West of Loathing review — a Southwestern tour of the moo-pocalypse

West of Loathing is a surreal role-playing game with an unapologetically silly sense of humor that would make Mel Brooks proud. It’s the latest title from Asymmetric Publications, whose web-based RPG Kingdom of Loathing is still going strong since its 2003 launch.

Kingdom of Loathing is what you’d get if you fed a rowdy bunch of dads a steady diet of memes and Monty Python movies and then made them play Dungeons & Dragons. West of Loathing features much of the same comedy, this time in the flavor of spaghetti Western.