Strange Scaffold’s love letter to slow-motion combat and neo-noir storytelling has been enhanced and rebalanced for iOS
EL PASO, TEXAS – September 17, 2024 – Strange Scaffold and Frosty Pop are thrilled to announce that El Paso, Elsewhere is now available on iOS. The mobile version of the acclaimed third-person neo-noir shooter has been re-tuned for mobile, offering a wide array of quality-of-life tweaks while retaining the gritty atmosphere, satisfying action, and incredible hip-hop soundtrack that made it a breakout hit.
Somewhere in El Paso, Texas, a three-story motel gained another 46 stories… all below ground. El Paso, Elsewhere is a supernatural neo-noir third-person shooter with cinematic combat and a killer hip-hop soundtrack. Take on the role of battling folklore researcher James Savage as he takes on werewolves, fallen angels, and other damned creatures in a vivid slow-motion love letter to action classics. Fight your way through a reality-shifting motel, floor by bloody floor. Save the victims of Draculae, lord of the vampires. Destroy the villain you loved – even if it means dying yourself.
El Paso, Elsewhere‘s mobile edition includes a variety of control and gameplay options to accommodate touchscreen controls, as well as lighting and performance tweaks. Highlights include:
- Auto-aim
- Auto-shoot
- Auto-reload
- Auto recovery after a dive
- Auto-save hostages
- Auto-interact
- Auto-stake
- Auto-swap weapons
- Always start the game with full magazines.
- Double player HP.
- Double healing amount from pills.
- Double bullet amount from ammo boxes.
- Double enemy hitbox radius.
- Reduce enemy movement speed by 50%.
- Reduce slow-mo consumption rate by 40% (from 69 to 40)
First released in September 2023, Strange Scaffold’s third-person shooter was nominated for Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game at the 27th annual D.I.C.E. Awards and the Off-Broadway Award for Best Indie Game at the 13th annual New York Game Awards. It has a Very Positive status on Steam, based on more than 1,000 user reviews. The PlayStation 5 version will be released on September 20, 2024.
El Paso, Elsewhere is free to start on iOS, and the full game is available for $4.99.
About Strange Scaffold
Strange Scaffold is the development label of Xalavier Nelson Jr., known for his work as a leading developer on El Paso, Elsewhere, Clickolding, An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs, Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, Sunshine Shuffle, and dozens of other critically acclaimed projects.
About Frosty Pop
Frosty Pop has developed over 30 playful original video games for Netflix Games, Apple Arcade, Nintendo Switch, Steam, the App Store, and Google Play. The studio was founded in 2014 by Faisal Sethi in Vancouver, British Columbia, and has been fully remote and distributed since its inception.