This is a pulp-horror game set in the 1920s. It starts at a wedding, where the player characters are members of the Continental Detective Agency tasked with ensuring that the proceedings aren't disrupted by thieves after the gifts, or bootleggers upset that they weren't tapped to provide the necessaries, or that kind of thing. Cards on the table - obviously something occurs which needs a heroic bunch to wade in and solve problems. This game won't be in a Cthulhu-adjacent horror space, but there will be some combination of cultists, demons, zombies, and gangsters between the happy couple and their happy ending.

Outgunned is a pretty fast-paced game engine with a minimum of fussy rules to get in the way of the story. In the story design I've aimed to keep the options open for the players once the story kicks off, but there is a kind of logical end-point aka victory condition that means it's not a truly free-form experience.

In the summer of 1877, a trio of gruesome murders are committed in the mining town of Hell's Peak, Colorado. The locals are blaming a strange pioneer caravan that passed through the town, but your players may discover that more sinister things are afoot...
Saddle up! Get yourself a posse together and have a look-see what’s over that hill. There’s strange rumors coming in from the whisperin’ desert. You’d best put a round in that iron and make haste!
Down Darker Trails is a setting for Call of Cthulhu—the American West of the late 19th century. The era of gold rushes, outlaws and lawmen.
Start the weekend with a bang!
Down these dark trails the taint of the Cthulhu Mythos stirs, ready to lure the unwary and tempt the power hungry with whispered secrets of cosmic knowledge. This is a West of hidden worlds, lost treasures and cities, dubious deals and unsavory alliances. A land filled with beauty, mystery, terror and wild adventure!

Pregenerated characters provided.
Strong content warning - violence, gore, horror, cowboy accents.

If you climb in the saddle, be ready for the ride.