Super Amazing Wagon Adventure
2012
- shooter
- adventure
- indie
- action
- fantasy
- historical
- comedy
- single player
The story
Super Amazing Wagon Adventure is a fast-paced 2d shooting game with a random story. You control a group of three migrants traveling west along a wagon trail. The game consists of short scenes that are sequenced together in a semi-random way to tell a crazy adventure story. One minute you could be massacring a herd of buffalo, the next attacked by eagles while falling off a cliff.
What it’s like
Chunky, hand-drawn 2D pixel-style sprites bounce across flat, sun-bleached prairie backdrops, with dusty ochre plains, pale sky and scrubby hills giving way to sudden bursts of red gore and orange explosion flashes. The wagon lurches over the same few landscapes with a cheerful, scrappy energy, and the soundtrack is a looping, banjo-tinged chiptune with steam whistles and gunfire punching through. Scenes are short and snappy, often lasting only seconds before cutting to the next absurd beat, so the rhythm feels like a loose, unpredictable flip-book rather than a steady march. Its vibe is goofy, irreverent and mildly chaotic, with a parodic, deadpan take on frontier hardship. It suits a short burst of distraction, a few quick sessions on a lazy afternoon, or a playful night with friends who enjoy laughing at things falling apart. Violence is frequent and cartoonish, with blood spatter, disease, animal deaths and permadeath, but it reads as slapstick rather than grim. For people who want a silly, fast, gleefully violent romp and do not mind dark jokes about dying of dysentery.
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