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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 4,763 reviews of which 3,585 were positive and 1,178 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 less on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Hard West into these genres:

Western Turn-Based Strategy Strategy RPG Turn-Based Combat Adventure Turn-Based Tactical Indie Turn-Based Tactics Isometric Singleplayer Action Horror Atmospheric Gore Survival Kickstarter Open World Third Person

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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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Dec. 2025

If you’re looking for a strategy game that blends atmosphere, tactics, and storytelling into something genuinely memorable, Hard West is a fantastic pick. Set in a supernatural version of the American frontier, it weaves an engrossing tale full of moral choices, eerie twists, and gritty characters. The narrative feels refreshingly bold, pulling you into a world where every decision matters and every outcome has weight. On the gameplay side, Hard West offers a satisfying mix of turn-based combat, clever mechanics, and unpredictable encounters. Its battles reward thoughtful positioning and creative problem-solving, while its unique luck system adds tension and excitement to every exchange of gunfire. Between missions, resource management and story-driven events keep the pacing lively and immersive. If you enjoy tactical games with strong flavuor and a story that sinks its hooks in, Hard West is absolutely worth your time.

Oct. 2025

Are you familiar with XCOM? Hard West is a very similar game but with several twists that set it apart. There are 8 campaigns for you to play through and all of them intertwine with each other in one way or another. In each, you'll control up to a maximum of 4 characters in a turn based strategy gameplay loop very similar to XCOM. After each encounter, you'll have a section of click-and-text-adventure style of gameplay where you can progress the story, buy supplies for your next encounter, meet new potential characters to join your party and collect new playing cards. Playing cards? Yes! Unlike XCOM, where each character levels up according to their battle experience, the characters in your party do not level up. Instead, as you progress through a campaign, you'll unlock playing cards that you can equip. Each playing card is unique and can either give an active and/or passive boosts. You can equip a maximum of 5 playing cards to each character and they also have the potential of giving you an extra passive bonus if the equiped combination of cards matches a poker set (high card, pair, 3 of a kind, straight, etc). The setting is Old Western based with cowboys and all those things you'd expect in such a setting BUT also with demons and other occult things which can hinder or help you, depending on the campaign you play and choices you make. Visuals wise, it's nothing mesmerizing but it does the job. Most characters have unique models and that helps with immersion. I would like to have the option to zoom in and out but it's a minor complaint of mine. I think the soundtrack really suited each environment and added to the immersion of being in some wild west with a spooky vibe at times. Only one character is voiced, apart from the grunts when somebody gets shot. This character is like a narrator of sorts that may or may not at some point speak to one of the protagonists. I really liked their performance. Difficulty wise, you can choose from 3 presets (Easy, Normal and Hard) plus Ironman mode and several difficulty modifiers. This adds replayability value aside from the different choices you can make throughout each campaign. Some events are impossible to avoid as they need to happen in order for other campaigns to take place. Quick tip: if you want to use quick saves, these must be enabled via game options first!!! Regarding the gameplay modifiers, some will make the game tougher and others more accessible. It's great to customize the challenge to your liking. I enabled combat injuries but disabled the reaction shots. Unlike XCOM, only the enemies can perform reaction shots, which IMO leaves you at a massive disadvantage. I played through all the campaigns on the normal difficulty and while the game is challenging, after a while it becomes second nature to kind of predict what the AI will do. Often they'll retreat rather than hit you at point blank. However, this will only happen if the AI feels somewhat surrounded or at a disadvantage. I only encountered one bug where after an encounter, the game didn't load my next objective in the map-story-text-adventure-click-based-section but saving and quiting to the main menu and loading the save again fixed it immediately. All in all, super fun game.

June 2025

Took me a few attempts of a few years to get into it and finally finish it, but I'm glad I took the time to do so now during my downtime. The turn-based strategy is nice, but not the best I've experienced. It was the overall aesthetics and weird west genre that made me want to even consider it in the first place. Quite frankly I think the world needs far more weird west, and the darker the better. I found the horror aspects in this game to be pretty weak, but that's ok. Not everyone is as desensitised to things as I am. Not gonna lie, I used a walkthrough for this game for the overland map stuff, but not for the turn-based combat portion of the game. Don't even remember when I bought this, but it was most likely during a sale or as part of some bundle somewhere many years ago.

March 2025

Good game with some interesting systems, like turn based gunplay with no random dice rolls. Nice atmosphere too, very grimdark.

Feb. 2025

Cowboy Xcom with the devil showing up every so often isn't the most fair way to explain this game; but its close. This game makes you question your tactical prowess every turn.

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Hard West is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

Hard West is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.

Hard West received 3,585 positive votes out of a total of 4,763 achieving a rating of 7.33.

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Hard West was developed by CreativeForge Games and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment.

Hard West is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Hard West is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Hard West is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Hard West is a single-player game.

There are 3 DLCs available for Hard West. Explore additional content available for Hard West on Steam.

Hard West does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Hard West does not support Steam Remote Play.

Hard West is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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