You may simply affiliate New Blood Interactive with video games like Ultrakill and Nightfall, however the studio’s publishing efforts embrace greater than the fashionable wave of boomer shooters. Video games with an immsim bent like Fallen Aces, Gloomwood, and Blood West fill out its catalog; because it notes on the lattermost recreation’s Steam retailer web page, “BLOOD WEST IS SO DAMN GOOD WE DECIDED TO PUBLISH IT AFTER IT WAS ALREADY OUT!”
If that endorsement has you satisfied, you may decide up the sport without spending a dime on the Epic Video games Retailer till tomorrow. It is also obtainable on Steam for half off via the tip of the winter sale on Jan. 5, when you choose to maintain your library in a single place.
We did not overview the sport, nevertheless it sits at a snug “Very Constructive” person overview ranking on Steam. It actually wears its inspirations on its sleeve, with the voice actor for Thief’s Garrett, Stephen Russell, enjoying the protagonist in Blood West. As an “undead gunslinger,” you slink round shadows and collect talent upgrades to kill monsters and break a curse that is been placed on you.
I could not inform you personally whether or not it lives as much as the hype of the immsim classics that it homages, however after at the moment, I am unsure I do know what an immsim is anymore. Both means, free’s free! You possibly can seize Blood West without spending a dime on EGS till Dec. 21, 2025.
Oh yeah, and it is not a sequel to Bizarre West or Evil West. All these video games got here out in the identical yr in a uncommon instance of convergent evolution.