Cowboy games: The best Western games in 2024

Yeehaw, partner. If you’re looking for the best cowboy games, kick open these saloon doors and step inside

Cowboy games – they’re not as common as you might think. Rockstar gave us some of the best Western games with Red Dead Redemption and especially Red Dead Redemption 2, and it feels like a lot of other developers barred the shutters and hid away inside after that. Still, there are some brilliant games for virtual gunslingers if you know where to look and want to swap the usual video game cities for the untamed wilderness.

Set your clock to high noon and let’s dive in.

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Weird West

Weird West has all manner of supernatural oddities, but it’s nothing your iron can’t fix. What starts as a traditional Western revenge story quickly morphs into something, well, weird. Before you know it, you’re robbing banks as a pigman and fighting off flesh-hungry zombies. Whether you’re fanning the hammer or cowboy-booting someone through a window, Weird West is a rootin’, tootin’ good time.