A demo for El Paso, Elsewhere 2 is now available for PC via Steam as part of Steam Next Fest: October 2026 Edition, publisher Frosty Pop and developer Strange Scaffold announced.
“We looked back to the PS2 not just for inspiration, but for methodology,” said Strange Scaffold studio head Xalavier Nelson Jr. in a press release. “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 [El Paso, Elsewhere], 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.”
Here is an overview of the game, via Strange Scaffold:
About
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 more than 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 original soundtrack by Chicago-based music producer kalibration.
El Paso, Elsewhere 2 is due out for Xbox Series and PC via Steam in 2027.
Watch a new trailer below.