The feeling that you want more from game but you know you won't get it....

You will feel weird.... as the name of the game itself, due to the fact that you do not know how you feel about this game, on the one hand you like it, on the other hand you feel that something is wrong. Weird West is, how could I describe it.... weird. I finished 100% of this game with all achievments and came to the conclusion that the game is fun, you can be intrigued by the atmosphere, lore, characters. But....

Gameplay is initially incredibly cool, I even thought it was similar to combat like hotline miami or other such games. Shooting weapons, using skills of different characters, melee combat is very interesting. But after some time, after many random encounters, it can become tedious, but this is just my opinion. I can safely say that the best thing about this game is the music and sound design. Each weapon sounds crispy good, the background music is a combination of guitars from the wild west but also dark atmosphere. The dialogues in this game are also very good, however, some people may get bored with constantly reading a lot of dialogues after say 20 hours of playing.

The locations in this game are... almost the same. Sometimes very interesting places will happen, but we often appear in similar cities, similar caves, similar temples or similar other places. The story in the game is interesting and intriguing. The game is very simple in its concept, but what surprises me the most is how much work the developers have put into details that you won't even notice after many hours of playing. I even thought if it is needed but I appreciate the work on it very much. The most random characters you kill, their families, loved ones can seek revenge on you. Characters you've seen once may divorce and change their surname. A wind that you don't even know exists can push the fire in another direction. There are so many details in this game that you won't even pay attention to, and somehow during the game you feel that the game it's not quite ready, as if it was still early access. The economy in this game, buying, collecting money for something special for you is, in my opinion, the weak point of this game. After collecting a lot of money, you don't really have anything to spend it on. There are not so many very different things in this game, weapons, armor only change their kind of quality.
Every choice you make is significant and cannot be changed, every death is permanent, this gives a lot of realism to the role-playing but the rpg elements in this game are not top notch. Deciding on problems may be one of the main elements of an rpg but there is no such thing as creating your character the way you think. You just add a new skill every now and then that you may not even use a second time because it requires a lot of energy that doesn't regenerate at all. A.I. of the opponents and your companions is very weak. They act in a way to either get you at all costs or they don't know what's going on. The game also gives you a lot of freedom to make decisions, you can kill anyone, it won't affect whether you finish the game or not but it can influence certain decisions. Problems can be approached in many ways but after many hours, you don't want to approach those problems in any other way than beating them to a pulp or in stealth to avoid combat.
At the end, I can say that Weird West is a good game, you can sink into this world for many hours, but after hours the game starts to get tiresome. After a couple of hours you can tell that you've seen most of the stuff, but the character story and general mood is still intriguing and you want to keep playing to see more. The sound design is awesome.
You feel disappointed that the game could have been even better if only they had worked on it some more in certain aspects. They are good with the music, why I often heard the same loop throughout the game and at some moments the music was extremely good and atmospheric? Cool idea for combat but you feel it's not enough and it bores you after a while. Such a big world universe created and so few items in the game? What's all the rpg for if the game features weapons and armor that can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

+ sound design, the characters and their dialogues, the story and mood of the game world, a lot of freedom of decision-making, cool combat but not for a long time
- little variety of items, places are often repetitive, a lot of wasted potential, A.I. is stupid, after first hours you feel that you have already seen everything.

I really want to give it a positive revue.

But.

Even in the first chapter, there a bugs in missions. Locations.

Game release mid 2022. Bugs: mid 2024.

I followed this game from it's announcement. I love the immersive sim done in the way it was for Weird West. Takes me back to when I was a little monster playing CRPGs on my mother's old PC.

Weird West just gets a lot of things right and it makes the game what it is. The ways you can approach encounters utilizing full stealth or "stealth after the fact" by killing everybody in the room. The emergent game play that comes with challenging yourself to race the clock to finish everything. It's just great and I don't think a text review does it justice.

I recommend checking out the mod store in game. The first person mod is great for a play through and worth checking out but I do prefer the overhead.

This is easily one my favorite games to go to and just try crazy stuff in. I hope Raphaël Colantonio and his team continue to work in this space and create more titles like this.