Some former Prey and Dishonored developers are making Weird West, a top-down cowboy action-RPG that’s a bit like an immersive sim. This much we knew, and had already puzzled over. Fondly, like. The dev’s pedigree gained my curiosity, but this interview with Prey and Dishonored creative director Raphael Colantonio has my attention.
Weird West will be an “action-resolved version of something like Fallout meets Ultima 7”, says Colantonio, with “a space of possibilities where no two players have the same playthrough exactly”. He doesn’t let slip much more than that – but he does have some interesting things to say about immersive sim-iness, and why he left Arkane.