Posted on: December 16, 2023

idbeholdME

Games: 736 Reviews: 68

Excellent fast paced 3rd person combat.

First off, the core of the gameplay, which is the combat, is absolutely excellent. Extremely fast, brutal and unforgiving on the hardest difficulty. Dodges, blocks, dashes, guns, punches, the game has it all. The sheer amount of weapons and tools available to you to win over the vampire hordes in the game's 16 levels is staggering. You start off with a basic arsenal but constantly keep finding new toys as you play through the campaign and end up packing so much firepower it's actually nuts. Revolver, Rifle, Bombs, Gatling, Flamethrower, superpowered vampire slaying gauntlet and more. You name it, the game has it. Along with perk points, weapon upgrades, the whole package. If you are just looking for mindless 3rd person chaos, look no further. But once you leave the combat, that is where the weaker sides of the game come in. First, the levels are extremely linear and scripted. This helps keep the game flow, but the level design overall is quite simplistic. Basically just there to sprinkle collectibles into the occasional "secret" areas and to convey you to the next fight. I use the word "secret" loosely, because secrets in this game mostly consist of guessing the "wrong" path. If you follow the main path, chances are you will not be able to backtrack to explore the branches you missed. The levels are full of "point of no return" traversal actions so you better get everything on the first go. Missing anything means having to replay the entire level if you want the get the collectibles/money you missed. You can't just choose the checkpoint from which you want to start. This flows into another gripe, which is the saving. The game has just one save slot and saves pretty much constantly. So loading an earlier save is also not an option. There was also one annoying bug where the character got stuck after opening a chest, numerous times, forcing a reload. But as said, the core of the game is excellent. An easy 8.5/10 and can definitely recommend. Wouldn't mind a sequel.

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Posted on: June 22, 2025

DuFinMey

Verified owner

Games: 29 Reviews: 11

Good, but also overdone at times

Evil West seems like a mix of God of War and Doom. Like God of War there is a cohesive story line you play through, chests and bags of gold give you the resources to upgrade and unlock some perks, enemies drop heals on defeat or weak point hits, and while weapons need to to recharge, there is no to craft or pick up ammo. Like Doom there are lore pages to pickup, a mix of different guns you need to swap between to be effective, bloody finishers, and some gory environments. The writing was fun, and the graphics looked good. While the mix of God of War and Doom mechanics can work well, it can also be a bit overdone. Swarms can inhibit the weak point targeting, there seems to be an over use of enemies that can heal tanks with impunity (like Ghaul), and enemies are a bit spongy with even minions requiring multiple hits or combos to kill, even on story mode difficulty. While the graphics look good, they are also very demanding at the upper settings. Even on a modern 20 GB 7900 XT the epic graphics preset can push the card over 100 C at times. Also most will likely want to load the game from a SSD- a business grade Segate Exos HDD and 128 GB RAM worked, but it could still take some time to load. The game ran fine on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS through Heroic using WINE GE Latest. No crashes or freezing, generally smooth.

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Posted on: September 30, 2025

Sergorov

Verified owner

Games: 197 Reviews: 8

Evil never sleeps. But it bleeds!

That's when they had me. This game is a great example of how nice a game can look and play when you skip the effort of making a vast open world with tedious and boring side quests and focus on gameplay instead. Yes, the levels are linear, yes there's usually only one way to solve the puzzles, yes, you will run into fairly obvious arenas with waves of enemies. If any of those qualify as bad on your list this is probably not for you. If you love the idea of a steampunk cowboy blasting his way through beautifully gritty and detailed levels and hordes of enemies with various gadgets and the godfather of all brass-knuckles: go for it! Runs quite well with medium to high settings on the ROG Ally Z1 Extreme.

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Posted on: November 2, 2025

Abedsbrother

Verified owner

Games: 1021 Reviews: 27

poorly balanced

Terrible control scheme, delayed inputs, overwhelming spawns = constant death and boredom.

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Posted on: October 9, 2024

Willy.06

Verified owner

Games: 33 Reviews: 2

Fun Game

Only thing that wasn't all that great was the main antagonist; she was very annoying, and not in a good way. Combat is super fun and visceral, although their are times when either the geomatry or enemies box you in and prevent you from moveing or dodging. Normal mode is actually decently challenging, which surprised me, cause usually these types of game are really easy on standard difficulty. One thing that is definitly not a con but I would love to see in the game is a style meter; you can string together some wicked combos and It'd be cool if you got rewarded for that. overall I'd say worth the standard price if your into action games, but if It's on sale It's a must have for anybody imo.

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