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El Paso, Elsewhere

Strange Scaffold · 2023-09-26

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Action

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Sep 26, 2023 (Xbox One), Sep 26, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Sep 17, 2024 (iOS), Sep 20, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Sep 26, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

STAKES. GUNS. SLOW-MO. Fight werewolves and vampires in a reality-shifting motel. Dive through barricades to escape the grasp of evil puppets. Destroy the villain you loved. A new, third-person love letter to classic shooters. Neo-noir never looked so good.

90%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
82/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)
El Paso, Elsewhere is a 2023 third-person shooter game developed and published by Strange Scaffold. Players control a vampire hunter who tries to stop his ex-girlfriend, a vampire, from destroying the world. The game is inspired by Max Payne and has retro 2000s-era graphics.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 103 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~13/week).
  • · Review velocity up 6% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 14,226 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 30k–67k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,479 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$13.99-30%
Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $9.99 at Steam (2026-04-18) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $13.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days · $4.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
24924920232026Week of 2023-09-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 249 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
94.2%
earned "WAKEUP"
26.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-09-26 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,2074%21
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)48811%21
PS5 (PlayStation)40332%22

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DDarkActionHorrorStealthZombiesSurvivalAdventureCinematicStory Rich

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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