Fit check
Is Wild West Crops worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who want a short, retro-styled metroidvania with Old West themes
- Fans of exploration games who enjoy alternate routes and item collection
- Action players looking for a lighthearted game about fighting mutant enemies
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a large, long-form metroidvania may find the mini format too limited
- Those looking for complex systems or deep character progression may find the structure lightweight
- Players who prefer realistic settings may not want a game about a pistolero cat and mutant crops
Our take on Wild West Crops
The Old West setting and mutant-crop premise receive more emphasis than the game’s compact scale. The available feature list points to a small exploration-and-combat experience built around alternate routes, collectible items, and simple ability upgrades.
What is Wild West Crops?
Wild West Crops is a compact metroidvania set in an Old West world after a radioactive meteor transforms Meowtown’s crops into hostile mutants.
Players control El Gatito, a pistolero cat who travels through different locations, searches for items, and fights the vegetable enemies threatening the town. The game includes branching routes, collectible objects such as extra lives and explosives, and special items that grant useful abilities. Its presentation uses colorful 8-bit-style visuals and Western-inspired music. The central structure combines exploration across multiple settings with combat against the mutant horde and an objective to free Meowtown from the invasion.
How Wild West Crops plays
- 01Branching Routes
- Different paths let players choose between alternate ways through the game’s locations.
- 02Collectible Items
- Objects include extra lives, explosives, and other items found during exploration.
- 03Ability Items
- Special objects provide abilities used while traveling and fighting enemies.
- 048-Bit Presentation
- The game uses colorful pixel-styled visuals with music inspired by Western themes.
Wild West Crops compared to similar games
Wild West Crops is a compact, retro-style metroidvania with collectible items, alternate routes, and an Old West setting. Sundered: Eldritch Edition is also a metroidvania, but its description presents a chaotic adventure with prior updates and a new content update rather than Wild West Crops’ small-scale cat-versus-mutant-crops structure.
Wild West Crops: platforms & release
Is Wild West Crops worth it?
It is worth it if: players who want a short, retro-styled metroidvania with Old West themes. Skip it if: players seeking a large, long-form metroidvania may find the mini format too limited.
Where can I download Wild West Crops?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Wild West Crops's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Wild West Crops on?
Windows only.
