Hard West 2

Hard West
Hard West	2015
Hard West 2	2022

Hard West 2 is a singleplayer bird's-eye view TBS game in the Hard West series.

General information

Official Discord server

Availability

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

No microtransactions information; you can edit this page to add it.

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Ice Code Games\HardWest2\GameSettings\ HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ice Code Games\HardWest2\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1282410/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Ice Code Games\HardWest2\Saves\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1282410/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		On/off toggle.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		TAA on/off toggle.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		`X` cannot be remapped from the Swap Weapons action.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, Music, Speech, SFX
Surround sound
Subtitles		Subtitles are always enabled for cutscenes and event dialogue, but are not available for remarks that characters make during combat or while traversing on the world map.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Gameplay settings

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Wwise
Input	Rewired

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo E4700 2.6 GHz AMD Phenom X4 9950 2.6 GHz	Intel Core i5-2320 3.0 GHz AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	35 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 AMD Radeon RX 550 DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti AMD Radeon RX 570

A 64-bit operating system is required.

↑ Unity engine build: 2019.4.27f1^[1]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1282410/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1282410) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

Developers

	Ice Code Games
Publishers
	Good Shepherd Entertainment
Engines
	Unity 2019^{[Note 1]}
Release dates
Windows	August 4, 2022
Reception
Metacritic	78
OpenCritic	80
IGDB	88
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Turn-based
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view
Controls	Point and select
Genres	TBS
Themes	Supernatural, Western, North America
Series	Hard West