Here’s a look at devilish cowboy tactics in Hard West 2

Be a cowboy, be full of bullets, and then explode.

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Hard West 2 is on the way, a second round of the2015 weird westerntactics you may or may not remember fondly for its odd structure and experimental narrative. Popping upon Steamand dropping a reveal trailer, Hard West 2 looks a heck of a lot like a sequel to Hard West, which I’d guess is what you want from it.

“Hard West 2 is a supernatural journey to the dark heart of the West. With a gun full of lead and a fistful of witchcraft, raise an outlaw posse and chase down the devil to take back what’s yours,” says the official description.

That said, it’s got a lot of new interesting things going on, the least of which is a really very pretty new overworld map, and a fight on a train, which always rules. It’s also with a new developer: Ice Code Games. The previous Hard West was made by CreativeForge games. The publisher, Good Shepherd Entertainment, remains the same.

We thought that the first game had some promise, but the core combat was a bit uninspired, inour review of Hard Westback in 2015.

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Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he’s not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.

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