History VideoGame / BloodWest

* ArtifactOfDoom: Your mission in the first chapter is to find Artifacts of Doom. As an undead, your sight sprouts tendrils and you start hearing whispers whenever you get close to one of these. There are also Artifacts that are Cursed; they can't be removed unless you die or drink a curse-removing potion.

* InformedSpecies: The giant "leech" enemies look suspiciously reptilian and nothing like leeches, and are more like zombified baby crocodiles. They suck your blood if they manage to attach themselves on you, albeit with tentacles instead. The codex notes called them Depth Dwellers and suggest they're part alligator, part leech, and possibly even part human.
* InvisibleMonster: Yes, there is one species in this game.

* RegeneratingHealth: The Vendigo Heart artifact gives you relatively slow regenerating health (1 hp every 8 seconds) at the cost of reducing your max health by 10%. It's too slow to be useful in combat, but if you're patient it can save you quite a lot of money on health potions and let you regenerate your health for free without respawning enemies by resting. Later chapters of the game let you get improved hearts from the tougher variants of Wendigos (i.e. Death Stalkers).

* {{Wendigo}}: One of the BossInMooksClothing-type enemies you can encounter, depicted as a beast with shaggy white fur and gigantic talons. It's even named Wendigo in-game.

* {{BFG}}: The buffalo rifle (a Sharps rifle) deals the most single-shot damage in the game, doing slightly more damage than a high-end shotgun, essentially being the game's equivalent of a sniper rifle. You can turn this already potent weapon into a full BFG by loading it with nitro rounds; these are not Nitro Express (elephant gun) rounds, these are rounds ''loaded with nitroglycerin'' that turn your sniper rifle into a Wild West rocket launcher. Taken even further with the Call of the Abyss, a ''revolver'' multi-shot buffalo rifle you can purchase from the Undead Cowboy in chapter 3 for a whooping $18,000 (which you'd have to essentially 100% chapter 1 and 2 to be able to afford). Loaded with nitro rounds this thing will take off almost 1/3rd of the [[FinalBoss Final Boss's]] life bar in one headshot.

** The Animated Dead can at least catch you by surprise in melee, as their claws have deceptively long range and they actually run faster than you do. The undead Miner is even weaker, with half as much health and a much easier to avoid attack.

** EliteMook: The Birdman Outlaw uses a standard revolver and can ''fan'' it.

* {{BFG}}: The buffalo rifle (a Sharps rifle) deals the most single-shot damage in the game, doing slightly more damage than a high-end shotgun, essentially being the game's equivalent of a sniper rifle. You can turn this already potent weapon into a full BFG by loading it with nitro rounds; these are not Nitro Express (elephant gun) rounds, these are rounds ''loaded with nitroglycerin'' that turn your sniper rifle into a Wild West rocket launcher.

* ArtifactOfDoom: Your usual mission is to find Artifacts of Doom. As an undead, your sight sprouts tendrils and you start hearing whispers whenever you get close to one of these. There are also Artifacts that are Cursed; they can't be removed unless you die or drink a curse-removing potion.

* SilverBullets: Available for the pistol[=/=]rifle or the shotgun. They deal triple damage against ghostly enemies. Gold bullets are also available which deal double damage against everything.

** The Animated Dead can at least catch you by surprise in melee, as their claws have deceptively long range. The undead Miner is even weaker, with half as much health and a much easier to avoid attack.
* HeavilyArmoredMook: One of the enemies you fight are Animated Dead wearing their ''coffins'' as impromptu armor. They can take far more damage than regular undead as a result, though their "armor" can be bypassed by targeting their limbs or (if you've got ''really'' good aim) headshoting them through a small hole in the front of the coffin.
* ImmersiveSim: Despite the chunky ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' style {{Retraux}} graphics, the game is not a throwback "Boomer Shooter" style [=FPS=], but rather has a greater emphasis on stealth, exploration, and character skills, being closer to games like ''VideoGame/DeusEx''.
* InformedSpecies: The giant "leech" enemies look suspiciously reptilian and nothing like leeches, and are more like zombified baby crocodiles. They suck your blood if they manage to attach themselves on you, albeit with tentacles instead.

* KillItWithFire: Subverted - fire is used to defeat [[spoiler: the Giant]], but it only makes it vulnerable to the player's attacks.

* RegeneratingHealth: The Vendigo Heart artifact gives you relatively slow regenerating health (1 hp every 8 seconds) at the cost of reducing your max health by 10%. It's too slow to be useful in combat, but if you're patient it can save you quite a lot of money on health potions and let you regenerate your health for free without respawning enemies by resting.

* TreacherousQuestGiver: [[spoiler:At the end of Chapter 3, the Totem of Souls betrays you and becomes the game's FinalBoss. From context this seems more like a spur-of-the-moment impulsive opportunistic action rather than part of any grand scheme. The Undead Cowboy even warns you the Totem is made up of thousands of unstable souls and its actions can be unpredictable. In the end, it's not even clear whether the Totem is the source of the Curse of the West or just another symptom of it.]]

* HeavilyArmoredMook: One of the enemies you fight are Animated Dead wearing their ''coffins'' as impromptu armor. They can take far more damage than regular undead as a result.

* NonMaliciousMonster: Downplayed with Mary the Boo Hag in Chapter 3. She does enjoy killing humans, but she's not a mindless beast and doesn't kill ''every'' human she meets and is quite friendly with you as a fellow undead.

* SadisticChoice: In Chapter 2, you're tasked to get a priest back to camp, who is afflicted with a disease that could possibly end his life. When you get him back to camp, he reveals how he came to the area because of rumors of a cure for all diseases, and because of his state, you have to retrieve it. After this, if you talk to Annabelle, the woman who asked you to retrieve him and also has a disease that's slowly killing her, she'll tell you that she overheard your talk with the priest and asks you to give her the cure if you find it. [[spoiler:Whoever you give the cure to will be cured of their affliction while whoever didn't succumbs to theirs.]]
* SawedOffShotgun: One of the first firearms you can use besides the revolver. It can be reloaded quickly due to its length.

* {{Wendigo}}: One of the EliteMook-type enemies you can encounter, depicted as a beast with shaggy white fur and gigantic talons. It's even named Wendigo in-game.

* BerserkButton: [[Narcissist Prodigal Daughters]] wear armored masks that hide their deformities. If they're shot off, they will enter an enraged state that causes them to run towards the player instead of walking so they can use their shotgun faster.

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: What the end of the game reveals. Despite the Undead's efforts to undo the curse and free themselves from their undead existence - as well as all the good they've done for the people they've met along their journey - the curse persists, spreading across the country and allowing more and more demons to rise, leading to the destruction of entire cities and the deaths of thousands. As for the Undead, they wander the lands aimlessly, having no purpose and no way to find rest, until they end up going back to Totem of Souls, having nowhere else to go.]]

* BerserkButton: Prodigal Daughters wear masks that hide their deformities and absorbs damage. If they're shot off, they will enter an enraged state that causes them to run towards the player instead of walking and become more aggressive towards them.

* HeavilyArmoredMook: One of the enemies you fight are zombies wearing their ''coffins'' as impromptu armor. They can take far more damage than regular undead as a result.

* InformedSpecies: The giant "leech" enemies looks suspiciously reptilian and nothing like leeches, and resembles closer to a zombified crocodile if anything. Although they ''do'' suck your blood if they manage to attach themselves on you, albeit with tentacles instead.
* InvisibleMonster: Yes, there is one in this game.

* BirdPeople: Undead bird-men shows up as another enemy, where their skulls are more avian than humanoid. They're armed with rifles, and somehow the lack of eyes doesn't dim their aim.

* DeadWeight: Fat zombies armed with axes are among the stronger enemies you have to fight, where their {{kevlard}} allows them to absorb plenty of shots. They're also quite {{acrofatic}}, running all over the place.
* DesertSkull: That ''speaks'' to you. You'll find bovine skulls on poles all over the desert, all of them inhabited by Native American spirits and comes to life when approached, with glowing blue light emitting from their eye-sockets. The ''first'' NPC you spoke to is in fact one such skull.
* DownerEnding: At the end, you fight and defeat [[spoiler: Totem of Souls]], so the curse is lifted and the Undead is freed, right? [[spoiler: ''No''. Totem's monologue makes it clear that it's still alive, and the Undead's efforts amount to nothing. The following scenes show the curse ''spreading'' beyond the Barren Lands, with one showing a battle between some ironclads and a ''giant demon in the middle of a city''. The credits show the Undead wandering aimlessly, fighting demons wherever they go, only to end up going back to Totem because they have nowhere else to go.]]

* PreMortemOneLiner: You let out one of these periodically after killing an enemy.

* SkullForAHead: The humanoid enemies all have skulls in place of their craniums, even if the rest of their bodies still have flesh on them. Likely to emphasize on their undead nature. You do encounter a benevolent example when you revive a cowboy whose face is all bones to ask him for clues.

* TreacherousQuestGiver: [[spoiler: At the end of Chapter 3, the Totem of Souls betrays you and becomes the game's FinalBoss. From context this seems more like a spur-of-the-moment impulsive opportunistic action rather than part of any grand scheme. The Undead Cowboy even warns you the Totem is made up of thousands of unstable souls and its actions can be unpredictable. In the end it's not even clear whether the Totem is the source of the Curse of the West or just another symptom of it.]]
* {{Wendigo}}: One of the EliteMook-type enemies you can encounter, depicted as a beast with shaggy white fur and gigantic talons. It's even named Wendigo in-game.
* WhenTreesAttack: The Mother of the Roots boss is a gigantic tree growing in a lake of ''blood'', who attacks you with her [[VineTentacles roots]] while being [[StationaryBoss stationary due to growing on the ground]]. She's immune to all your attacks however, and you can only damage her when she starts absorbing blood to power herself - at which point her midsection opens to [[AttackOnTheHeart reveal a human heart-like organ]].

* DesertSkull: That ''speaks'' to you. You'll find bovine skulls on poles all over the desert, all of them inhabited by Native American spirits and comes to life when approached, with glowing blue light emiting from their eye-sockets. The ''first'' NPC you spoke to is in fact one such skull.

--> They can stare at a wall for hours, seemingly ebven enjoying it and then shamble thoughtlessly around...

* SawedOffShotgun: One of the first firearms you can use besides the revolver. It can be reloaded quickly due to it's length.

"You're undead. We brought you here, by means of our immense powers from whenever place you've been before. We know of your exploits and achievements. Your fame reaches wide across the country. THe nasty rumors about you reach even further. You're our Ace in a sleeve..."