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Hard West 2 cover art

Hard West 2

Ice Code Games · Good Shepherd Entertainment · 2022-08-04

SteamGOG

ActionRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 04, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), TBD (PlayStation 5), TBD (Xbox Series X|S)

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.

17
playing now
82%
positive of 3.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
88/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

17 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Hard West 2 is a 2022 tactical role-playing game developed by Ice Code Games and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment for Windows. It is the sequel to Hard West.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 17 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 173 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~22/week).
  • · Review velocity up 15% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,078 reviews).
  • · Top 20% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 64k–144k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,211 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$7.45-75%
GOG$7.49-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $5.99 at Steam (2026-02-05) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 82 of 117 observed days · $1.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
77477420222026Week of 2022-08-01: 774 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 304 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3932026-08-07 00:00 — 12 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 15 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 22 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 13 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 12 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 33 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 21 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 30 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 20 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 12 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 17 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 8 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 12 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 17 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 14 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 26 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 19 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 11 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 28 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 16 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 12 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 39 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 20 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 11 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 19 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 21 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 17 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$99.99$5.992022-07-012026-08-302022-07-01 — best price $99.992022-09-08 — best price $29.992022-10-31 — best price $29.992022-12-19 — best price $23.822023-02-19 — best price $14.992023-04-01 — best price $29.992023-05-23 — best price $13.472023-07-16 — best price $29.992023-08-30 — best price $15.002023-11-17 — best price $29.992024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-02-14 — best price $29.992024-03-17 — best price $13.502024-04-16 — best price $11.992024-05-21 — best price $29.992024-07-04 — best price $29.992024-08-05 — best price $8.392024-09-18 — best price $29.992024-10-28 — best price $8.612024-11-30 — best price $12.002025-01-13 — best price $22.042025-03-01 — best price $29.992025-04-29 — best price $29.992025-06-27 — best price $8.992025-08-26 — best price $8.992025-10-16 — best price $29.992025-12-08 — best price $22.492026-01-30 — best price $29.992026-03-14 — best price $22.042026-04-24 — best price $29.992026-06-04 — best price $8.992026-08-13 — best price $7.492026-08-30 — best price $7.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

38
achievements tracked
43.8%
earned "Is That All You've Got?"
10.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,5963%38
Steam (Steam)12919%4

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGActionWesternStrategyTacticalTop-DownIsometricStory RichTurn-BasedSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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