History YMMV / HardWest

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Any hit-chance calculation above 80 is rounded up to 100, while anything below 20 is rounded down to 0. The former removes any ambiguity in taking any high-odds shots (i.e. the 1-in-100 possibility of missing a 98% shot). The latter avoids any situation where you might die from a very low-odds shot landing from the opposing side, as well as making tedious long-range shot-spam tactics unviable.

** The Judge. A single shot rifle that can be unlocked during the ''On Earth, as it is in Hell'' scenario. It is capable of killing every enemy in one shot and dealing significant damage to those in cover. It also gives aiming bonuses to the character using it. What pushes the gun into this is that it can be bought from the Fate Trader in every scenario after it is unlocked.
** The Golden Bullet ability allows a character to hit anyone with 100% accuracy at any distance, ignoring cover and bullet drop, so long as that character is within line of sight of the party, not just the character taking the shot. Combine that with The Judge and you have a guaranteed one hit kill on almost anything.

* CompleteMonster: {{Satan}} himself is the mastermind behind all the ills in the game. Having a benevolent society seeking to cure violent dementia wiped out by a corrupted inquisitor, allowing the illness to flourish, Satan orchestrated a series of deaths to eventually corrupt the gunslinger Warren, having Warren and his pure-hearted lover Florence killed. Once this is done, Satan revives Warren to send him on a killing spree, intending on having him destroy purgatory so the mad souls cause humanity's extinction and leave an undead Warren to rot in an empty world forevermore.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: In a lot of scenarios [[VillainProtagonist you're playing as someone doing despicable deeds]], or someone in your posse will betray you one way or another. Combine this with [[spoiler:Warren being billed as the central protagonist with the narrator character even referring to him in second-person throughout the game, only for Warren to become so far deep that there's no way to redeem him at the end]], and you've got a story that gets too depressing to bother completing. Since only the narrator has any dialogue you never really get any serious introspective into how everyone else is acting to the events that unfold. One omission is [[spoiler:how Warren and his father, The Undertaker, feel about fighting each other to the death at the end]].

* AwesomeMusic: One of the best parts of the game is the atmospheric music done by Marcin Przybylowicz, who also worked on the soundtrack of ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt''

* DisappointingLastLevel: [[spoiler: Purgatory]], the finale of the ''On Earth, as it is in Hell'' scenario and Warren's storyline. The entire scenario up to this point is spent putting together a party capable of breaking into it. However, the final combat is only against 4 other enemies, and your party is likely loaded with endgame equipment at this point, making it fairly trivial to win. [[However, doing so earns the ''bad'' ending; to get the good ending, you either have to play as the opposing party -- meaning you have to ''fight'' that dream team you've spent the past few hours building and arming with quality gear -- or choose to commit suicide after you win]].
* GameBreaker: The Judge. A single shot rifle that can be unlocked during the ''On Earth, as it is in Hell'' scenario. It is capable of killing every enemy in one shot and dealing significant damage to those in cover. It also gives aiming bonuses to the character using it. What pushes the gun into this is that it can be bought from the Fate Trader in every scenario after it is unlocked.

* DisappointingLastLevel: [[spoiler: Purgatory]], the finale of the ''On Earth, as it is in Hell'' scenario and Warren's storyline. The entire scenario up to this point is spent putting together a party capable of breaking into it. However, the final combat is only against 4 other enemies, and your party is likely loaded with endgame equipment at this point, making it fairly trivial to win.

* ThatOneLevel: The start of the ''On Earth, as it is in Hell'' scenario immediately throws you into combat alone against a good amount of cultists and a demon who will constantly respawn until you destroy its blood vials and kill it a final time. Smart usage of the items and abilities the game starts you with is critical to survive.

** No manual save (there's an autosave feature in a single save slot, but only on the worldmap). Supporters view it as a way to force players to ponder each decision (while preventing SaveScumming), while detractors consider that the absence of any save during a tactical encounter is just FakeDifficulty.
** The enemy can use overwatch, the player characters cant. Supporters explain it forces to play with a tactical mind (to flank the enemy), while detractors consider it gives an unfair advantage to the AI.

* AwesomeMusic: One of the best parts of the game is the atmospheric soundtrack done by Marcin Przybylowicz, who also worked on the soundtrack of ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt''
* DisappointingLastLevel: [[spoiler: Purgatory]], the finale of the ''On Earth, as it is in Hell'' scenario and Warren's storyline. The entire scenario to this point is spent putting together a party capable of breaking into it. However, the final combat is only against 4 other enemies, and your party is likely loaded with endgame equipment at this point, making it fairly trivial to win.
* GameBreaker: The Judge. A single shot rifle that can be unlocked during the ''On Earth, as it is in Hell'' scenario. It is capable of killing every enemy in one shot and dealing significant damage to those in cover. It also gives aiming bonuses to the character using it. Once unlocked it can be bought from the Fate Trader in every scenario.

* ThatOneLevel: The start of the ''On Earth, as it is in Hell'' scenario immediately throws you into combat alone against a good amount of cultists and a demon who will constantly respawn until you destroy its blood vials and kill it a final time. Smart usage of the items and abilities the game gives you is critical to survive.