Hard West Delayed, New Gameplay Footage

The developers at Creative Forge Games won’t be able to see players get through the results of their hard work on November 4th, as initially announced. Instead, their supernatural-meets-western turn-based strategy/RPG hybrid Hard West will be released on November 18th. The game was delayed ostensibly because the developers identified new ways to improve the title and felt that it would be best to implement those changes before the game’s release rather than via patches.

To sweeten the taste of this bad news, they have released a new 8-minute video walkthrough of one of the game’s missions:

Additionally, here’s the trailer for the new release date announcement:

And finally, here’s the full press release:

Hard West Holding Fire Until November 18th

October 30, 2015 The release of Hard West, the anticipated tactical turn-based western of six-shooters and the supernatural, is being pushed back to give the developers more time for additional finishing touches and fine-tuning. Hard West will now be coming to PC (Win/Mac/Linux) on November 18th.

Hard West’s Lead Designer, Kacper Szymczak, said:

(Creating a game is an ever-shifting process in which one change can lead to another. Although we recently announced a release date, a few last-minute changes revealed some excellent opportunities for improvements. While it would be easy to patch in little details, we all know how we feel about such moves. When the game releases, it should be as good as it can be.

The scope of Hard West and its story is going to surprise a lot people. Its complex, with choice and consequence, and this extra time allows us to ensure that everything has the level of polish it deserves.)

Follow Warren on his descent into the darkest recesses of the human soul, and try to survive in a world full of hard choices and even harder consequences. In this world, death is a constant presence and the black pacts you make will forever haunt all those around you. Fight your way through 40 missions of henchmen, cultists, and cannibals in your quest for vengeance. Uncover the plans of the ancient powers at play and make difficult choices that resonate throughout your journey. Collect and combine poker cards to craft special abilities, and arm yourself with an eclectic collection of firearms including outlandish prototypes of the era.

Hard West is the second game from Warsaw-based studio, CreativeForge Games, and features the talented writing of Haris Orkin (Company of Heroes 2, Dying Light and Call of Juarez series), and an original score composed by Marcin Przybyłowicz (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt).

About CreativeForge Games
CreativeForge Games is a Warsaw based game development studio founded in 2011. The team consists of industry veterans from renowned Polish studios such as Techland, CI Games and Flying Wild Hog as well as talented newcomers. Having worked on both big games and artistic projects, indie flash and casual games, everyone on the team strives to complement each other with their experience and passion, with the goal of creating more and more powerful experiences for gamers.

About Gambitious Digital Entertainment
Gambitious Digital Entertainment is a publishing label created as a key component of an ongoing effort to offer artist-friendly digital content production and publishing (inspired by Devolver Digital) to an ever-growing number of developers around the world, utilizing an evolving set of creative crowd finance tools and techniques to get more great games funded, produced, and successfully released. They’ve also won every publisher dance-off they’ve been invited to.