Hard West on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions
Hard West is a western, turn-based strategy and strategy game
developed by CreativeForge Games
and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment.
Released on November 18th 2015 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 5 languages: English, French, German, Polish and Russian.
It has received 4,735 reviews of which 3,568 were positive and 1,167 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.49€ on Instant Gaming.
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System requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista/7/8/10
- Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 2.6 GHz / Intel Core 2 Quad 2.6 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon HD 4670 (512 MB) / GeForce GT 430 (1024 MB)
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 6 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: OSX 10.9.6, 10.10, 10.11
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M (2.5 GHZ)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon HD 6630M (256 MB)
- Storage: 6 GB available space
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Xcomlike in the old west with monsters and other spooky shenanigans. The DLC campaign even has a monster building from component parts you find which is pretty rad. It's quite solid entry in the genre with its own relatively unique setting and it goes for a pair of bucks on sales so... I recommend it if you like what you read so far.
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I am STUNNED at all the negative reviews. I'm not talking about people who might have experienced game breaking bugs, which I haven't personally. In fact, I haven't encountered a single noticeable bug! But reading many of them referring to this game constantly as "XCOM clone" just proves how ignorant these people are, and of what mindset they come to write a negative review for a game that does not deserve it! Hard West stands on its on solid feet as an immersive exciting turn-based game. In my view, especially with the edition of the Scars of Freedom DLC, Hard West is a masterpiece! And it is very enjoyable!
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Summary: A pretty solid tactics game with a very interesting way of handling RNG. Don't be fooled by the hit chances, you can always know when you are going to get hit in this game. Had some serious stuttering and lag all the time, probably a memory or engine leak in this game. A little buggy. Story is okay, setting is cool. Music is excellent. I would only get this on sale, and luckily it goes on sale pretty cheap. If you are a tactics lover, you should get it regardless. The luck system is a very interesting way of handling hit chance in this game. Basically, you have a luck stat, let's say it's 100. Every time you shoot at someone - or someone shoots at you - their hit chance is reduced from your luck stat, and they miss. If their hit chance is HIGHER than the luck you have left, the attack with always hit, regardless of what the hit chance of the shot actually says. That means that the hit chance is kind of like a lie, or at least it can be very misleading and weird to get used to at first. This also means that the game basically boils down to Luck Stat management ENTIRELY. This is both good and bad. One, it makes the game have very little actual RNG. The bad is that once you figure this out, the game is kind of just that over and over again. It has a very common scenario I want to mention too, which I call the Luck Loop. This is tied to the level design. The levels are usually somewhat small and consist of LOTS of very enclosed, small spaces. Enemies get an opportunity shot on you for free if you get too close (with 100% hit chance so I don't think it ever misses). Because of this, there are lots of areas in the game where there's not really any good way to flank, and what this ends up is that you keep shooting really low hit chance shots at each other over and over until their luck is low, and then you hit them for like... 1 damage because they're in full cover. This can really be a grind sometimes but it's also the safest way to play. Another big downside is the lack of Fog of War. The reason this is a downside is because you can't really tell when an enemy is out of sight or not. A lot of levels you will have a guy run in from what seems really close, but your units have a low Sight stat so they didn't see. This can feel really unfair because there's no line or anything to show you just how far your guys can see. I played the game on Hard and a lot of enemies flanking you will just kill you in a single shot. This is instant game over most of the time and you have to restart the level from the beginning. This is also a game that has a lot of "stealth" setup stages before missions start and it's just laughable. Enemies will have a vision cone of like 5 feet and you just put yourself in these silly scenarios where it doesn't feel like sneaking at all. It's also a bit annoying because you only have ONE action in Setup Stage. So it takes forever, and then if you happen to die, get ready to repeat all of it again. The difficulty is actually not that bad except for a couple missions which are just BRUTAL. The last bad thing I want to mention is the performance. I dunno what it is, my machine is top-end, but as I play the game, the more and more it starts to chug. I think it has a memory leak. Sometimes you press "I" to bring up the character inventory and it just freezes for like 5 seconds. Then in fights sometimes everyone shoots the game freezes. I would stutter even on the overworld all the time. It gets really really bad, but I can't tell if it's like that for everyone. But it's something to consider if you buy the game. Anyway, the story is okay, and I like the story tying into the re-use of certain levels, it made it feel less cheap. The music was excellent and has a great mix of horror/western vibes to it. The graphics are pretty good, and I think the shots and sounds make it feel really good, which a lot of tactics games miss. The scenario layout itself is a little strange, since you keep "restarting" from scratch with new people, even though a couple items will carry over to shops.
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☐ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☑ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
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Interesting story line that slowly brings various threads together as you progress. Fun turn based combat with a creative use of "luck" as a combat resource. Has a very strong "Deadlands TTRPG" feel to it, which I loved.
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Developer
CreativeForge Games
Publisher
Good Shepherd Entertainment
Release
18 Nov 2015
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