The Old West has been a staple of American media for decades and the last major game to represent the Western genre came out all the way back in 2018 with .
The massively popular open-world game included all the classic tropes of the Western genre: marshals chasing outlaws, daring train robberies, and shoot-outs in saloons.
Strangely, instead of spawning copycats in its wake, it seems that instead scared off any potential competitors after its release, which may have cleared the path for any sequel to drop without any challengers.
isn’t the only game in recent years to feature the Old West as a setting, but it is the only one to fully commit to the setting without any sort of supernatural or horror twist.
Other titles have introduced cowboy characters and settings, with their adjacent bounties and gunslinging ways, alongside zombies, monsters, and other creepy creatures.