El Hijo: A Wild West Tale
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 Leone‘s westerns, taking some…
El Hijo: A Wild West Tale is an adventure developed by Honig Studios, released 3 December 2020 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android.
What El Hijo: A Wild West Tale is
El Hijo: A Wild West Tale is an adventure game developed by Honig Studios and released in 2020. It was published by HandyGames. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, Google Stadia, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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 Leone‘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.
How it plays
Its themes are action, kids and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 22 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
El Hijo: A Wild West Tale holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual Core CPU - 2.6ghz, 8 GB RAM and GeForce 560 or higher, AMD Radeon HD 5830 or higher. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
El Hijo: A Wild West Tale launched on 3 December 2020, within three weeks of Cyberpunk 2077, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Astro's Playroom. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Cyberpunk 2077, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Astro's Playroom.
Official trailer
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