FANDOM NAME: West of Loathing WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: It's a Weird West humorous RPG with stick figures. Spinoff of sorts of long-running free browser RPG Kingdom of Loathing, but playable with zero knowledge of the original (I only tried KOL after playing this game and had no problems). Set in fantasy Wild West filled with (even more) peril after The Cows Came Home…from some kind of Hell dimension. Also contains a Necromancer, cult of some kind of Elder Deity, and alien robots (but leaning toward Eldritch side), to say nothing of friendlier ghosts, plant-based goblins and bean magic. There is no Ministry of Silly Walks, but there is an option for player character to perform them. Teeming with puns. You will want to look at descriptions of everything.
Battles are turn-based. There is the food/drink capacity (varying on build) and you can have a pardner + maybe summons depending on pardner and your own class. No free saves, but no real death either, just a bit of a setback (strike one gets you to the entrance of the area, strike two sends you to the main hub, but traveling doesn’t take much time and resting removes the effect). Pardner serves the function of the quest log.
Some grind is necessary, but I managed to finish my last playthrough of the base game within a day of nothing else to do - but with a walkthrough+previous experience to speed things through. But for a short and simple affair, it’s packed with content in terms of worldbuilding. It also has some interesting RP opportunities, like repeating certain actions giving you permanent traits - and it’s not a trick based on "moon logic". Of course being stabbed by cacti a lot will affect your skin. This also increases replayability - and each class/pardner is worth at least one spin, and you might be interested in trying out different horses too.
There is also a murder mystery DLC inspired by Winchester Mansion.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): GOG, Steam, Switch and Stadia.
West of Loathing (Video Game)
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT:
It's a Weird West humorous RPG with stick figures. Spinoff of sorts of long-running free browser RPG Kingdom of Loathing, but playable with zero knowledge of the original (I only tried KOL after playing this game and had no problems). Set in fantasy Wild West filled with (even more) peril after The Cows Came Home…from some kind of Hell dimension. Also contains a Necromancer, cult of some kind of Elder Deity, and alien robots (but leaning toward Eldritch side), to say nothing of friendlier ghosts, plant-based goblins and bean magic. There is no Ministry of Silly Walks, but there is an option for player character to perform them. Teeming with puns. You will want to look at descriptions of everything.
Battles are turn-based. There is the food/drink capacity (varying on build) and you can have a pardner + maybe summons depending on pardner and your own class. No free saves, but no real death either, just a bit of a setback (strike one gets you to the entrance of the area, strike two sends you to the main hub, but traveling doesn’t take much time and resting removes the effect). Pardner serves the function of the quest log.
Some grind is necessary, but I managed to finish my last playthrough of the base game within a day of nothing else to do - but with a walkthrough+previous experience to speed things through. But for a short and simple affair, it’s packed with content in terms of worldbuilding. It also has some interesting RP opportunities, like repeating certain actions giving you permanent traits - and it’s not a trick based on "moon logic". Of course being stabbed by cacti a lot will affect your skin. This also increases replayability - and each class/pardner is worth at least one spin, and you might be interested in trying out different horses too.
There is also a murder mystery DLC inspired by Winchester Mansion.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): GOG, Steam, Switch and Stadia.