One of the biggest surprises of Steam's most recent Next Fest was Far Far West, a robot wizard cowboy co-op FPS with some yeehaw-worthy gunslinging and spellcasting that earned it a place among the event's top five most-played demos. Far Far West is now days away from its early access launch after its demo earned an Overwhelmingly Positive rating from over 6,000 reviews by Next Fest's end.
According to Nicolas Meyssonnier, studio head of Far Far West developer Evil Raptor, those numbers were "way, way above" what the France-based, eight-person indie studio expected. In an interview with PC Gamer, Meyssonier said Evil Raptor's previous work developing "very niche" 3D platformers had left it totally unprepared for the massive Next Fest response.
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