a landmark game and that alone is a reason to play it

It’s a really pretty game that gives you a small taste of what it must’ve been like to be a roaming varmint in the early days of the US.

The missions feel very much on rails IMO. Several have just felt to me like a shooting gallery at a funfair.

I admittedly haven’t got very far - maybe 25% - and what put me off a bit was how the game handles a bounty on your head. Bounty hunters seem to spawn randomly near you, and have supernatural abilities to home in on you. I tried sneaking up on them to pick them off one by one, but that just triggers more and more to spawn in. It really seemed like the GTA “Wanted” mechanic with increasing stars, and it kinda killed the immersion for me.

turnstile

Haven’t heard of it before, looks to be made by Cloudflare. Cloudflare don’t seem to be a totally awful company, but that’s always just one CEO-change away.

Their web site sounds promising, saying “Turnstile can generate multiple types of non-intrusive challenges to verify users are human, all without showing visitors a puzzle.” and “Unlike CAPTCHA options, Turnstile never harvests data for ad retargeting.”

So how do they make money from this?