Blood Stained: Retribution

Blood Stained: Retribution is an open world, western action-adventure video game developed by Axcero and published by AlphaPrime. It was released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles in February 2018. The game, set in Australia during the end of the second industrial revolution and the Frontier Wars in 1908, follows Nate Croshaw, a gunslinger framed for a crime he didn`t commit and became hunted by the law. With no other option, Nate is forced to find the man that framed him and prove his innocence.
Blood Stained: Retribution is played from a third-person perspective in an open world environment, allowing the player to interact with the game world at their pleasure. The player can travel the land, a fictionalized version of the Australian outback, primarily traversed by horseback, foot and early motorized machinery. An online multiplayer mode is included with the game, allowing up to 24 players to engage in both co-operative and competitive gameplay in a recreation of the single-player setting.
==Synopsis==
===Setting===
Blood Stained: Retribution is set in Australia, 1908 towards the end of the diminishing of the second industrial revolution and during the frontier wars; the conflict between English settlers and the native inhabitants. The game takes place on the Australian outback, a reminiscence of the American Frontier. The map is split into three different regions; the two fictional states of New Melbourne and Queensland, and the neighboring Eastern part of the Territory of Tasmania, Capernick Valley
==Single Player==
The story follows Nate Croshaw, an American who fled from Arizona to southern Australia for unknown reasons. Shortly, he is framed for slaughtering an entire town single handedly by Allister Vox and his gang. Getting captured, hung, but managing to escape, Nate Crowshaw is forced to hunt down the man that framed him in order to prove his innocence, all the while being hunted as a criminal from the law.
==Trivia==
*There is an implied connection between the game and Axcero Interactive's previous title, Among the Dead. In the side quest Tales of an old Sailor, Nate is tasked with gathering materials in order to fund an old sea captain to complete his dreams of sailing the seas once more. In the final cutscene, the man reveals that his name Carter Opton and tells Nate that if he finds any land worth claiming, he'll name it after him.
**This references the biggest and only city in Among the Dead, Croshaw City located in the Opton Isles. The connection implies that the Sea Captain later founded the land during his journey and kept his promise by naming the main settlement after Nate.
*Capernick Valley is referred as Isolia Valley to he native inhabitants.