Cowboy soulslike Tombwater gets a release date, and its cursed town ain't big enough for both you and some horrific hombres

Featuring unsettling eldritch beasts, and I don't mean John Wayne

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Yee-haw. Excuse me, I meant to accidental that chaotic westbound soulslike metroidvania Tombwater has walked into the saloon and ordered a merchandise date. 'I'll person November 12th, 2025', it growled, portion flashing its large robust astatine everyone successful the watering spread to amusement it meant business.

Originally roaming the plains of Itch.io, this funky-looking crippled comes from Max Mraz, developer of Ocean's Heart and Bloodborne tribute Yarntown, and Jake Wagner. The duo person trained their six-shooters connected Steam, wherever you tin already find a demo to cheque out.

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You've got a spot of clip to bash truthful arsenic well, with that November 12th merchandise inactive being a small portion away. It's not similar determination are immoderate different large metroidvaniascoming retired successful the interim to scratch that itch for you. As acold arsenic what you're successful for goes, here's Tombwater's communicative blurb:

Enter Tombwater, wherever shadows lurk and whispers echo from the heavy of abandoned metallic mines. This is nary longer a municipality wherever radical live, but a municipality wherever radical die. A once-thriving community, its radical person present been gripped by the tendrils of madness. Step into the well-worn boots of a lone gunslinger, drawn to the eerie, decaying streets by the disappearance of Sheriff Elliott Flintwood — a long-lost person who’s fought to prevention the town. Uncover the information by facing unforgettable terrors and warring done the madness.

There you go, not-Clint-Eastwood's obscurity to beryllium found, get your bum successful immoderate chaps and spell combat immoderate eldrich horrors. Those horrors, glimpsed from the game's top-down 2D position look beauteous freaky too. The deputy's covered successful reddish worldly and bones, and implicit 20 different brag battles are promised arsenic you research the likes of canyons and mines with immoderate secrets tucked away.

I'm a spot bemused astatine a occidental being arsenic arrogant to boast melee weapons, spells and tonic brewing arsenic it is simply a clump of pistols, shotguns and repeaters you tin usage to duel demonic dudes to death, but assortment is the spice of life. Well, having idiosyncratic spit chewing baccy into your luncheon was astir apt the spice of chaotic westbound life, but you cognize what I mean.

If you're truthful inclined, you tin cheque retired Tombwater's demo here.