Westerado is a game where the mechanics are decent, but nothing interesting is done with it. Your family is murdered and its your job to search for the murderer, with only a vague description of the suspect. In order to get more clues and rumors, you need to do people favors, which either involve accompanying a carriage to protect it from bandits, going to an area and killing every person there, or wandering the small map looking for someone specific. Rinse and repeat. One quest involves searching for your sister, and each time you find her in the map, she goes somewhere else, and you have to find her again. Not exactly riveting. Another quest involves searching for a lost pickaxe. Imagine the most boring run-of-the-mill RPG quest designed to help the player increase his stats, only every quest is like that. The setting is nice enough, but every once in a while something anachronistic happens to take you out of it. The map is decent, but so small, you'll see everything there is to see plus some secret areas after completing only a handful of quests. The only distraction from the boring main story is the bounties you can take, which are basically a game of Where's Waldo. All characters look alike, so in order to find a wanted person you need to wander the map and compare people to their wanted poster - if their hat is the right size, if colors of their clothing match the poster, etc. Once you find them, you draw a gun and shoot them, since they just stand around doing nothing. You get money for some quests and for the bounties, but there's money lying around all over the map. If you want, you can play poker, but it isn't very fun - just a grind for some extra money. There are the gunfights, but they're easy, with the only difficulty being that bullets pass through solid objects, so you can get hit by someone you don't see, while reloading your pistol sat behind a house. Westerado feels like a game built around achievements, but the GOG version doesn't have any.
