That Lonesome Valley is a short retro-style gay romance game / visual novel about walking, sheepherding, and kissing.
by Robert Yang (
https://debacle.us
)
⚠️CONTENT WARNING: 🔞 This game contains (pixel art cartoon) nudity and some gay sex sequences. ⚠️
Jose and Bud are two young men alone in the Wyoming wilderness. What's gonna happen between them? Are they gonna fight? Are they gonna... kiss? Well now, I reckon that's all up to you, cowboy.

For behind-the-scenes info about what happens in the game and why, read my artist statement
"That Lonesome Valley as cowboy coin crusher"
Video:
Gameplay video (no commentary), first 10 minutes on YouTube
.
PLAYERS: 1
PLATFORMS: Web browser, Windows, MacOS, Linux
web version is less fancy, iPhone / iPad may be buggy
for "full experience", download and play on desktop
LANGUAGES: English only (sorry)
RUNTIME: about 30 minutes
CONTROLS: Mouse, touch, or keyboard
QUEER COWBOYS: 2
TRY THESE OTHER RUGGED MASCULINE GAMES BY ROBERT YANG:
Logjam
,
Hard Lads
,
The Tearoom
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Originally prototyped in 1.5 weeks for

GayWesternJam

back in 2019, but now actually finished and released in December 2022.
GAMEPLAY HINTS
You don't have to say what you think he wants you to say.
To avoid getting lost,
use your map and stay near landmarks like the river. To open your map, click / tap the map icon in the top-left or press [M] key.
To get sheep to trust you,
try to get close enough to feed them a carrot (click / tap the FEED button or press [F] key). You may have to use water, hills, or trees to slow / trap the sheep.
Sometimes it's better to go back to the flock with just a few sheep. It's harder to bring back a big group of sheep all at once.
It doesn't always work out, but you know, that's life.