Far Far West

Fine IG some of the rng like the wishing well means you can lose a run for nothing just rng says you die

If the premise of magic cowboy/girl robots fighting skeletons (and eventually aliens in a December update) didn't tip you off, this game is distilled whimsy. A small group of people just said "hey, what if we just took all the fun stuff from our favorite games and mashed them together?" and made it work. The game is easy to pick up casually, and has an opt-in difficulty system that adds progressively more complexity as you go higher rather than just crank up enemy spawns and damage and calling it a day. It is still a relatively easy game even at the highest difficulty setting for better or worse, but the devs are presently planning ways to increase the maximum potential difficulty in engaging methods (currently slated to at least get initial implementations some time this October). Though the game is currently in early access, the devs are keenly keeping an eye on game balance to make sure all of your options feel fun and viable. They also keep an updated roadmap of planned features while being very transparent if things get pushed out, and are active on the game's official Discord channel to get feedback and ideas from the public. At the time of this writing, a new update added a character skin that was wholly designed by a fan, and a prior update added voice clips entirely submitted by players in a public dev request, rather than cut corners and use AI like other small developers might do. There's even a spot in the main hub where they showcase fanart. It's rather refreshing to see such engaged developers, personally. If I had to list complaints about the game in its current state, it's that meta progression/endgame is very shallow. Once you have a build and/or increase your personal skill to consistently handle Nightmare mode (the highest current difficulty), then there's not much else to do other than grind out the upgrade progression on all of the weapons (which is finite, if tedious). [Note: The roadmap has additional endgame content slated sometime Q1 of 2027, with extra content in general being added across updates to make progression more variable than your mission's difficulty selection.] Spell-focused builds are also presently very basic, only having different flavors of cooldown-reductions to cast things more. This being said, the spell system as a whole is also roadmap'd for a revamp on Q1 2027. As you might have guessed by all the times I mentioned updates and the roadmap in this review, the devs are keeping themselves at work to make a truly complete game rather than dumping out an Early Access cashgrab from 15 minutes of Youtube content fame. I have full confidence that they will deliver, and will gladly be there for every content milestone.

So much fun! I love it.

Loads of fun and plenty of build crafting. Gameloop is repetitive, but addicting and I always find myself wanting to level up my gear just a little bit more

Delightful aesthetic and fun gameplay loop. Devs are always great at communication and have continued to improve the game since EA launch.

Fantastic game. It has my favorite parts of Deep Rock Galactics team based horde shooter and collecting, Helldivers 2 open map and quest style, Overwatch like weapons and combat, all while being fast paced and with an amazing art design. I got hooked as soon as I started playing. Can't wait to see where this goes once out of early access.

amazing game need to put more hours into it. yeehaw :3