Hard West 2

[b]Hard West 2 delivers a stylish, fast-paced tactical strategy experience that puts a supernatural spin on the Wild West. The game drops you into a grim frontier filled with outlaws, occult forces, train robberies, and shootouts, creating an atmosphere that feels distinct from the usual XCOM-style tactical setting. Its dusty environments, dark supernatural themes, and memorable cast give the campaign a strong identity and make each mission feel like part of a strange western adventure. Combat takes a particularly aggressive approach to the tactical formula thanks to the Bravado system. Rather than encouraging slow, defensive play, Bravado rewards you for chaining kills and keeping the momentum going, effectively pushing you to alpha strike enemies as hard as possible. When everything clicks, a turn can turn into a spectacular sequence of kills, movement, and ability usage, making combat feel fast, aggressive, and incredibly satisfying. It creates a very different rhythm from more traditional cover-based tactics and gives you a constant incentive to look for ways to wipe out multiple enemies in a single turn. The varied cast is another major strength. Each companion brings their …

This is an amazing turn-based game! It has a western cowboy theme with elements of arcane magic and poker cards game mechanics. It has almost an infinite replayability, thanks to the various skills and traits of the protagonist's posse members (a.k.a. his gang). Let me explain. You are Gin Carter, the protagonist. He robbed banks, killed many, you know the typical bad guy. One day, with his current gang, they tried to rob a train which belongs to the devil. He lost the fight and his soul. So, your objective is to get back your soul and kill the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Along the way, you recruited new members, each with very unique skills and traits. The traits of each member (including you) will only be ACTIVE if each has the correct Poker Cards combination in Hand. The lowest combi is 'a Pair' while the highest combi is '5 of a Kind' (4 plus Joker). You will face two obstacles with this. Firstly, you don't get all the cards initially. You only get a card after certain mission or quest. Secondly, only 4 active members can participate in a fight mission (may or may not include you). The pool of cards that you have are SHARED among these 4 members. So obviously, the first few mission…

I had fun with this game. I think turn-based tactics players would enjoy it. The Deck of Haunts is very cool concept. I wish I could buy a physical version of the deck to play with (with 2-8 cards included). For my gripes, I would say I wish you could get all party members to "friend" status in the same run without having to reload a save or begin a new game to clear all the achievements. In addition, I wish that Lady Shrike was an obtainable party member. From the story, it feels like she should be. Also, it really feels like using Flynn or Bill to provoke Edward Cullings is the "correct play" as choosing these companion/ally dialog options is superior for the entire rest of the game. However, provoking him yourself and LOSING MONEY is the ONLY way to get the Black Joker card in the game, which isn't obvious from the dialog options. Not only is this a fantastic card, but it's one that is needed for the 'collecting all cards' achievement. Finally, I wish the combat percentage checks were calculated in real-time. The game clearly uses some sort of predetermined system, as in subsequent loads you can constantly hit the same 1% or miss the same 99% on reloading supposing you fol…

good up until the final mission were the camara was bugged to hell

Interesting mechanics and very competently made. Unfortunately one of the side missions glitched during chapter 1, which was kind of off-putting. This is more of a puzzle game than a tactical game imo. I'd recommend it on sale.

This isn't a tactical RPG; it's just a puzzle game. It's not terrible, but it's definitely not what I wanted. I also didn't like the Bravado mechanic at all.