Most importantly, sticking your nose in every corner of West of Loathing isn’t just beneficial for improving your character’s stats. Flush a toilet for an XP gain, search a haystack for a needle or dig through a mine cart for a hunk of meat ore (West of Loathing has a meat-based economy), and insult yourself in a mirror to gain a combat buff because you angered yourself so much. Early on you’ll come across machinery you can’t fix and safes you can’t crack, so you’ll be crisscrossing the map and revisiting certain areas repeatedly That’s fine, though, because there’s lots to do and these areas are almost always rewarding to fully explore: just about everything you see has some utility. One smells too foul to investigate until you have an item that affords you stench protection. Some locations aren’t fully accessible at first-for instance. Soon your map will be crowded with towns, mines, caves, forts, homesteads, landmarks, and other areas of interest, like a jelly bean museum, a circus, or a Daveyard (which is like a graveyard, but only Daves are buried there). Once you’ve acquired a horse, each time you travel you’ll have a random encounter: maybe you’ll find a supply cache, meet a salesperson, get into a fight, or discover a new location to investigate. Open rangeĪfter choosing from one of three character classes-the magical Beanslinger, the smooth-talking Snake Oiler, or the rough-and-tumble Cowpuncher-you’ll mosey through tiny towns, gang hideouts, and ramshackle homesteads, picking up quests that add new spots on your map to visit. From mundane tasks like filing paperwork in the proper order just so you can convince the bartender to sell you a glass of whiskey to helping a man fused with a cactus cure their loneliness, the game did a wonderful job of consistently pushing me into actually wanting to complete even totally optional missions. The main storyline is fairly simple to tackle, but the side quests can often bear delightfully twisted brainteasers. I found it damn near impossible to play this game without a stupid grin glued to my face at all times. There are so many puns that it’s almost overwhelming. The closest thing it has to vulgar language is when the bartender of a town named Breadwood insists on calling you a “cakesucker” Sword With Sauceīecause the locals enjoy cussin’ as much as they like their “bread and bread-related products.” Most of the jokes here are a bit too sophisticated for actual children but just dumb enough to tickle my own inner child. What’s even more impressive is that it’s actually somewhat family-friendly too. Seriously, this thing is just insanely funny. What it does offer, however, is a biting sense of humor that more than makes up for any of its shortcomings.
The game doesn’t have much to satiate either of those desires. If you’re looking for challenging combat and state-of-the-art graphics, you can stop reading right now. The artwork consists of crude stick figures, drawn in a typical western setting, with a stubbornly black and white color palette. West of Loathing is a point-and-click adventure that doubles as a turn-based RPG. West of Loathing is a single-player role-playing video game with turn-based combat. West of Loathing keeps some of the same mechanics, like using meat as currency and forcing the player to contend with extremely silly goblins, and it sticks to the same aesthetic approach.
#WEST OF LOATHING LOTS OF SNAKES FULL#
Full stick-figure customization thousands of jokes, gags, and goofs, crunchy turn-based combat (but only if you want it) liberal use of the Oxford comma, over 50 hats, disreputable saloons, Several gulches a drunk horse, West of Loathing is a follow-up to the browser-based indie hit Kingdom of Loathing, a stick-figure fantasy adventure where absurdity and jokes did all the heavy lifting that graphics might in a higher-budget game.
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