Shadow Warrior studio announces a new supernatural shooter called Evil West

Shadow Warrior developer Flying Wild Hog revealed a new project tonight at The Game Awards called Evil West, a gun-slinging tale of a dark menace that threatens the American frontier, and the supernatural superheroes who hold the line against it.

As a member of a top-secret cabal of vampire hunters, it falls to you to fight back the horrors that are emerging from the shadows, with guns, gadgets, and a "lightning-fueled gauntlet." Evil West will feature a narrative-driven campaign with support for solo and co-op multiplayer, and a range of ugradeable weapons and unlockable perks.

There's not much in the way of detail at this point but it based on what I've seen so far, it strikes me as a sort of a Wild West take on Shadow Warrior: Replace Lo Wang with Jesse Rentier (that's the name of the trailer hero) and turn the dial from samurai to cowboy, and I suspect you'd end up with something very much like this.

That's not a complaint—I like Flying Wild Hog's Shadow Warrior reboot a great deal. But one of the things I enjoy most about it is the faint sense of goofiness that underlies the whole thing, and I really don't pick that up from this Evil West teaser. Hopefully it's not too grim and gritty: Even Clint Eastwood told a joke once in awhile.

Evil West is due out sometime in 2021.

Andy Chalk

Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters. He began writing videogame news in 2007 for The Escapist and somehow managed to avoid getting fired until 2014, when he joined the storied ranks of PC Gamer. He covers all aspects of the industry, from new game announcements and patch notes to legal disputes, Twitch beefs, esports, and Henry Cavill. Lots of Henry Cavill.