maps also have random encounters and different types of terrain. Travelling costs energy, which needs either sleep or food to replenish, so you have to decide how much to explore and when to start hunting your target in earnest. To confront the bounty, you have to find them and catch them. You then have two choices - you can try to convince them to surrender, which is based on how much information you've found out about them, or you can have a shootout (which you will have to do anyway, if you fail to convince them), which is based on your aiming skill and how much energy you've managed to conserve before the fight. Your character's skills you can upgrade between missions using the XP you've earned. The skill tree is relatively light, with only four branches (speed, perception, aim, and negotiation), each with 5 ranks, some of which give extra abilities when unlocked. Highlights: - Nice simplistic low-colour pixel art - Fairly casual experience, engaging but not too stressful to play - The hunts can be a little repetitive, but this is helped by some bounties having different special behaviours to make them more unique - The game is relatively short overall - a full run can be completed in maybe 3 hours. I think this is fine though, as if it were much longer it might wear out its welcome. - Two playstyles (negotiation vs shooting first) - Multiple endings - Its simple graphics and slow pace means this game should run well on any device. Note: I was one of the testers on this game, so I received it for free. I had fun testing it, though!