Hard West 2
Fair · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 16.8h
- Value
- $1.79/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750/Radeon RX 550, 35 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in February 2026. It has been discounted 33 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark ($29.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Rogue Waters ($7.49, scores 33).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 184 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
44% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
18 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 00:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is a lot X-Com. Yet totally different. And in a good way. You fill like you are living through a Ghost story of the wild west. Each level is a puzzle to crack to get all the side missions done along with the main mission. The story is pretty engaging and the snide remarks are awesome. The first and second Hard West worth playing and beating. Solid 9 out of 10
This game surprised me by getting better as it went. It starts off simple, but once you unlock more upgrades and gear, it starts allowing you to pull off more ambitious plans and combos, which in turn becomes more and more satisfying. It's not XCOM 2, but few games are. And this was a fun, worthy way to scratch the same itch.
One of the times I've most wished Steam had a neutral option for reviews. Hard West 2 isn't a bad game necessarily; everything it does works fine and is decently enjoyable. Had this been my introduction to the series I'd absolute have loved it. But compared to the first game, it's just boring. The original Hard West is sometimes viewed as overly difficult and punishing, but I love it, jank and all. Every level felt...
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Cite this score
Hard West 2 scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1282410/hard-west-2Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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