Buggy Bandits
A free open-world Wild West crime game you play in your browser. Steal a horse. Rob the bank. Outrun the law.
Buggy Bandits is an open-world action game set in 1891 Arizona Territory. You ride into the boomtown of Dry Gulch with a bullwhip, two fists and $25. Sheriff Amos Pike runs the town, and saloon owner "Lucky" Della Quade wants it back. Everything with four legs or four wheels is yours for the taking: saddle horses, buggies, buckboards, stagecoaches, and the train.
Buggy Bandits was called Grand Theft Buggy until October 2026. It's the same game, with your saves and progress intact.
It is a third-person, over-the-shoulder sandbox in the spirit of the classic 2000s crime games, rebuilt for the frontier. It runs in any modern web browser on desktop or phone, with no download, and it's free.
What you can do
- Steal any ride on the street. Crack your bullwhip to pull a rider out of the saddle or a driver off his seat, then climb aboard.
- Rob banks, stagecoaches and trains. Ride alongside a moving train, leap onto the roof and fight Pinkerton agents car to car.
- Outrun a five-star wanted level. Deputies on foot, mounted posses, posse wagons, and finally Pinkerton riflemen on the rooftops.
- Play an 18-mission story across four chapters and four towns: Dry Gulch, the mining camp of Copper Bluff, the county seat of Sterling, and San Lázaro on the border.
- Take side jobs: hack fares, Pony Express races, bounties from the sheriff's wanted posters, and hidden strongboxes.
- Sit in at the tables: Texas hold'em poker and faro in the saloons, played for in-game money only.
- Walk in anywhere: saloons, banks, hotels, the gunsmith and the general store all have real interiors.
- Earn your guns and level up: work up from fists and a whip to a Bowie knife, a Colt revolver, a coach gun and a Winchester rifle. 25 levels and 12 skills in four trees.
The story
Chapter 1: Dry Gulch
Five jobs for Della Quade against Sheriff Pike: a whiskey-wagon heist, a mail race, a stagecoach escort, a bank job, and a showdown at the depot. Then a sixth, The Payroll Express, a train robbery.
Chapter 2: Copper Bluff
Up the mountain to help Moll Brennan of the Lucky Strike against Silas Thorne and the Copper Queen mining company's hired regulators.
Chapter 3: The County Seat
In Sterling, newspaper editor Hattie Ward takes on the company's crooked Judge Harlan Voss, and you keep her press running.
Chapter 4: The Agency
The Pinkerton Agency swears out a warrant for you. Ride south to San Lázaro, take the Rurales' rifles, hold the plaza at sundown, and settle it with Superintendent Cyrus Blackwood on a moving train.
Controls
Keyboard and mouse: W A S D to move or ride, mouse to look, right mouse to aim, left mouse to attack, Shift to sprint or crack the reins, Space to jump or brake, E to steal a horse or rig, R to reload, M for the map, K for skills.
Phone and tablet: turn the phone sideways. A floating move stick on the left, drag on the right to look, big Fire and Aim buttons with optional aim assist, and a hand button that does whatever the on-screen prompt offers.
Look and sound
The 3D graphics recall the PlayStation 2 era: low-poly characters, painted textures, distance fog and golden-hour light. The game has an original country soundtrack, including a sung gunfighter ballad, and fully voiced cutscenes. Every model and texture is generated in code, and it runs on three.js and WebGL.
Trailer
Watch the official teaser on YouTube, or see more clips on the Buggy Bandits YouTube channel.
Questions
- Is it free?
- Yes, the whole game is free, with no paywall and nothing to buy. If you enjoy it, you can buy the makers a coffee.
- Do I need to download anything?
- No. It runs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari, and saves your progress in the browser.
- Does it work on phones?
- Yes, in landscape, with touch controls built like the big mobile shooters. On Android you can add it to your home screen and it opens full screen.
- How long is it?
- 18 story missions in four chapters, plus free roam, side jobs and card games that carry on after the ending.
- Wasn't this called Grand Theft Buggy?
- Yes. It was renamed Buggy Bandits in October 2026. It's the same game, and your saves carry over.
- Who is it for?
- It is not rated by the ESRB and is intended for players 17 and over: it has violence and blood, alcohol, simulated gambling with play money, and optional mature themes. A year-of-birth question at the start keeps the mature themes off for anyone under 18.