Western Frontiers

WESTERN FRONTIERS

Explore the open country, sun-soaked desert, and boggy swamps of this isometric rendition of 1875 Western America.  An open world free for you to explore: interact with the locals, hunt animals, rob banks, hunt down bounties, start saloon fights.... The choice is yours!


Features:

- Take jobs from town notice boards!

- Journal keeps a record of all jobs

- Fully implemented isometric ragdoll system

- Glass physics for shattering windows

- Injury system and blood dripping/drying physics

- Cinematic fight scenes with environmental takedowns 

- Daily newspapers that change depending on your actions!

- Hunt animals - but be wary of wolves!

- Track down bounties 

- Use the train! (If you can't afford a ticket, ride alongside the train and hop on for a free ride!)
- Fully working reputation system that changes how NPCs treat you (Word of mouth across neighbouring states will increase/lower your rep)

Weapons:

- Western Revolver

- Volcanic Pistol

- Pump-action Shotgun

- Rolling Block rifle

- Bolt-action Rifle 

- Western Repeater

- Bow

Controls:

WASD - Movement 

Q - Draw / holster

RMB - Aim

LMB - Fire

Ctrl - Combat roll (Whilst aiming)

R - Greet / tip hat (Holstered)

R - Reload (Armed)

1/2 - Equip sidearm/longarm 

Shift - Jog / sprint

F - Take cover

Space - Vault 

E - Interact 

J - Journal

NUM PAD:

4 - Left hook

8 - Uppercut / head jab

6 - Right hook

5 - Grapple (Hold to choke)

2 - Evade

0 - Guard (Hold)

Right shift - Environmental takedown (Use while grappling near a window, table, or wall)

All controls can be found and bound to keys in settings

*Screenshots were captured with graphics set to ULTRA* 

Current animal list: (Not including species/coat variants) 

- Buck / deer
- Elk
- Moose
- Wolves
- Domesticated Dogs
- Coyotes
- Foxes
- Crows
- Eagles
- Sparrows
- Horses
- Herons
- Alligators
- Sheep
- Cows

Please enjoy!

Disclaimer: This is my first game. This is an ambitious project I have spent hundreds of hours upon. I am not a traditional games developer, but I do love westerns and isometric games and have spent many, many hours playing them. I initially started development for the sole purpose of my own personal enjoyment, but have now realised that I have sunk a lot of time, effort, and money into this project and I hope to share it with you. This game would not be possible without AI as it was used for coding and sprite development - of which I have had very little experience with - but I have still spent far too much time playtesting and tweaking the game to ensure the highest quality I can possibly produce. I am still not entirely  content with the game and hope to develop it further, but I become more and more impressed by how far we've come every update. The current build is still in early access so expect some glitches, bugs, and missing features, hopefully these will be ironed out it the coming days/weeks. By default, graphics is set to HIGH, but for the best experience I recommend ULTRA if you can run it as it adds real-time shadows to the game. Have fun!