From Press Release:
El Paso, TX – October 15, 2026 – Developer Strange Scaffold (I Am Your Beast, CLICKOLDING, Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator) and publisher Frosty Pop today released a new trailer and the first playable demo for El Paso, Elsewhere 2.
El Paso, Elsewhere 2 is the long-awaited sequel to the award-winning, 2023 neo-noir shooter. It’s a third-person shooter where players battle through 20+ handcrafted levels filled with sinister gargoyles, possessed animatronics, and gun-toting vampires. Like the first game, El Paso, Elsewhere 2 has fast-paced combat combined with brooding, introspective storytelling in otherworldly environments.
Following the events of El Paso, Elsewhere, this sequel puts players back in control of protagonist James Savage as he journeys across the United States slaying monsters and sealing away insidious supernatural forces. Betrayed by a close friend, James is dragged into the Void itself to repay a terrible debt to an eldritch horror. He once killed the monster he loved to save the world. Now, he must save his betrayer to save himself.
This demo features a single level from early in the campaign, as a fairytale forest quickly reveals that there’s more to its swampy groves than initially meets the eye. Players will wield new weapons to the series including an M16 and automatic shotgun, and face opponents ranging from cackling witches, to stone gargoyles, to gun-toting vampire mafiosos, in a sampler of the variety that will appear in the final game.
Key Features:
- Use vampiric abilities to dive off of thin air, backflip off of enemies, and feed on the blood that erupts from your opponents when you stake them.
- Take your fight to reality-defying nightclubs, multi-dimensional libraries, eerie suburbia, and more lairs of eldritch horrors, in 20+ action-packed levels.
- Wield 15 weapons ranging from Western revolvers, to automatic shotguns, to a tommy gun that fires vampire-killing stakes.
- Confront Frankenstein, goblin shamans, biblically-accurate angels, and a horde of supernatural enemies both new and old to the series.
- Fully-voiced cutscenes deliver a new neo-noir tale of supernatural grief and recovery, from the award-winning team behind I Am Your Beast and Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator.
- Original hip-hop horror rap album produced by RJ Lake (I Am Your Beast, UNBEATABLE, El Paso, Elsewhere).
- Multi-genre pulse-pounding instrumental OST by Chicago-based music producer kalibration.
“We looked back to the PS2 not just for inspiration, but for methodology,” says Strange Scaffold studio head Xalavier Nelson Jr. “Just like the games we grew up loving, we’re directly using the foundation and assets of the original project to drive a quantum leap in gameplay. Combat is faster, more brutal, and more nimble, and takes place in exponentially more detailed environments. While I remain extremely proud of EPE1, the difference between a level in the original game, and what we’re doing in the sequel, is night and day, and I’m so excited for folks to finally experience a small part of that first-hand.”
El Paso, Elsewhere 2 launches on PC via Steam and on Xbox Series X|S next year. The demo is available now on Steam for PC. For more information, follow Strange Scaffold on Bluesky.
About Strange Scaffold
Strange Scaffold is the development label of Xalavier Nelson Jr., known for his work as a leading developer on CLICKOLDING, El Paso, Elsewhere, I Am Your Beast, Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator, Truck-kun Is Supporting Me From Another World?!, and dozens of other critically acclaimed projects. For more information on Strange Scaffold, visit strangescaffold.com.
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