West of Loathing is not as simple as its art style might lead you to believe. Its black and white color palette, stick-figure characters, and crude hand-drawn art might appear to be devoid of personality. But in practice, its visual simplicity acts as a [...]
Welcome to the Old West, where snakes are used as whips, cattle are demonically evil, and alongside stick-figure cowboys there are goblins, necromancers, and ghosts. A lot of ghosts, actually. There are ghost horses—I ride one myself—and ghost cowboys, [...]
The legends of the American West are already absurd — men and women with quick hands and lots of luck strolling through places with names like “Hell’s Half-Acre.” Suppose you take those puffed-up romantic stories, the big Technicolor dreamscape of the [...]
