

At first glance, these stories have nothing in common, but one of Hard West's great treats is watching these seemingly unrelated plot threads come together for a final, climactic gunfight. Other scenarios follow a Thomas Edison sort who comes to the frontier to investigate a curiously contagious kind of insanity that spreads like a virus, a corrupt man of the church who passes himself off as a man of God while secretly doing the Devil's work, an adventurous young gunslinger who sets to find an ancient city of gold in the vein of El Dorado, and so on. Enough gold, perhaps, to escape their dead end lives and the bloodthirsty gang of bandits returning to the region after years of peace when word gets out that there's gold in the hills. The game is split into eight scenarios (nine if you buy the extra DLC campaign or get the complete console edition, like I did), starting with the story of a father-son duo eking out a meager existence on a struggling farm before they find gold in the region. Hard West trades in the world-defending, sci-fi aesthetic of XCOM for smaller, more intimate stories about the outlaws and do-gooders on the rugged frontier of the Wild West before something supernatural stumbles into their lives. Oh, sure, it's another grid-based, bullet-flinging strategy game. You already have a pretty good idea of what's going on here, but I think I may have played the XCOM card a little too early. The old /r/patientgamers Essential Games List Please use flair to display what games you’re currently playing, not a punch line, username, tag, URL, or signature. New, mobile-friendly spoilers can be posted using the following formatting: Want to play online in a dead gaming community? We expect you to know these rules before making a post. Please click here to see our current rules. We no longer maintain our posting rules in Old Reddit. Join our Discord Join our Steam Group Follow us on Twitter Posting Rules Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.
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