AdventureIndieRPGStrategy
Hard West
Give it 10 hours
Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending at least 16% of players who started
Started playing 54% of owners
Steam reviews 75% positive of 4,940
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (58%); after 15h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- The opening is criticised more than in 87% of games we track.
- At least 16% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Raw Deal” (Complete "Hard Times") and “Vengeance Served Cold” (Complete "As Good as Dead"): from 100% to 54% of starters.
- Only 54% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 4,954 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 19.9h for positive, 6.5h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (53.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Raw Deal Complete "Hard Times". 100%
- Vengeance Served Cold Complete "As Good as Dead". Most players quit here 54% −46
- Sanity Engineered Complete "Method in Madness". 35% −20
- The Meaning of Life Complete "Graveyard Shift". 34% −1
- Everlasting Fame and Fortune Complete "In Gold We Trust". 26% −8
- Drowned in Blood Complete "Law & Order". 23% −3
- A Gift Scorned Complete "A Matter of Time". 19% −4
- Requiem for a Gunfighter Restore order in the Weird West. ≥16% −4
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (35)
story milestone ending side
- Raw Deal Complete "Hard Times". 100%
- Fastest Gun in the West Kill an enemy in the very first action in a tactical encounter. 71%
- Vengeance Served Cold Complete "As Good as Dead". 54%
- Sanity Engineered Complete "Method in Madness". 35%
- The Meaning of Life Complete "Graveyard Shift". 34%
- Through Thick and Thick Complete "Graveyard Shift" without anyone being hungry at any time. 29%
- Daring but Careful Complete "In Gold We Trust" with no more than 50 peons dead. 26%
- Everlasting Fame and Fortune Complete "In Gold We Trust". 26%
- Blind Justice Kill 10 enemies with blind shots (no line of sight) 26%
- Drowned in Blood Complete "Law & Order". 23%
- Double Excellence Fully develop two technological domains during "Method in Madness". 20%
- Aces in the Hole Assemble the Five of a Kind hand. 19%
- A Gift Scorned Complete "A Matter of Time". 19%
- His Leniency, The Inquisitor Complete "Law & Order" having committed at most 2 massacres. 19%
- The Wild Bunch Use at least 30 different characters during tactical encounters throughout the game. 17%
- Requiem for a Gunfighter Restore order in the Weird West. 16%
- Once Upon a Time in the Weird West Complete all Scenarios. 16%
- On Earth, as It Is in Hell Establish Warren's new world order. 14%
- The Shootist Complete any tactical encounter firing sure shots (100% Chance to Hit) exclusively. 11%
- Fight No More Forever Complete any tactical mission without firing a shot. 8.8%
- Trickshooter Kill an enemy with a bullet ricocheting off at least 3 different objects. 7.7%
- Brimstone Killer Kill a demon while your character is in demon form. 6.7%
- Scars of Freedom Complete 'Scars of Freedom'. 6.0%
- Human Resources Collect at least 75 Ether from enemies fallen in one combat encounter. 5.8%
- Army of Two Complete the train assault with just Libertee and Phineas in your posse. 5.6%
- Welcome to Hard Times Complete a single Scenario on Hard difficulty, with both Ironman and Injuries enabled. 5.2%
- The Aspirton Incident Complete the Aspirton Bank Robbery in "As Good as Dead" before demons arrive. 4.9%
- High Stakes Win a liver in a game of dice. 3.6%
- Sudden Death Use Equalization in the first combat turn, then complete the mission without raising your characters' Hit Points with items. 3.2%
- Arizona Colts Complete any tactical encounter without firing weapons other than the Rusty Peashooter. 3.2%
- Dr Frankenstein Complete any of the 'Golem' hands on a character and complete at least one combat encounter with that character. 3.0%
- The Searcher Unlock all Trinkets in the game. 2.4%
- What Goes Around, Comes Around Kill Joaquim Perez with the Cañón Calavera. 2.2%
- Welcome to Even Harder Times Complete every Scenario on Hard, every Scenario with Injuries and every Scenario with Ironman enabled. 2.1%
- Treasures of the Sierra Madre Use 25 different usable items at least once. 1.9%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.