Hard West
Skip · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 35, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 12.1h
- Value
- $1.65/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Radeon HD 4670 (512 MB) / GeForce GT 430 (1024 MB), 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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
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
August 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. It has been discounted 89 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 40 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Hard West 2 ($29.99, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats Blackguards ($9.99, scores 11).
This site sampled 773 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 439 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
12.1 hours to finish it, 31 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
54% start to 1% 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
6 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 11:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Buy on discount/ 10 There is a lot to love about the idea of the game, but its cut pretty short and the combat feels like replaying the same equation rather than adapting. Good start, just needs a bit more to be a great game
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.
Game *Was* amazing, but now it's unplayable due to a bug. Often when a character moves to a position, they'll walk back and forth to find the right spot. Normally just a small delay, but if it goes just wrong, the character will flicker back and forth and will never settle. Currently the only way to get out of it is to restart and lose all progress.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Hard West scores 35/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/307670/hard-westReviews 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 21, price as of Oct 1.
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