The Wild West meets Eldritch horrors in Midwest Games and developer Max Mraz’s 2D souls-like action RPG Tombwater, which has just released a demo on Steam. Accompanying the demo release is a new trailer, with Tombwater itself releasing later this year.

Enter Tombwater, where shadows roam and whispers echo from deep within the abandoned silver mines. This is no longer a town where people live, but a town where people die. A once-thriving community, now a shell of what it was, its people have been gripped by the tendrils of bleak madness.

You are a lone gunslinger, drawn to the eerie, decaying streets by the disappearance of Sheriff Elliott Flintwood — your only friend in a town lost to the abyss. Uncover the truth, face the terrors lurking in the depths, and confront what festers within the heart of Tombwater.

In the demo, players glimpse into the past of the once-prosperous mining camp,...