Dry Gulch is an idle game about an outlaw gang in the Wild West. It is free to play, it has no ads, and your gang keeps working while the game is closed.

You lead the Dry Gulch Boys. Put a finger on a stagecoach, a freight wagon, a rider or a strongbox and hold it until it is worked out; your gang does the same on its own. The take is scrip at first, then silver, gold, deeds, railroad shares and worse, down a ladder of routes that runs from the Lowlands through the Foothills, a Ghost Town and the Badlands to the Capital.

WORK THE ROAD
Hold a target to take it. Throw dynamite or lay a powder trail to hit every target at once. Fill the haul meter and open the stashes it banks for items: black coffee, fresh horses, a wanted poster, a nitro flask.

TURN LOOT INTO POWER
Launder each kind of loot into its own paper — greenbacks, trade dollars, gold certificates — and spend it on your Six-guns, the spine of the Gear that lets you take tougher roads. Fence the rest for stake and buy your gang its tracks: firepower, rate of fire, horses, buckshot, fanning. Up to three gangs, each in an outfit with a trade of its own, paid from the pot when you want them working harder.

RIDE ON A JOB
When your guns can beat the guards, a job opens: the lone coach, the guarded coach, the mine payroll, the midnight train. Just you, against the clock, before the law arrives — a sheriff at first, a posse later, Pinkertons and the army further on. Clear it and your wanted level can climb higher.

RIDE OUT
When the county gets too hot, ride out. The Gear, the loot and the county stay behind; your reputation, your charms, your gang's points and every route you opened ride on with you to the next county. Spend reputation on the permanent tracks and on charms, twenty-four of them, each doing one thing well.

WHILE YOU ARE AWAY
The gang works for hours without you. Come back to a report of what it took, which routes it cleared and what it found on the way.

QUESTIONS PLAYERS ASK
Does it have ads? No, and it never will.
Is it free? Yes. Purchases are optional and nothing you need to finish the game.
Does it need an account? No. Your save stays on your phone.
Is it hard to learn? A short tutorial shows the first steps, a set of errands the next ones, and a How to play page under Settings covers the rest.
Is it an incremental game? Yes: numbers grow, the gang grows, and riding out starts a county over with more than you had.

MADE TO BE PLAYED, NOT WATCHED
Pixel art drawn for the game, one art pixel to one pixel of the road, and an original western soundtrack.

Dry Gulch is in active development. Tell us what you find: https://discord.gg/Jcm5jb888B

Privacy policy: https://mickgian.github.io/far-west/privacy.html