

A setting that pulls the old trick of pairing border aesthetics with several tons of cynicism, and that might remind you of a far west Preacher. It is because of a level of demand that could be understood as another direct inheritance of the Microprose and Firaxis saga, but even more because of its setting.

This is how Hard West began, the small experiment by CreativeForge that saw the light at the end of last year and that from its very title made things very clear: because it is set in the west (it is a cowboy XCOM, let’s stop rodeos) and because it is hard. As an alternate episode, Scars of Freedom doesn’t add much to an already irregular formula.Ĭall me impressionable, but I can think of few more forceful ways to set a tone than to greet the player with his mother’s head tucked into a cardboard box.
