8 Ways Westworld Is Basically A Video Game

Glitches play a significant part in the video game world, both by preventing a player from progressing or providing entertainment in the form of a happy accident. In fact, they play into almost every Westworld episode, as well as the overarching story.

One glitch came when a group of men are stuck chopping wood because the character who is assigned to do it has gone missing. This kind of error is common in video games and more often than not happens in RPGs. A player may return to an area and require a NPC (non-player character) to progress their quest. This missing host would then proceed to bash their own head in with rock, something less in line with video game norms.

In a similar vein to game developers, when these problems are discovered the park, staff rollback software updates, apply patches or even revert to several builds ago to address the problems.

Glitches seem likely to only become more frequent as Westworld progresses with prominent characters like Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Maeve (Thandie Newton) often experiencing them. Unlike in video games where you can just ignore them or load an old save, the consequences could potentially be much worse.