why not the wild west?

[Pus in Boots]

here we have a game that in every way makes me think of the wild west, even in the intro video with the story of why the people head out into the wilderness to try their luck. so why is the timeline set in the middle ages? when it could have been so cool with a wild west theme, or the time leading up to the American Civil War when the wilderness was just being explored. don't get me wrong the game looks good, with a lot of good details, the market is just overcrowded with games in the period around the Middle Ages

[The Former]

That's probably just it.

It makes us thing of the wild west in every way. Yet despite the fact that people much further back than the American west dealt with the same challenges, this topic is rarely ever touched before the 1700's in video games.

I suspect doing so was something the devs considered to be putting an interesting spin on the notion of frontier survival.

[Pus in Boots]

I see your point, it's just that all games are either medieval, WW2, Sciencs Fiction or Fantasy.
maybe I just wanted some other aspects of the timeline

[Kalimah]

Just be glad there isn't any zombies... my God man.... zombies this. Zombies that....

[HellSlayer]

Idk.. i would like some prehistoric stuff with dinosaurs city builder.. could be pure fantasy based game with stone walls and dinos chewing them up and some humans using magic attacks to sway them off..

[Batza]

There is a similar game coming later this year with a wild west theme, Wild West Dynasty.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1329880/Wild_West_Dynasty/

[Blackthorne]

If you're looking for a Wild West themed builder, maybe check this one out:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/762650/Depraved/

[The Holy Ghost - Its Fight Night]

There are already plenty of games set in the "Wild West". It may appeal to some people to have more of them. But the world is so much bigger than America. Setting it to be more European medieval makes it much more appealing for a lot more people. Not only did the ancestors of Americans go through these times. But so did BILLIONS of other peoples ancestors.

To make it wild west would might lead to more sales in America. But no doubt FAR less sales in the rest of the world. The devs are smart to have done what they did. After all, close to 4% of people live in America. Where as close to 10% of people live in Europe. And as far as I can tell, more Americans are interested in this history than Europeans are interested in the wild west. Also most of America wasn't the "wild west". More than half of it was actually more like this at that time. In fact the developers are in Massachusetts, which was much more like this than anything "wild west". So its more similar to their own history.

Down the line I am sure modders will do a Wild West skin for the game if there is enough interest.

[Volunteer]

Originally posted by Pus in Boots:

here we have a game that in every way makes me think of the wild west, even in the intro video with the story of why the people head out into the wilderness to try their luck. so why is the timeline set in the middle ages? when it could have been so cool with a wild west theme, or the time leading up to the American Civil War when the wilderness was just being explored. don't get me wrong the game looks good, with a lot of good details, the market is just overcrowded with games in the period around the Middle Ages

Maybe the 'middle ages' vibes better for many, many other people who do not think irl that the world revolves around everything Murican.

The covered wagon is definitely an old west settler icon and looks cooler than an ox cart of medieval Europe.

[bsevorg2010]

What if there was a game where it was in a timeline between medieval and modern day with the west then the wars and it could have multiple maps across the world