El Hijo: A Wild West Tale (2020)
Android · Google Stadia · Mac · Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · Xbox One · iOS
2.20 from 10 ratings
258 members have it in their collection · 3 playing now · 175 backlogged · 15 wish listed
How long? Main story 10h (from 2 logged playthroughs)
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 …
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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.
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Details
- Developers
- Honig Studios
- Publishers
- HandyGames
- Genres
- Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Strategy
- Themes
- Action, Kids, Stealth
- Event
- PC Gaming Show 2019
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- Dec 03, 2020 (Worldwide) Google Stadia, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One
- Mar 25, 2021 (North_America) Nintendo Switch
- Mar 25, 2021 (Europe) Nintendo Switch
- Jan 25, 2022 (Worldwide) iOS
Related
Bundled in
- Award Winning Indie Gems 4-in-1 (Sep 2023) · NSW
- 4-in-1 Award Winning Indie Gems (Nov 2024) · PS4, XONE, XSX
- Indie All Star Bundle vol. 4
- Award Winning Game Pack
Rating distribution
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Community All Reviews Statuses
Review Vakil 3/5 · Sep 11, 2021
Okay if a bit annoying
I played the Switch version, FYI. This game was more fun at first and it started to get more annoying as I progressed. The toys and tricks didn't seem work as expected in some of the later levels. It was difficult to tell if this was a bug or simply an increased level of difficulty.
The pros: I like the …
I played the Switch version, FYI. This game was more fun at first and it started to get more annoying as I progressed. The toys and tricks didn't seem work as expected in some of the later levels. It was difficult to tell if this was a bug or simply an increased level of difficulty.
The pros: I like the entire concept of a game where you don’t kill anyone and just sneak around guards. As a parent, the story of a child taken from his mother and trying to find her again is a moving one. And the final scene is a little bit of tearjerker. The challenges are usually difficult enough to make you think but rarely too tough, except for the few cases where expected tricks didn’t seem to work.
The cons: mainly the controls and the inconsistency of the distracting toys. There seemed to be a delay with arming/firing the sling. I don’t think it was Switch button since it doesn’t seem to happen with any other game and it got me caught many times. With the toys, I would find that guards wouldn’t always get distracted the way the toy promised. I never did figure out what I was missing.
All in all, it’s a unique game and short (I beat it in 12 hours but I always take twice as long as HowLongToBeat suggests I should) and for that alone it could be worth getting on sale for low intensity gaming. I’ll never replay it, I think.