- Indie, Action
Based on a true story, Western Press is the most historically accurate frontier dueling game available for PC and Mac. Probably. Up to 16 players (or bots) compete in a tournament of 1v1 sprints to press a random string of ten buttons the fastest.
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Plot-driven, cool, unpretentious and intimate.
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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CGMagazineJordan BiordiJul 20169/10Western Press shoots from the hip, right through the heart.
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GameSpewRichard SeagraveMar 201870/100Western Press makes for a brilliant and inexpensive party game. Its basic nature means you're not going to get much out of it when played on your own, whether online or offline, but with friends it's an absolute riot.
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Digitally DownloadedMay 20163.5/5 starsWestern Press is a silly game, but there should always be a market for silly games, and at a discount price it’s great for a laugh between friends.
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Cubed3OfisilAug 20165/10There's one great and one awful thing about Western Press, and both can be summed up in one word: simplicity. The non-complexity of going mano a mano against another gamer, and just having to press a series of buttons as fast as possible is surely fun, despite not being something special… but the excitement cannot exactly last for long - especially when the basic premise is as simplistic as the bonus stages of far older video games.
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Bit CulturesJosh AbbottSep 201650/100Western Press is fun, but only for a short while. The mechanics are every bit as simple as they sound, and no amount of customization can really change that. Some of the modes and options result in an unbalanced difficulty, which is particularly damning for a game that has so little content from the get go.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One
- Developer
- Bandit-1
- Publisher
- Surprise Attack Games
- Released
- April 21, 2016
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Perspective
- Side view
- Engine
- Unity
- Time to beat
- 30 min main story
IGDB rating 7.0/10 from 2 ratings.
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