Action · August 4, 2022

Hard West 2 (2022)

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Hard West 2 is a journey to the heart of darkness in the American West. Take control of a supernatural posse and catch the mysterious Ghost Train. Outsmart, outcheat and outgun your enemies in this turn-based tactics game set in a Wild West world where nothing is as it seems.

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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Turn-Based Strategy · 210
  • Western · 207
  • Turn-Based Tactics · 204
  • RPG · 194
  • Strategy · 186
  • Isometric · 167
  • Turn-Based · 166
  • Tactical RPG · 164
  • Tactical · 158
  • Turn-Based Combat · 149
  • Story Rich · 131
  • Singleplayer · 111
  • Supernatural · 110
  • Action · 87
  • Top-Down · 81

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume2.8k Steam reviewsTop 83% in Action
Positive rating82% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 64%
Metacritic77/100Genre average 77 — top 56% of Action titles
Engagement hours9 h averageTop 49% for session depth among Action

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (9)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Polish
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Simplified Chinese

Reception Metrics

Steam community

82%Mostly Positive · 2.8k reviews

2.3k positive · 501 negative

Metacritic

77/100 critic aggregate

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Curator recommendations

2.5k

Press Quotes

“Hard West 2 is a hardy, accomplished turn-based tactics game with several flashes of genius.” 8/10 – Gamespot “A superb tactics game” 8.5/10 – PC Gamer “Taking a slug of whiskey to heal yourself before bouncing a bullet off the liquor store sign into an enemy's back is a delightful synthesis of mechanics and theme, and when you combine that with a brain-tangling network of moves that leaves every enemy in sight sprawled in pools of viscous scarlet, boy howdy,…

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

9h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

9h

Typical completion time

Achievements

38

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateAug 4, 2022
DeveloperIce Code Games
PublisherGood Shepherd Entertainment
Base price$8.99 -70%
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · [email protected]

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Content Notes

- Contains gun violence in the form of human characters being frequently shot and the player must partake in these activities to progress. - Includes alcohol use - Includes bad language - Includes descriptions of violent events - Includes scenes which depict card games sometimes associated with gambling (such as a poker game). However the game does not support any…

Editions & Packages

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