Underplayed Gems

El Hijo: A Wild West Tale (2020)

El Hijo: A Wild West Tale cover
Developer
Honig Studios
Publisher
HandyGames
Platforms
Google Stadia, PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Genres
Puzzle, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Rating
3.8 of 5, 4 player ratings
Where to get it
Nintendo eShop

How it feels

You guide a small boy through a stylized Wild West, using stealth and wit to sneak past threats without violence.

stealthtacticalatmosphericlightheartedpuzzle-ymethodicalchild protagonistwestern

About

El Hijo is a spaghetti western, indie stealth game. The game is set in a mythical place of the 19th century that very much resembles the American west, as we know it from Sergio Leoneā€˜s westerns, taking some of its most popular characteristics of outlaw gangs, saloons, cunning, sarcasm, irony, etc. There is no indication of a specific time, or place. It could be everywhere and anywhere. You guide 6-year old boy El Hijo on his quest to find his father, by escaping a monastery, fighting his way through the desert and avoiding monstrous creatures, and outsmarting horrible gangsters in the saloon of a villain town.

Trailer

Screenshots

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