Gunman Clive

Gunman Clive, released in Japan as Gunman Story, is a platform game developed and published by Swedish development studio Hörberg Productions. It was first released for Android on 2 April 2012. The game follows Clive, a lone gunslinger in a futuristic Wild West, as he tries to save the mayor’s daughter from a group of technologically well-armed bandits. In 2015, a sequel, Gunman Clive 2, was released, in which Clive must save the world from the group of bandits from the previous game. Gunman Clive is a side-scrolling platform game.

The game is set in the year 18XX. The player controls the character Gunman Clive or Ms. Johnson as they fight enemies across 20 levels to rescue the mayor’s daughter. The player has to traverse a 2D world filled with moving platforms, traps and enemies. The player can pick up power-ups such as a spread shot, explosive bullets, and a laser gun. Enemies vary from bandits who carry rifles and dynamite to animals such as pelicans and wolves. Bosses appear in every fifth level. All the player characters have life meters. The 2D graphics are in the style of sketches, making the game resemble an interactive flip book. 

Gunman Clive’s soundtrack pays tribute to the Western genre of video games. The differences between Gunman Clive and Ms. Johnson are that Ms. Johnson is slower, freezes in place while shooting, and has a skirt that can slow down descent. A third playable character, a duck, is unlocked after completion of the game. Gunman Clive has three difficulty settings, which differ in how much damage the player character takes with each hit and where the player character respawns after death.