Hard West

Hard West

Developers
	CreativeForge Games
Publishers
	Gambitious Digital Entertainment
Engines
	Unity 5
Release dates
Windows	November 18, 2015
macOS (OS X)	November 18, 2015
Linux	November 18, 2015
Reception
Metacritic	73
OpenCritic	71
IGDB	70

General information

Official wiki

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Gamesplanet		Collector's Edition, Complete Edition also available.
GOG.com		Collector's Edition also available.
Green Man Gaming		Collector's Edition also available.
Humble Store		Collector's Edition also available.
Mac App Store
Steam		Collector's Edition, Complete Edition also available.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename movie files Go to <path-to-game>\Data\Movies\. Delete or rename intro.bytes.

Game data

In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\HardWest\<user-id>\keys.ini %USERPROFILE%\Documents\HardWest\<user-id>\options.ini
macOS (OS X)
Linux

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\HardWest\<user-id>\
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Gameplay is Hor+; Cinematics are Vert-.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Enable windowed mode and use the -popupwindow parameter (or see the glossary page).
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		On/off toggle.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input settings

In-game input settings.

Gamepad controls.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity		Deadzone slider only.
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers

Tracked motion controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

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  In-game key bindings.

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, Music, Speech, Ambient, Sound Effects, Interface, Cinematic
Surround sound		Stereo
Subtitles		Cinematic subtitles can be toggled on/off. Other subtitles are always on.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Polish
Russian
Spanish				Fan translation, download.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Vista, 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU)	AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad 2.6 GHz	AMD Athlon II X4 3.1 GHz Intel Core i5 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	6 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	6 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon HD 4670 Nvidia GeForce GT 430 512 MB (ATI), 1 GB (Nvidia) of VRAM DirectX 10 compatible	AMD Radeon R7 260X Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti 2 GB (AMD), 1 GB (Nvidia) of VRAM

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.9.6, 10.10, 10.11
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-2520M 2.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	6 GB
Video card (GPU)	AMD Radeon HD 6630M 256 MB of VRAM

Linux
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 14.04, Mint 17
Processor (CPU)	AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad 2.6 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	6 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon HD 4670 Nvidia GeForce GT 430 512 MB (ATI), 1 GB (Nvidia) of VRAM