Games like Hard West 2
If Hard West 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hard West, Rogue Waters and Jagged Alliance 3 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its sound design is amazing, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Hard West 2 is a turn-based tactical RPG set in a supernatural Wild West, developed by Ice Code Games and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment. Players control a supernatural posse pursuing the Ghost Train across a dark American frontier, navigating a campaign that takes roughly medium length to complete. The game features a bravado system, card-combination skills, and environmental interactions that reward tactical positioning, with difficulty rated as challenging. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, and reviewers highlight the emphasis on tactical positioning as a core hook. The game runs solo only, supports keyboard and mouse or controller play, and costs $29.99 USD. It received a 82% positive rating from 1307 Steam reviews and is not currently supported on Steam Deck.
About Hard West 2: 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.
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Hard West
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hard West 2.
Top pick for Hard West 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hard West 2.
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
Rogue Waters
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hard West 2.
Second-strongest match for Hard West 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hard West 2.
Rogue Waters is a Pirate Tactical Turn-Based Rogue-lite. Play as Captain Cutter, commanding your ship and crew through procedurally generated encounters to seek revenge. Recruit, train, and upgrade crew, use powerful sea creatures, and engage in dynamic naval and melee combat to gain the upper hand.
Jagged Alliance 3
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hard West 2.
Third-strongest match for Hard West 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hard West 2.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
Gears Tactics
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Ranked #4 for Hard West 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hard West 2.
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
The Last Spell
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Shares a challenging mood with Hard West 2.
Ranked #5 for Hard West 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hard West 2.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Wasteland 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hard West 2.
Ranked #6 for Hard West 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hard West 2.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
Wintermoor Tactics Club
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Ranked #7 for Hard West 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hard West 2.
Wintermoor Tactics Club is a story about surviving high school, with gameplay inspired by tactics RPGs and visual novels.
The Banner Saga 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hard West 2.
Ranked #8 for Hard West 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hard West 2.
Banner Saga 3 is the epic conclusion to a sweeping viking saga six years in the making. This strategic RPG, acclaimed for its strong story and compelling characters has won over 20 awards and been nominated for 4 BAFTA awards.
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XCOM® 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hard West 2.
Reviewers of Hard West 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Hard West 2.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hard West 2.
Reviewers of Hard West 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Hard West 2.
MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?
Wasteland 3
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hard West 2.
Reviewers of Hard West 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hard West 2.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hard West 2.
Reviewers of Hard West 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hard West 2.
A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.
Tactical Breach Wizards
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Shares a challenging mood with Hard West 2.
Reviewers of Hard West 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hard West 2.
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
Red Dead Redemption
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hard West 2.
Reviewers of Hard West 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Hard West 2.
Experience the story of former outlaw John Marston as he tracks down the last remaining members of the notorious Van der Linde Gang in the PC debut of the critically acclaimed predecessor to Red Dead Redemption 2.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hard West 2 at current Steam store prices.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hard West 2 on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Hard West 2.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
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Priced ~67% under Hard West 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hard West 2.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~67% under Hard West 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hard West 2.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~53% under Hard West 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hard West 2.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~50% under Hard West 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hard West 2.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
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Priced ~67% under Hard West 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hard West 2.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hard West 2.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hard West 2.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hard West 2.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Hard West 2.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with Hard West 2.
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Hard West 2.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Hard West 2.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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More from Ice Code Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Ice Code Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Rogue Waters
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hard West 2.
Another title from Ice Code Games, the studio behind Hard West 2. Shares Action and Strategy with Hard West 2.
Rogue Waters is a Pirate Tactical Turn-Based Rogue-lite. Play as Captain Cutter, commanding your ship and crew through procedurally generated encounters to seek revenge. Recruit, train, and upgrade crew, use powerful sea creatures, and engage in dynamic naval and melee combat to gain the upper hand.
Re-Legion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hard West 2.
Another title from Ice Code Games, the studio behind Hard West 2. Shares Action and Strategy with Hard West 2.
Become The Prophet in a world of the future without the future! Lead your Cult in this cyberpunk RTS in the fight against evil corporations and heretics. Choose your creed, convert citizens, create an army and take over the city!
Nightmare Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hard West 2.
Another title from Ice Code Games, the studio behind Hard West 2. Shares Strategy with Hard West 2.
Behold the first-ever Tactical Extraction Looter where you pit your courage and leadership against fears made manifest: the Dreadweavers. Lead a band of scavenger roughnecks into a devastated boom town of the alternative 1900s. Get in, face the monsters, grab what you can carry and get out. Alive.
Deep Blue 3D Maze in Space
WHY THIS
Another title from Ice Code Games, the studio behind Hard West 2. Shares Action with Hard West 2.
A multi-dimensional gaming experience beyond anything you’ve ever played before. Try to control the constantly rolling ball which moves in a three-dimensional maze, collect gravitons, open the portal and escape before the platform explodes. And most important beware of everything that is purple!
Frequently asked about Hard West 2
- Does Hard West 2 work on Steam Deck?
- Hard West 2 is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Hard West 2 cost?
- Hard West 2 is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hard West 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hard West 2 are Hard West, Rogue Waters, Jagged Alliance 3.
- Who developed Hard West 2?
- Hard West 2 was developed by Ice Code Games and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment.
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