Weird West Released

Back in 2017, Arkane Studios’ founder Raphael Colantonio left his company in order to focus on smaller-scale projects as part of WolfEye Studios. Several years later, Weird West – this new team’s first game – is now live, priced at $39.99 or your regional equivalent.

Described as an isometric immersive sim, Weird West is available on Steam, the Epic Games Store, PlayStation and Xbox, with the GOG version experiencing some weird delay. Here’s the official release trailer:

And the game’s description:

Discover a dark fantasy reimagining of the Wild West where lawmen and gunslingers share the frontier with fantastical creatures. Journey through the story of a group of atypical heroes, written into legend by the decisions you make in an unforgiving land. Each journey is unique and tailored to the actions taken – a series of high stakes adventures where everything counts and the world reacts to the choices you make. Form a posse or venture forth alone into an otherworldly confines of the Weird West and make each legend your own.

Weird West: Dark Fantasy reimagining of the Wild West where lawmen and gunslingers share the frontier with fantastical creatures, each playing with their own rules and their own peculiar motives.

Intertwined Destinies: Discover the world through origin stories of different characters, moving from one character’s journey to the next until all converge in a final chapter.

Bespoke Experience: Each playthrough is unique as the game tailors the story to the player’s actions and past choices for an ideal dramatic arc.

Immersive Sim: Weird West supports different styles of play in a simulated sandbox world where characters, factions, and even places react to a player’s decisions.

Then, you might want to check out this quick message from Raphael Colantonio:

Hello, everyone! Raf here.

We are excited and anxious to have you play Weird West and hope you will like the many things the game has to offer. We’ve been working very hard on this baby, for many years, with a small team of passionate experts in the immersive sim genre.

For Julien and I, our passion started with being fans of Ultima 7 and Ultima Underworld when we were kids; the immersive and simulation values we experienced back then as fascinated kids stayed with us to this day and forged our drive ever since. I created Arkane Studios in ‘99. Julien joined me shortly after and was a key member behind Arx Fatalis, Dark Messiah, all the way to Dishonored.

Weird West is our first attempt at a top-down immersive sim. It’s a genre that hasn’t really been attempted too often since immersive sims are traditionally in first person, but we believe the values translate well to the top-down angle, and it brings that comfortable nostalgic Ultima vibe that takes us back to our childhood. Because, ultimately, that’s why we do the games we do; we want to give to the new generations what we received as kids: the gift of immersion. A world where players allow themselves to be whoever they want and invest themselves emotionally in the characters they meet and the places they explore.

We will keep on fixing, improving, tweaking, and balancing the game post-release utilizing community feedback via the Weird West Official Discord server and through our Suggestion Board.

Welcome to the Weird West—we hope you enjoy your stay.