If you enjoyed 2023’s neo-noir shooter El Paso, Elsewhere, Strange Scaffold has more in store for you with the follow-up, El Paso, Elsewhere 2. In addition to giving players more fast-paced combat combined with brooding, introspective storytelling in otherworldly environments, this time around, players will battle through 20+ handcrafted levels filled with sinister gargoyles, possessed animatronics, and gun-toting vampires.
Following the events of El Paso, Elsewhere (check out Aaron’s review), this sequel puts players back in control of protagonist James Savage as he journeys across the United States slaying monsters and sealing away insidious supernatural forces. Betrayed by a close friend, James is dragged into the Void itself to repay a terrible debt to an eldritch horror. He once killed the monster he loved to save the world. Now, he must save his betrayer to save himself.
“Strange Scaffold nearly closed in the process of making the first El Paso, Elsewhere. It’s a game I never thought we’d have a chance to build a sequel for,” says Strange Scaffold studio head Xalavier Nelson Jr. “So, we’re going to build on the things that worked in the original game, including our existing pieces of art, to create exciting gameplay we never could have even imagined before. I can’t wait for folks to see how far James Savage can go.”
Players will this time around use vampiric abilities to dive off of thin air, backflip off of enemies, and feed on the blood that erupts from your opponents when you stake them. You’ll also be taking the fight to reality-defying nightclubs, multi-dimensional libraries, eerie suburbia, and more lairs of eldritch horrors.
At your disposal are 15 weapons, ranging from Western revolvers, to automatic shotguns, to a tommy gun that fires vampire-killing stakes. You’ll need them, as you’ll be confronting Frankenstein, goblin shamans, biblically-accurate angels, and a horde of supernatural enemies both new and old to the series.
El Paso, Elsewhere 2 launches on PC via Steam and on Xbox Series next year.