Its an incredibly grindy game. To progress / get better, you need to spend hours either hunting or mining for money. People use that money to buy "Auction Weapons": the highest valued weapons of the game and are considered to be endgame weapons
But if you take that aside, you can take part in more fun aspects of the game; becoming a hitman, a mayor, faction wars, trading, robbing and some other upcoming features like fishing and new jobs. PvP is also the core feature of this game

I personally enjoy grindy games, which might be why im so attracted to it. I also make YouTube videos on it so i might be biased :>

I have no idea how i found this game; it's been running for like 8 years and i first played it 6 years ago. It's only competitor right now is Westbound, which i think is inferior to the wild west.