Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Unlock instant access to exclusive member features. Get full access to premium articles, exclusive features and a growing list of member rewards. One of the biggest surprises of Steam's most recent Next Fest was Far Far West, a robot wizard cowboy co-op FPS with some yeehaw-worthy gunslinging and spellcasting that earned it a place among the event's top five most-played demos. Far Far West is now days away from its early access launch after its demo earned an Overwhelmingly Positive rating from over 6,000 reviews by Next Fest's end. According to Nicolas Meyssonnier, studio head of Far Far West developer Evil Raptor, those numbers were "way, way above" what the France-based, eight-person indie studio expected. In an interview with PC Gamer, Meyssonier said Evil Raptor's previous work developing "very niche" 3D platformers had left it totally unprepared for the massive Next Fest response. "We don't expect a lot of people and everything is way above what we could ever imagine," Meyssonnier said. "I'm not used to that much positive feedback, and we had to organize around all that—find ways to receive all the feedback and bug reports. That's a lot of organization work for us. Everything is new for us." According to Meyssonier, the studio decided to pivot to a co-op FPS the same way he decided to make his first game, Pumpkin Jack. A fan of 3D platformers like Jak and Daxter, Meysonnier said he struggled to find a game that'd scratch that itch on PC, so he decided to make his own. "I just typed on Google 'how to make games,'" Meysonnier said. "That took quite long, but yeah."