Use your favourite features in-game with our Desktop AppFar, Far West is the latest co-op friendly, Western-themed roguelike to hit the gaming scene. Often compared to Risk of Rain, it blends robotic enemies, deep elemental spellcasting, and a rewarding permanent progression system.
Whether you are tackling the frontier solo or saddling up with a posse of friends, the early game can be incredibly punishing. Here are some tips to help you survive the wilds, maximize your loot, and build the ultimate gunslinger.
The Saloon serves as your central hub. After every run, win or lose, you will return here to spend your hard-earned Gold and Souls to permanently upgrade your character, weapons, and spells.
Weapon fragments do not just drop randomly. You must actively select and "track" the specific weapon you want to unlock. Once a weapon is unlocked, remember to switch your tracking to a new item or to unlock weapon skins.
Gold is incredibly scarce early on. Spend your Souls to equip weapons with gold-generating perks, such as a 5% chance to drop gold on kill. Stacking this effect creates an economic snowball that vastly speeds up your progression.
While purchasing direct upgrades like health and movement speed is highly recommended for survival, you should eventually use the gambling shop. Spending 250 Souls gives you a random perk ranging from Common to Legendary. If you are lucky, you might pull a game-changing ability, like an automatic revive every 180 seconds.
Combat in Far, Far West heavily relies on five distinct spell trees: Pyro, Acid, Electric, Voodoo, and Cactus. Understanding how to level and mix these is the key to surviving higher difficulties.
Beginners should immediately grab the Fireball for raw area-of-effect damage and the Voodoo Drain for a quick, free health boost in emergencies. Solo players should heavily invest in the Cactus tree, which offers deployable mines and turrets that are perfect for kiting massive hordes of enemies.
Spells only level up through active use, so spam them on cooldown. Crucially, always use an elemental line at least once during a run to secure a massive one-time XP bonus to help level up that specific tree faster.
You can assign an elemental attribute to your secondary weapon: Pyro deals the highest continuous tick damage, Acid slows enemies down, and Electric chains damage between nearby targets. Combining these secondary attacks with your active spells creates devastating reactions. For instance, merging a Firebeam with a Thrower spell summons a giant flaming tornado.
Navigating the map efficiently is just as vital as your raw combat skills. The environment is packed with secrets, and understanding the flow of a stage will keep you alive.
These map markers lead to bonus gold, souls, and temporary perks. Take your time traversing the map to find unmarked puzzles, graveyards, and side quests along the way.
Once you defeat a stage's boss, the game immediately unleashes an infinite wave of enemies. Always finish your exploration and side quests before triggering the final encounter, or you will be quickly overrun.
Never hoard your healing potions. If you are low on health, drink up instantly—especially in solo play where there are no teammate revives. Additionally, picking up mid-fight perk drops will restore a chunk of your health. Take note that playing on harder difficulties yields significantly rarer perk drops.
Movement is life. Constantly kite enemies in loops, utilize your trusty horse Roach for early-game traversal, and never stay stationary. On Nightmare difficulty, sniper enemies will track you flawlessly unless you keep moving and break their aim.
Far, Far West can be a brutal grind, particularly for solo players. If you find yourself struggling, there is no shame in lowering the difficulty to comfortably farm upgrades. Because of the permanent progression system, no run is ever truly wasted. Keep moving, experiment with elemental combos, and remember that every death is just another step toward conquering the frontier.
