Planned Release Date: Oct 27, 2026

About This Game

The frontier buried its secrets. Now they’re digging their way out.

Cowpokers: Dead Man’s Frontier is a western bullet heaven where each run builds toward a fight for your hometown. Choose your outlaw, swear an oath, and face the restless dead. Your weapons fire automatically. You decide where to move, when to dodge, and what your next upgrade will become.

Start small. Leave a crater.

Turn a few desperate shots into ricocheting volleys, spectral lassos, wildfire and rolling dynamite barrages. Shape your build with twelve weapons and their legendary evolutions, thirteen trinkets, rerolls and banishes. Six weapon slots and six trinket slots make each choice count; distant trail caches can push a build beyond its usual limits.

Explore four haunted frontiers.

Fight through Dustwater’s streets and Boot Hill cemetery, explore Blackridge Mine’s dark passages and hidden supply rooms, follow the haunted railway through Coffin Pass, and brave the eruptions of Devil’s Basin. Reveal the mine’s survey map as you explore and use it to track objectives and unlooted chests. Each trail brings its own hazards, encounters, bosses and score.

Take a detour for an optional reward: ring the mission bell, defend a stranded wagon, or break the burial anchors. Decide when to pursue an opportunity and when to keep moving.

Five outlaws. Your kind of trouble.

Begin as trail warden Hollis Rusk and recruit four more playable outlaws with different starting weapons and traits. Discover guarded hideouts and help Jonah Reed defend a wagon in Coffin Pass. Choose from three starting oaths and Relaxed, Frontier or Nightmare difficulty.

Earn the sunrise. Ride home.

Survive until dawn, defeat the trail’s final boss, and approach your horse. Ride with your weapons still firing, trample stragglers, and explore without an extraction deadline. Finish optional objectives and collect remaining chests before heading home. Leave through the eastern road or the mine’s timbered exit when you are ready to end the run. Standard trails reach dawn at twenty minutes; Quickdraw reaches it at ten.

Ride home. Defend Dustwater.

Walk Dustwater’s streets, meet its residents and step inside the buildings that keep your campaign moving. Bring back limited supplies from the four frontier trails and choose how to reinforce the town: a west barricade, a watchtower or an infirmary.

Clear all four trails to unlock the fifth level: Dustwater’s nighttime defense. Begin each defense with a fresh weapon build, hold the roads as the attacks intensify, intercept shielded powder crews, and face the Siege Marshal. Protect both your outlaw and the town—either can fall.

Bring something back for the workbench.

Find hidden tool crates and recover weapon fittings on the trails. Ride home to keep them, then visit the craftsman in General Supplies to purchase small, permanent improvements for individual weapons. Follow Trail Rumors for clues to special boss rewards. Discover weapon evolution recipes as you play; combinations you have not uncovered stay hidden.

Every trail leaves its mark.

Bank bounty even when you fall. Invest in twelve refundable camp disciplines, uncover supply caches, pursue 32 in-game achievements including two hidden discoveries, and track your run history. Earn five cosmetic rewards, from Midnight Dusters to flaming or spectral hoofprints. Keep six independent saves, or combine Hardcore, Self-made and Hellbound challenge rules. Suspend an unfinished run and return when you’re ready.

• Five playable outlaws, twelve weapons, twelve legendary evolutions and thirteen trinkets
  
• Four frontier trails with distinct hazards, bosses and optional encounters, plus a fifth town-defense level
  
• A walkable town hub, building interiors and limited supplies to spend on reinforcements
  
• Connected mine chambers, limited visibility, hidden supplies and an exploration-reveal survey map
  
• Recoverable weapon fittings, a town workbench and discoverable evolution recipes
  
• Mounted exploration after dawn and a ride home to end the run
  
• Three difficulties, three starting oaths and refundable camp progression
  
• Six saves with optional Hardcore, Self-made and Hellbound rules
  
• Automatic attacks with optional manual aim; remappable movement and dodge
  
• Auto, Keyboard and Controller input modes
  
• Separate volume controls, optional screen shake, reduced effects and night lighting
  
• 32 in-game achievements, two hidden discoveries and five cosmetic rewards
  
• Offline single-player play and suspend/resume

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI tools assisted visual artwork, audio and some text. No live AI generation occurs during gameplay.