Recordkeeping: West of Loathing COMPLETE

[xyzzysqrl]

West of Loathing is a stick-figure explore-em-up RPG from the people who bring you Kingdom of Loathing, which means it's packed full of comedy and items and meatcrafting.

It's weird, but this is the first PC game in a long time that I think actually tries to be funny and pulls it off. Not in a Lucasarts kind of way, but directly letting you the player help out with the jokes and all. Letting you decide if you want to lean into the punchlines or deliberately blow a joke on purpose, etc.

Sometimes you're the straightman and sometimes you're the funnyman but you always get a shot at being both.

Character-building was a bit tricky for me but I got there with buffs and such eventually.

Good game. Really good. I did not finish most of it. I hit the ending and won, but there's stuff remaining.

Comments

[dang_bunni]

West of Loathing is fantastic. I've heard good things about the DLC (which is NOT set in the Desolate Lonesome Coast), but it's not out on the Switch yet.

[swordianmaster]

The DLC is a small DLC-sized area and quest that takes about an hour or two to go through, so about the length of the Breadwood shenanigans. It's mostly notable for scaling to your level both in power and in rewards, so it's both "always relevant when you decide to tackle it" and also a fantastic springboard for new runs.

[dang_bunni]

I very much want to get it, just need it to come out on the Switch where I have the main game.

[renegadefolkhero]

Thanks for this, it's been on my list forever but I guess it was the stick figures or something that kept getting it bumped.