Far Far West is the rare multiplayer game that respects your time

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Far Far West, a new sci-fi friendslop indie, knows that the best way to keep you playing is to not try monopolizing your time

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Image: Evil Raptor/Fireshine Games Far Far West , a new friendslop-adjacent game that's taking over Steam, is a bit like Helldivers 2 , only with ghosts and skeletons instead of aliens. And robot cowboys instead of soldiers. There's no satire, though, and no time limit. Anyway, structurally , the two are very similar, with one very important exception: Far Far West isn't trying to take me away from anything else.

Far Far West has you pick a mission with a single objective, such as firing a big cannon or shooting a laser, and then fight a big boss at the end. Once a flying train takes you to the mission location, you're free to explore and find side quests or loot or just rush to the objective, where you'll fend off waves of enemies while trying to do your job. The boss appears after you complete the main task, and then it's time to summon the train again, survive one last big push from the local skeleton mobs, and leave. Then you do it again, either in the same place or somewhere different.

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