West of Loathing is a slapstick-comedy role-playing adventure game developed by Asymmetric Publications and releasedin in August of 2017 for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Upon release, the game was critically acclaimed getting high scores from most reviewers who praised the game's humour, its music, and its story.
The game is set in the same world as
Kingdom of Loathing—which is a browser-based multiplayer game relesed in 2003—which uses hand-drawn stick figures and backgrounds and is characterised for its references to popular culture, as well as its crude humour.
In
West of Loathing players can choose to talk their way out of trouble as a silver-tongued Snake Oiler, be a wise and subtle Beanslinger, or go all out and fight your way as a Cow Puncher while exploring a vast world set in the wild west of the
Kingdom of Loathing. The game is full of gags, pop culture jokes, and goofs, liberal use of the comma, dozens of gallons of hats, and a drunk horse.
West of Loathing is a single-player slapstick comedy adventure role-playing game set in the wild west of the Kingdom of Loathing universe. Traverse snake-infested gulches, punch skeletons wearing cowboy hats, grapple with demon cows, and investigate a wide variety of disgusting spittoons.
West of Loathing is available for the Nintendo Switch right now.