Virtuous Western

Virtuous Western offers a speed run mode, where you do the same kind of puzzles against a stopwatch. This offers something to pad the run time, but the puzzles aren’t hard in the first place, so it’s still not a hugely challenging game.

All in all Virtuous Western is a nice game. The gameplay loop is easy enough to get to grips with, but it’s also not a title that’ll hold the attention for a long time. Achievement hunters will likely blast through it, but those looking for something to sink their teeth into are best of looking elsewhere.

Virtuous Western is very short and very easy. It sets up some vaguely interesting mechanics without ever doing anything challenging with them. If you want an easy way into speedrunning, this might be it; otherwise, steer well clear.

It has some brilliant ways of dispatching enemies and solving puzzles, and the easy achievements are a nice addition. But plonking a puzzle game in the Wild West ultimately falls short here, because the game simply lacks any sense of challenge. Virtuous Western is too easy, and the new elements that are thrown in later on do little, if anything, to change that.