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Weird West is a conceptually compelling dark-fantasy western RPG, but it doesn’t quite live up to its grand ambitions. Wonky action, a limited inventory system, and technical problems hold the game back from greatness.
Game Info
Discover a dark fantasy reimagining of the Wild West where lawmen and gunslingers share the frontier with fantastical creatures. Journey through the origin stories 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 stories 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.
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Total Reviews: 84
RELEASE DATES:
GENRES:
- RPG, Adventure
DEVELOPER(S):
- WolfEye Studios
PUBLISHER(S):
- Devolver Digital
SERIES/FRANCHISE:
- n/a
GAME MODES:
- Single player
GAME ENGINE:
- Unreal Engine 4
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RATING & REVIEWS
Ratings & Reviews
84
Critic Reviews
76
Average Critic Score
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CRITIC REVIEWS
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High Score
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Median Score
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Low Score
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Dan Stapleton (IGN)
March 31, 2022
8/10
Weird West’s five dark-fantasy adventures contain a wagonload of bizarre encounters, twists, and reveals, and its stealth and chaotic combat are challenging but come with the built-in safety nets of unlimited slow-motion and an old-school quickload system.
Tom Sykes (PC Gamer)
March 31, 2022
79/100
Look past the murky aesthetic and clunky combat: this is an exciting fusion of immersive sim and CRPG.
Nick Gillett (Metro GameCentral)
March 31, 2022
6/10
Despite some of the same minds behind Dishonored being involved, this top-down immersive doesn’t live up to its soaring ambitions and often struggles to entertain.
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Score Ranges
Read the Reviews (84 total)
| Outlet | Author | Score | Date | Quote | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33bits | Rubén Manzanares | 70 / 100 | 04-04-2022 | The truth is that Weird West is a title where the bad parts are highlighted, but even so, the title has a great story and a sensational artistic section that makes it a more than interesting option within the genre. | Read review |
| 3DNews | Михаил Пономарев | 8 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West got a full load of great gameplay and narrative features. And a couple of misfires won’t spoil those. | Read review |
| ACG | Jeremy Penter | Recommended | 03-30-2022 | Video Review | Read review |
| AusGamers | Steve Farrelly | 9 / 10 | 04-01-2022 | It’s a place where you can help a fellow in need, or bury him deep beneath snakes — the choice is yours. | Read review |
| BaziCenter | Milad Taher Nejad | 8 / 10 | 04-25-2022 | A western immersive sim with isometric camera mixed with supernatural elements is something that can only be experienced in video games format; and despite all the technical shortcomings caused by limited resources, Weird West is one of those very unique games that emerge once every 10 years. | Read review |
| But Why Tho? | Mick Abrahamson | 7.5 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West is like a love-hate relationship. It can be extremely frustrating one minute, and you want nothing to do with it. Then, the next minute, you want nothing more than to keep playing…However, all of it comes together to create an impressive world that WolfEye Studio should be proud of. | Read review |
| Chalgyr’s Game Room | Pierre-Yves Lanthier | 8 / 10 | 04-08-2022 | Weird West was fun. Combining an RPG like third person isometric style but without having to grind for experience points with a real time twin-stick shooter throughout five different yet attached stories and there will be plenty of tales to tell. With plenty of different ways to go about each protagonist’s journey, Weird West has the capacity to not only hold your interest for a while, but make you come back for more. | Read review |
| Checkpoint Gaming | Unknown | 7.5 / 10 | 04-02-2022 | Overall, Weird West dishes up an alluring world that you can explore to your heart’s content. Its story structure and procedurally generated travel encounters will keep players on their toes and ensure that no two playthroughs are the same. Even though there are a few glitches and the game’s camera can feel a little clunky at times, the visual style and depth of Weird West’s world more than make up for it. If you have a soft spot for comic books, interesting stories, and dynamic characters, Weird West will be a great addition to your library. | Read review |
| COGconnected | James Paley | 75 / 100 | 03-31-2022 | The beautiful thing about Weird West is also what makes it critically impenetrable. At least for me, my enjoyment of the game is tied to my particular playstyle. If you’re more ruthless with NPCs, if you’re more stealth-focused, or if you’re more patient, this is a very different game. So my frustration with the stealth is a sign to sneak around less. If I’m unhappy with the story, I can always change how it ends. Conversely, the movement and aiming controls are a tangible way of making your platforming choice. If you’re looking for a western RPG with this sort of blissful, overwhelming freedom, you’ve come to the right place. For better or for worse, Weird West has that freedom. | Read review |
| cublikefoot | Chase Ferrin | Recommended | 03-31-2022 | Weird West’s best features – its combat and exploration – are not without fault, but I also cannot deny that they kept me engaged for hours on end. Maybe not a day-one buy, but still worth a look. | Read review |
| Cultured Vultures | Ryan Stevens | 6 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | While its narrative aspirations and desire for immersive role playing seem to aim at the Hollywood tradition of the Western, Weird West ends up feeling more like a disposable dime novel. | Read review |
| Destructoid | Eric Van Allen | 8 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Impressive efforts with a few noticeable problems holding them back. Won’t astound everyone, but is worth your time and cash. | Read review |
| Digital Trends | Otto Kratky | 3.5 / 5 stars | 03-31-2022 | While it has its quirks, Weird West is a bit of storytelling spectacle that seems to have been hand-crafted for diehard RPG fans. | Read review |
| Easy Allies | Brad Ellis | 3.5 / 5 stars | 04-20-2022 | Weird West is a solid game that presents a bizarre and haunting sandbox to play in. | Read review |
| Eurogamer | Edwin Evans-Thirlwell | Not Recommended | 03-31-2022 | A bold, atmospheric yet dissatisfying ensemble RPG shooter, full of untapped promise. | Read review |
| Everyeye.it | Alessandro Bruni | 6.5 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Despite the considerable ambitions of the project by Raphael Colantonio and his WolfEye Studios, Weird West fails to best express the potential of a creative vision as multifaceted as it is unsustainable, at least for the current production structure of the team. | Read review |
| Explosion Network | Wil James | 8 / 10 | 04-01-2022 | The opportunities within Weird West do feel endless at times due to the emergent gameplay, story beats and the way you are endlessly rewarded for exploration. Capped off by some excellent presentation, atmosphere and fascinating story, Weird West’s detracting factors are only minor marks on an overall great experience. | Read review |
| FingerGuns | Miles Thompson | 6 / 10 | 04-08-2022 | Weird West sadly just isn’t as unique, strange or compelling as its setting and ideas suggest it should be. A decent twin-stick shooter with solid but repetitive combat, a limited sandbox and inconsequential decision making undermine the potential for an awesome gun slinging adventure. Sometimes, declaring yourself weird just ain’t enough, you’ve got to have the stones to commit to the best duels of the wild west. | Read review |
| Game Informer | Alex Van Aken | 8.5 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Regardless, developer Wolfeye Studios has crafted one hell of a debut release. Weird West subverts expectations, twisting well-trodden cowboy tropes into dark fantasy vignettes brought to life by immersive sandbox elements. | Read review |
| Game Rant | Adrian Morales | 4 / 5 stars | 03-31-2022 | Weird West is a brilliant execution of immersive sim principles in an isometric environment. | Read review |
| Gameblog | Joniwan | 8 / 10 | 04-01-2022 | Weird West is a video game that offers a rich narrative with a lively (but dark) world. The character rotation system is a great way to vary the fun and gameplay mechanics. The sandbox vision of the fights is excellent. | Read review |
| Gamefa | مهدی رضایی | 9 / 10 | 04-06-2022 | If you’re interested in Western titles and role-playing games or Immersive Sim, don’t miss out on Weird West. | Read review |
| GameGrin | Mike Crewe | 8.5 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West blends a lawless world of gunslingers with the supernatural to great effect, and had me gripped the entire time. This is one adventure you need to experience. | Read review |
| GameMAG | Unknown | 7 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | When everything works, Weird West feels great to play. Sadly, sometimes you can see how budget and time constraints hindered the game as a whole. Still we believe Raphael Colantonio can make necessary updates and fixes to their project, because it sure has a lot of potential. | Read review |
| Gamer Escape | Timothy Hyldahl | 7 / 10 | 04-06-2022 | It’s buggy, the balance is off, and a good 80% of the locations only really serve as random sidequest destinations. But the storytelling drew me in, the stealth worked rather well, and on the occasions when I felt like I had resources to burn it was just so dang satisfying to slow motion dive out from behind a corner while blasting a barrage of shotgun shells. | Read review |
| Gamersky | Unknown | 8 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | As an immersive simulation game, wild west gives players a lot of meaningful and fun options. | Read review |
| GameSkinny | Jason D’Aprile | 7 / 10 | 03-30-2022 | Weird West doesn’t quite gel on every level, but it still makes for a fascinating and deep action RPG sure to entertain fans of the late-90s CRPGs. | Read review |
| GameSpace | LaSt04Ka | 8 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West is an interesting isometric RPG that features unique setting, distinctive systems and a group of atypical heroes, each with their unique story, perspective and decisions. | Read review |
| GameSpew | Richard Seagrave | 7 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | For those what want to immerse themselves in a strange, alternative take on the Wild West and unravel a mysterious story, Weird West should do the trick. This is an engaging action RPG that while narrative-driven, still gives players a large amount of choice. And though there are some issues, they’re worth bearing with to see each of the game’s protagonists journeys through to their end. As the first game from WolfEye Studios, this is a very commendable effort indeed. | Read review |
| GameSpot | Justin Clark | 6 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West slings a few effective yarns, but fumbles when it comes to dealing in lead. | Read review |
| GamesRadar+ | Rachel Weber | 4 / 5 stars | 03-31-2022 | Weird West has the ambition of a much larger game, and has made smart choices to be able to meet it. | Read review |
| Gaming Nexus | Eric Hauter | 8.8 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West is a fun not-quite-RPG that feels like the beginning of a great new franchise. Perfectly enjoyable to play, this first iteration lays a lot of groundwork towards what will likely become an ongoing series. Darkly funny and surprising, each character’s story arc is unique and rewarding. While a system of branching choices impacting the game’s story feels like a natural evolution from what is here, what is presented is very enjoyable. Weird West creates a universe I don’t want to leave. When it was over, I just wanted more | Read review |
| GamingBolt | Shubhankar Parijat | 9 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Densely packed with ingenious systems, Weird West is a game of endless possibilities that encourages player choice and agency in a way very few other games do, and reacts to your actions across every level of interactivity. Fans of immersive sims and action RPGs won’t want to miss this. | Read review |
| GamingTrend | Kristian Longden | 75 / 100 | 04-11-2022 | When it comes to the world, the narrative, and the characters that inhabit the Weird West, there’s a lot to love. If you’re looking for a game that’s well written and where your choices feel important and consequential, then it’s likely you’ll be able to forgive some of the lacklustre RPG elements that unfortunately weigh this one down. | Read review |
| Generación Xbox | Santiago Carrillo | 8.5 / 10 | 04-28-2022 | We are facing a title as rare as fun, which combines elements of multiple genres to create something new that won’t leave anyone indifferent. Expectations were high and he has far exceeded them. | Read review |
| God is a Geek | Mick Fraser | 7.5 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Despite some flaws that are too big to ignore, Weird West is an ambitious, intriguing, sometimes unique action-RPG set in a nightmarish world. | Read review |
| Hardcore Gamer | Kyle LeClair | 3.5 / 5 stars | 04-12-2022 | Weird West offers up a world of intrigue with a terrific blend of classic Western fiction and supernatural elements, with a lot of enjoyable story bits and and a world that can change on a whim, but it’s one whose awkward combat and bugs make for a bit of an uphill battle when it comes to truly enjoying this world. WolfEye should definitely be commended for their ambition and unique ideas, and the end result is still an enjoyable game, just one that could have used some extra spit and polish. | Read review |
| Hey Poor Player | Jonathan Trussler | 4 / 5 stars | 03-31-2022 | Weird West sometimes gets its wagon wheels stuck on the sand with its exciting but underdeveloped ideas. Nonetheless, it’s still well worth a fair few silver dollars for being an ambitiously open-ended Action-RPG with a truly unique story and ambiance. So saddle up, partner. We’ve got some outlaws and zombies to hunt! | Read review |
| IGN | Dan Stapleton | 8 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West’s five dark-fantasy adventures contain a wagonload of bizarre encounters, twists, and reveals, and its stealth and chaotic combat are challenging but come with the built-in safety nets of unlimited slow-motion and an old-school quickload system. | Read review |
| IGN Italy | Stefano Castagnola | 8.6 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West isn’t perfect but it’s definitely a worthy successor to games like Dishonored and Prey and a great debut title from new team Wolfeye Studios. | Read review |
| IGN Spain | David Oña | 7 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West presents itself as a videogame divided in two, composed of a duality that places it between the experimental and the tried and tested formula, presenting a really appealing proposal in everything that has to do with role-playing and player-world interaction, and attending to conventionalisms in terms of action. I have a bit too much of the latter, but I can’t help but applaud its merits. Play it on PC, though. | Read review |
| Impulsegamer | Ben Veress | 2.5 / 5 stars | 04-20-2022 | If the bugs are patched, Weird West has the potential to be a truly excellent game, as there is a lot of fun to be had in the West, you just sometimes have to make it yourself. | Read review |
| Jump Dash Roll | Derek Johnson | 6 / 10 | 04-19-2022 | While Weird West’s story is generally engaging and its characters are great, its core gameplay teeters on terrible so often that it’s hard to recommend it when Red Dead Redemption 2 is still on sale. | Read review |
| JVL | Nyam Hazz | 7.5 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West is an action-RPG game that fulfills very well the contract it had set itself to offer a rich and complete immersive simulation. | Read review |
| KeenGamer | Victor Tan | 8 / 10 | 04-06-2022 | Weird West’s combination of the Wild West mythos with dark fantasy elements brings together an enjoyable RPG experience. Being able to forge your own path through the world with your actions and combat is a fun and enjoyable experience. While there are some noticeable flaws, Weird West does a great job of giving you the tools you make to create your own legend in the West. | Read review |
| Metro GameCentral | Nick Gillett | 6 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Despite some of the same minds behind Dishonored being involved, this top-down immersive doesn’t live up to its soaring ambitions and often struggles to entertain. | Read review |
| MonsterVine | Diego Escala | 3.5 / 5 stars | 03-31-2022 | There’s a lot of fun to be had in the Weird West, but it sometimes feels more like a testing ground for a more fleshed-out sequel. | Read review |
| New Game Network | Ben Thomas | 80 / 100 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West is a brilliant Action-RPG sandbox with an alluring supernatural undertone. The story finds a regular beat as it jumps through five intriguing characters. Both stealth and combat work decently from the isometric perspective, with good interactions, and only some camera issues and AI navigation quirks prevent it from striking a deep vein of gold. | Read review |
| Niche Gamer | Michael Valverde | 8 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Once I made my final choices and watched the end cutscene after about 20 hours of play, I immediately wanted to start a new playthrough and see what happens when I make the opposite choices. And to me, that seems like the sign of a good game; if you disagree, I’ll put you under snakes. | Read review |
| NoobFeed | Azfar Rayan | 82 / 100 | 04-09-2022 | Weird West is one of the rare role-playing games where players genuinely change the environment with their actions and choices. The considerable potential and ambitions of the game collide with the scope and funding, which reflected inadequacy, yet WolfEye Studios delivered a game that offers a unique experience. | Read review |
| Paste Magazine | Kevin Fox Jr. | 7.8 / 10 | 04-27-2022 | I feel like I may have underrated Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands at the time of review-I keep coming back to play in its vibrant and creative world. While this game doesn’t take place on a board, each miniature map has edges like parchment that you walk through to get to the map screen where you select your next destination. I really hope Weird West succeeds because I’d like to play more games like it. Whether or not it gets any further fine-tuning, Weird West is a successful execution of a subtly ambitious project, and a very good first outing for WolfEye. | Read review |
| PC Gamer | Tom Sykes | 79 / 100 | 03-31-2022 | Look past the murky aesthetic and clunky combat: this is an exciting fusion of immersive sim and CRPG. | Read review |
| PC Invasion | Jason Rodriguez | 7 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West does have some interesting and novel ideas. Sadly, bugs, AI issues, and questionable mechanics prove to be problematic. | Read review |
| PCGamesN | Jarrett Green | 7 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Superbly written characters, the dark allure of its world, and an engrossing main story make up for Weird West’s wonky action. | Read review |
| PlayStation LifeStyle | Louis Edwards | 6 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West is a fun, but awkward game. The aiming and gun fighting mechanics often lead to frustration and make it almost unplayable at times. The story is interesting and different and the characters are fun to get to know, but the weapons aren’t very diverse and the armor and clothes are a minimal addition. It’s one of those games, that if you can master the mechanics of it and like this type of camera angle, you’ll probably enjoy it, but still find it lacking in overall depth. Personally, I love Diablo-type games and found Weird West to be enjoyable, but often tedious. Luckily, there’s a quick save and quick load feature for those untimely deaths and missteps. Trust me — those will happen often. | Read review |
| PlayStation Universe | Neil Bolt | 9.5 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | With Weird West, WolfEye has created an ambitious immersive sim hybrid that sucks you ever-deeper into its gritty, bizarre world of the cults n’ cowboys like a particularly impatient quicksand. It occasionally struggles to translate its combat to a controller as smoothly as it could, but the rest of this package is so damn intoxicating that it matters little in the long run. A masterful game with a fascinating set of stories to tell. | Read review |
| Polygon | Ewan Wilson | Not Recommended | 03-31-2022 | With Weird West, these magic moments appear far too infrequently. Sheer ambition means eventually something special is bound to be spat out by the game’s extensive simulations — a mishap with an oil lamp, for example — although it’ll be a rough and unwieldy thing, all the more crude when compared with the extensive elegance of a Dishonored. Instead of doing what many, myself included, had hoped — converting the spirit of Arkane and the immersive sim into an inventive top-down form — Weird West has stumbled into a more mundane existence as a pared-down computer RPG that’s nowhere near weird enough. | Read review |
| PSX Brasil | Bruno Henrique Vinhadel | 80 / 100 | 03-31-2022 | Lacking some refinement in general and improvements in controls, Weird West overcomes these minor problems with good stories in different characters, great immersive sim system and an addictive combat. | Read review |
| Push Square | Sam Brooke | 7 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West sets its sights high by promising player freedom and a responsive world to butterfly effect the hell out of, and it very nearly delivers on all of it. At its best, WolfEye Studios’ first outing offers delightfully chaotic combat and an interesting supernatural setting that leaves no actions without consequence. But while in many respects Weird West achieves some of its grander ambitions, it fails to nail some of the basics. Immersive sim fans will be in their element here, but Raphael Colantonio’s latest won’t have as wide an appeal as his previous successes with Arkane. | Read review |
| Rectify Gaming | Dave Rodriguez | 8.6 / 10 | 04-04-2022 | Weird West feels like the next step in the immersive sim genre. | Read review |
| Rock, Paper, Shotgun | Jeremy Peel | Recommended | 03-31-2022 | Arkane founder’s first indie outing is a chaotic soup of colliding systems, and that soup tastes absolutely delicious. | Read review |
| Saving Content | Scott Ellison II | 4 / 5 stars | 03-31-2022 | Weird West is a fantastic immersive sim that works doubles as an isometric action RPG in concert. Sadly the stealth is clumsy, the throwables clunky, but this is one of the best games of its kind. Over the twenty or so hours, you’ll encounter quirky characters, feral supernatural beasts, and unravel and intertwining mystery across five different playable characters that’s rarely been seen to culminate in a climactic end. Weird West feels like you’re playing something new and fresh, and it absolutely delivers as being one of 2022’s greats. | Read review |
| Screen Rant | Rob Gordon | 4 / 5 stars | 03-31-2022 | Weird West is a refreshing, lean and mean immersive sim. Its supernatural Wild West is a delight to explore, and is at its very best when it gets as strange as it possibly can, while the minute-to-minute combat is an awful lot of fun. Some of its bugs may get in the way, and those expecting deep interpersonal relationships with posse members will find it wanting, but as a mechanic-driven immersive experience it is hard to put down. | Read review |
| SECTOR.sk | Branislav Kohút | 8 / 10 | 04-19-2022 | The strange Wild West RPG brings rough gunslingers, a series of individual stories, but also werewolves, pig heads and silly fellow-combatants. | Read review |
| Shacknews | TJ Denzer | 8 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West very much lives up to its name. In each character’s journey, a wide tapestry of dark and spooky adventures play out across the Wild West. Monsters of both the human and occult variety are bound by the decisions you make, and those choices carry on to make each adventure in this take on the dusty unsettled frontier more interesting. I wish that the game didn’t push me to micromanage my inventory so much and that some critical quirks didn’t hamper the experience, but put those issues aside and it’s a deeply interesting narrative with more than its fair share of riveting shootouts and adventure. | Read review |
| Sirus Gaming | Rhett Roxl | 7 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | As a game that delves into the supernatural, the story of Weird West is surprisingly interwoven with humanity. It tells a story in such a way that it makes you think otherwise of the things you used to think were awesome. If a game’s narrative makes you ponder for a solid moment, that’s a game worth experiencing in my book. | Read review |
| Skill Up | Ralph Panebianco | Not Recommended | 03-31-2022 | Video Review | Read review |
| Slant Magazine | Steven Scaife | 2 / 5 stars | 03-31-2022 | Playing Weird West, it’s hard to shake how much more gracefully other games of this type avoid similar pitfalls, with the abbreviated scavenging of Void Bastards and the easy-to-read interface of Desperados III, another western with a top-down perspective, immediately coming to mind. The latter game also supports far more complex maneuvers despite lacking the sort of pointless granularity that has the player comb through indistinguishable shelves for a handful of ammunition. By contrast, Weird West is a slog dying for an extensive streamline. | Read review |
| Softpedia | Cosmin Vasile | 8.5 / 10 | 04-01-2022 | Weird West has a great set of gameplay mechanics that don’t always deliver the best experience. The five-character stories have great moments, although the side-quests are often more engaging. You can take down an important enemy in three ways or more, but the chaotic aftermath might be impossible to handle. Using all the money obtained from a job to replace bullets and medicine is not a way to make progress. | Read review |
| SpazioGames | Gianluca Arena | 8 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West is smaller in comparison to Colantonio’s previous games like Prey and Dishonored 2, but it’s nonetheless ambitious and leaves a lot of choice in the hands of the player. A little gem that needs just a little bit of extra polish to shine even brighter | Read review |
| TechRaptor | Tyler Chancey | 8.5 / 10 | 04-02-2022 | An original, imaginative dark western fantasy world with impressive immersive sim elements let down by some sloppy chaotic combat and interchangeable supporting cast. | Read review |
| The Escapist | Elise Avery | Recommended | 03-31-2022 | Video Review | Read review |
| The Games Machine | Gabriele Barducci | 7 / 10 | 04-05-2022 | Weird West has a fun and engaging sandbox structure and is narratively solid, but it is also unfortunately marred by technical and gameplay issues. | Read review |
| The Outerhaven Productions | Keith Mitchell | 4.5 / 5 stars | 03-31-2022 | Weird West is a fantastic sandbox game that allows gamers to do what they want, complete with an interesting story and fun gameplay mechanics. Now, if only the AI-controller characters and the inventory system were addressed, it would make things better for the players. | Read review |
| TheSixthAxis | Alexis Ong | 5 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | A dark-fantasy western RPG with a compelling world and an ambitious narrative, Weird West is undermined by awkward combat and micromanagement. Weird West’s rotating multi-character perspective will be an acquired taste, but makes sense as a method of world-building. It’s got room to grow, but right now, it’s challenging to build momentum in the early game and to persevere through the mid-game. | Read review |
| TrueAchievements | Tom West | 4.5 / 5 stars | 03-31-2022 | With a fantastic roster of stories to play through and characters to interact with, Weird West is sure to please any fan of the Old West. Its mix of fantasy and spaghetti western tropes blends beautifully to create a memorable experience that twists and turns around the believable and magical. While there are a few niggles here and there, the overall experience feels polished throughout and WolfEye’s attention to detail is noticeable in all aspects. | Read review |
| Twinfinite | Jake Su | 3 / 5 stars | 03-31-2022 | This is one game that is certainly worth checking out, if only for the setting and story premise, and if you could find some way to look beyond the less than ideal conditions of the gameplay segments, then perhaps you already possess the necessary steel and nerve to make it in the Weird West. | Read review |
| VideoGamer | Josh Wise | 8 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | You can sense, in Weird West, a developer both returning to his obsessions and toiling on a fresh frontier. | Read review |
| Washington Post | Jon Bailes | Not Recommended | 03-31-2022 | There’s no escaping, however, that “Weird West” is crowded by its own ambition. No doubt, some glitches will be fixed — like mission objectives failing to update correctly — and some control issues are surely more applicable to the PlayStation 4 version rather than the PC. But other problems are more fundamental. It says something that by the end of the game, I’d killed 599 people, and as much as (almost) all of them had it coming, I had no such intention when I set out. The systems felt too brittle to warrant a more considered approach. In this Western, it doesn’t pay to be a master of the quick draw so much as the quick save, stopping to back up every inch of progress, in case your next move pulls the chair from under you. | Read review |
| WayTooManyGames | Jordan Hawes | 8 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Weird West is a fantastic ARPG Immersive Sim that really gets you invested within its world. The veteran skill behind this game surely shines throughout this title offering something fun and fresh. I easily spent over fifty hours in Weird West and that’s even having to rush the last couple chapters. I enjoyed losing myself in this world and its characters experimenting with the gameplay tools and options provided. | Read review |
| Wccftech | Francesco De Meo | 8 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | With its gripping story, wacky characters, solid action role-playing game mechanics, and masterfully crafted immersive simulation features, Weird West is one of the very few role-playing games on the market where players truly shape the world with their choices and actions. Some balancing and technical issues damage the experience, but if you’re looking for a truly immersive RPG to play, you won’t find anything better than Weird West. | Read review |
| WellPlayed | Nathan Hennessy | 7.5 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Playing in this Western sandbox is a joy when it is rewarding your exploration and moral choices with strange outcomes and interesting characters. A lack of late-game variety brings its flaws to the fore. | Read review |
| Windows Central | Zachary Boddy | 3.5 / 5 stars | 03-31-2022 | Weird West’s astounding world-building and intriguing singleplayer campaign are worth the cost of entry on their own, but the game’s lackluster technical performance and polish are huge negatives that prevent it from achieving greatness. | Read review |
| ZTGD | Terrence Johnson | 8.5 / 10 | 03-31-2022 | Minor issues aside, I loved my time with Weird West on PS5 so much so that I plan to double dip and play it again on Xbox since it’s on Game Pass when it releases. The story, characters and even the very world that Wolfeye Studios have created for their freshman outing is so very unique and dare I say ‘weird’ that you can’t help but become wrapped up in them. I haven’t enjoyed a mash up of supernatural and westerns since Darkwatch and if you played that game, you know that’s high praise. | Read review |
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