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Card Cowboy roots and toots even more in an expanded version£2 for a load of weird adventures
£2 for a load of weird adventures
Last month,I enjoyed playing Card Cowboy, a wee wild west adventure which uses cards to tell silly stories. As you cross the land in search of revenge, you build a hand of cards representing resources and events, which you use to resolve situations—often with strange and surprising results. What does happen if you try to lasso a villain with a mezcal worm? That free version was fun, and now the devs have expanded it into a £2 paid version with new cards, conundrums, and voice acting. It too is fun!
Card Cowboy Steam trailerWatch on YouTube
Card Cowboy Steam trailer
As I explained last time, the destination is less important than the journey:
Half the fun of each 20-minute run is in discovering strange outcomes. Not every situation has a bespoke solution for every card, but plenty oddity awakes. I’ve accidentally robbed people, accidentally caught dysentery, accidentally declared my love for my horse, accidentally formed a large posse composed one oil baron and a load of babies, and more. Even if I don’t win, I’ve enjoyed living the strange final days of my cowboy. And yes, I think it’s funny that the new narration is clearly inserting separate recordings for card nouns into sentences.
I’ve seen plenty of new cards and events in the new version, and look forward to discovering more then combining them. Helpfully, it adds a ‘cardpedia’ tracking which cards you’ve found. The new Steam achievements offer strange challenges and suggestions, too.
Card Cowboy’s expanded version is availablefrom Steamfor Windows and Mac. With the 10% launch week discount, it’s only £1.88/€2.15/$2.69. The original game jam version is still available pay-what-you-want (with no minimum)on Itch.io, which I suppose you can treat as a demo.
