Evil West tries many things during its 13-hour campaign and fails terribly at most of them. While the writing is absolutely atrocious, the characters are painfully cliche and the visuals often look dated, Evil West manages to deliver some excellent combat before it becomes incredibly repetitive.

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Evil West’s gameplay outside of the combat is generally one-note and sadly, its steampunk wild west world, which I was so hoping would be good,  just didn’t deliver what I was expecting. But underneath all the blood, grime and slimy leeches, the combat shines and thankfully just when the fighting starts to feel repetitive, the game ends.

There’s nothing really remarkable about Evil West and you’ll likely play it and forget all about it but it generally keeps things fun. The game is set in the 1800s. The wild west meets steampunk world has collided with vampires, werewolves and leeches – Oh my! and you need to stop all this massacring before the whole world ends up in ruins. You play as Jesse Rentier, a vampire hunter that gets caught up in this latest mission to save the world.

You see, vampires and monsters aren’t really anything new in the world of Evil West. In fact, the Rentier Institute is an owned entity built on killing these creatures. They have been doing so for decades now but the latest threat, for some reason, is bigger than anything the group has encountered to date.

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