Hard West
CreativeForge Games · 2015 · Western, Turn-Based Strategy, Strategy, RPG, Turn-Based Combat
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About Hard West
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Hunt down those who wronged you through a supernatural Wild West filled with demons and dark pacts in this narrative-driven turn-based tactical shooter. Master dynamic cover systems, ricochets, shadow spotting, and collectable ability cards across 40 unique combat missions while making fateful choices that reshape your squad's destiny across multiple endings.
Welcome to the Wild West like you’ve never seen it before. 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. Follow Warren on his descent into the darkest recesses of the human soul, and try to survive in a world full of hard choices and even harder consequences. Because in this world, death is a constant presence and the black pacts which you make with forces beyond human comprehension will forever haunt all those around you.
Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions. Journey deeper into the world of Hard West and meet a colorful cast of playable characters whose fates are intimately intertwined with yours. Together you will need to make divisive choices to uncover the ultimate plans of the ancient powers at play, as you unravel a deep narrative storyline featuring multiple endings depending on the choices you make during the game.
Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions. Journey deeper into the world of Hard West and meet a colorful cast of playable characters whose fates are intimately intertwined with yours. Together you will need to make divisive choices to uncover the ultimate plans of the ancient powers at play, as you unravel a deep narrative storyline featuring multiple endings depending on the choices you make during the game.
Game Features
- A Unique “Weird” West World: Explore a world where Western legends meet demons, arcane rituals and satanic cults and where the dead can walk the Earth again. For a price.
- Compelling Turn-based Combat: Control 1-4 squad members in thrilling turn-based combat encounters and master a range of powerful western-inspired special abilities, from feats of gunslinging to survivability against all odds, to take out your opponents in a series of original tactical maps with unique story-based objectives.
- Collect and Combine Special Abilities: Obtain new special abilities by collecting and equipping unique cards which are earned throughout the game by completing main- and optional objectives, exploration , bartering, treasure hunting and more. These cards can be combined to create even more powerful combos, and provide additional options in combat.
- Choice and Fate: Experience a deep story where decisions made during and between combat scenarios will resonate through future events and change the ultimate fates of a divisive group of colorful characters
- Luck of the Draw: Use a combat system that goes far beyond pure probability by featuring luck as a unique guardian of engaging and challenging combat
- Dynamic Cover: Change the flow of combat thanks to an extensive cover system which allows for the creation of effective cover from objects in the environment, making flanking and maneuvering during battles a truly powerful tactic
- Shadow Spotting: Exploit the Blazing western sun to Locate out of sight enemies by the shadows that they cast, along with the sounds they make
- Ricochets: Utilize Metal objects to allow master gunslingers to shoot beyond the line of sight for increased tactical combat options, and diversified planning
- 40 Historically Inspired Weapons: Equip and employ an eclectic collection of deadly shotguns, rifles, pistols and sniper rifles, all based upon real outlandish prototypes, designs and ideas from the era
DLC & expansions
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Base game + 2 of 3 DLC at today's best prices (some DLC unpriced).
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
It is a really fun game with good turn-based tactical combat. I mostly enjoy the narrative though, and some twists and turns that I did not expect. The ability to adjust the challenge to what you'd like is also appreciated. Some mechanics are not well explained, but the curious can google those.3 found this helpful
Overall, a really enjoyable turn-based shooter. The story was good. However, the RNG of shooting can be a source of frustration. Sometimes the save system was annoying. It automatically saves when you start a new mission and after you choose a load out. You don't find out your objectives until after you start so if your load out is terrible, you need to reload an old save.
Solid tactics game set in a supernatural-infused wild west. It's relatively light on the RPG elements, since you don't really get to do much exploring, there's no character creation, and you don't level up based on XP or anything like that. There is a story that advances as you win battles but it's tied to little vignettes that unfold as you visit locations, but those locations aren't open for exploration and you just get a text box with some dialogue options when appropriate. In that sense, it reminded me of Expeditions: Conquistador. The actual combat is pretty much what you'd expect from a tactics game set in the Old West with some supernatural stuff thrown in. Cover, stealth, some special moves that are based on gunslinging skills and/or supernatural elements instead of psionics or superpowers like in most similar games, and so on. Combat scenarios are sometimes built a bit like a puzzle because even in Story Mode you can easily fail by getting killed if you rush into battle with no regard for safety, since often the victory conditions involve some or all of your companions not dying, and sometimes you have companions that are kind of weak and can't take more than a couple …
The second game is MUCH better and a whole lot more refined.
This is a good game other than a very frequent game breaking bug that constantly makes you reset every combat encounter. Edit: There are multiple different game-breaking glitches.
A bit janky, but good.
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