13 Books Like Crimson Useless Redemption

Crimson Useless Redemption, and particularly the sequel* Crimson Useless Redemption 2, are one thing of a cultural milestone in video video games. They’re additionally simply actually enjoyable, particularly if I don’t suppose too exhausting concerning the often appallingly unhealthy storytelling. (In a recreation referred to as Crimson Useless Redemption, maybe it will be good if really letting your character redeem himself have been an choice???) I get pleasure from watching another person play greater than enjoying myself, personally, however enjoying will be actually, actually enjoyable. Westerns are my problematic fave, and I loved making this checklist of books like Crimson Useless Redemption (2, principally) to learn once I can’t persuade my husband to play.

*Crimson Useless Redemption is itself a sequel, to a principally forgotten PS2/X-Field recreation referred to as Crimson Useless Revolver.

13 Books Like Crimson Useless Redemption

American Hippo by Sarah Gailey

A bind-up of their novellas River of Tooth and Style of Marrow, with further new tales, American Hippo is THE alternate western of my coronary heart. In an alternate 1890 U.S., Winslow Houndstooth gathers a crew of the “damnedest cons, outlaws, and assassins to ever experience a hippo” and makes an attempt to drag off a heist.

Something for Billy by Larry McMurtry

An alternate model of the favored story of Billy the Child, that is my favourite e book ever written by grasp of the western style Larry McMurtry.

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Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

After World Warfare II, Tayo returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation the place he tries to deal with the horrors of his wartime expertise and rejection from his folks. This novel is ready later than a lot of the others on this checklist, however it’s critical to have a look at native views on the west, no matter time interval.

Useless Man’s Hand: An Anthology of the Bizarre West edited by John Joseph Adams

This anthology of bizarre western tales contains steampunk, aliens, and different fantastical western shorts by quite a lot of authors together with Laura Anne Gilman and Ken Liu.

Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell

Tombstone, Arizona, 1881. That is maybe the only greatest portrayal of the occasions on the O.Ok. Corral, an unflinching western that makes actual occasions really feel recent.

Fools Crow by James Welch

This basic novel tells the story of Fools Crow, a medication man and warrior of the Lone Eaters, a small band of Black Ft in Montana territory who’re coping with the encroaching white migration west.

The Good Luck Ladies by Charlotte Nicole Davis

In an alternate west, a gaggle of younger girls escape from sexual servitude in a welcome home after considered one of them kills a person in self protection. On the run, they seek for a legendary lady who can take away the marks that determine them.

Gunsmoke & Glamour by Hilary Monahan

Marshall Clay Jensen, reeling from a breakup with the fairy who was the love of his life, is cursed by a witch and has to seek for the treatment with the assistance of his greatest good friend Doc Irene and his ex-girlfriend’s sister Adelaide.

O Pioneers by Willa Cather

I selected O Pioneers over My Antonia (my favourite Cather novel) as a result of the latter is longer and extra laconic in its storytelling, whereas O Pioneers has a desperation that’s extra just like the tempo of Crimson Useless Redemption. Nothing a lot occurs after which all the things occurs.

The Sixth World by Rebecca Roanhorse

In Path of Lightning and the sequel Storm of Locusts, Maggie is a Dinétah monster hunter in a futuristic west, working as a bounty hunter and taking jobs in search of a lacking lady and investigating a cult.

Steampunk! edited by Kelly Hyperlink

This assortment of steampunk brief tales feels proper at dwelling on the planet of Crimson Useless Redemption, the place it all the time feels—at the very least to me—like magic is simply out of sight however positively there, ready under the floor of the sport world.

Upright Ladies Needed by Sarah Gailey

Sure, I’m together with two books by Sarah Gailey (three if you wish to get technical, since American Hippo is a bind-up). Their westerns are simply that good! That is one other futuristic story that feels just like the outdated west. Esther stowed away on the librarian’s wagon to get away from an organized marriage after her greatest good friend and secret lover was hanged for being a part of the resistance. Little does Esther know, the librarians lead the resistance…they usually’re queer, like she needs she weren’t.

Bonus E book Like Crimson Useless Redemption

Southwest Foraging by John Slattery

In case your favourite a part of the sport is accumulating the crops and flowers, we’re kindred spirits. Name me. (Don’t name me, I solely use the phone to speak to my mom and my greatest good friend.) However for actual, I like the accumulating missions in these video games! And though the map is fictional, it’s undeniably based mostly on the American Southwest.

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