Hard West: Scars of Freedom DLC Announced

The developers at CreativeForge Games have announced a new piece of downloadable content for Hard West, their turn-based strategy/RPG set in the wild west. It’s titled Scars of Freedom, and it will offer a tale inspired by Frankenstein and set in Texas during the Civil War.

The DLC is slated for a release on March 3rd for $2.99 and will include seven new missions, and a handful of new mechanics that will freshen the game up, like a new trade mechanic to purchase upgrades and body parts that can be implanted on posse members:

Hard West: Scars of Freedom offers a juicy new scenario with a dedicated story featuring new characters, 7 new tactical missions, a powerful new weapon, a bunch of new mechanics and ramped up challenge!

Meet Libertee, an escaped slave-turned-vigilante, and her nemesis – Doctor Gorman, a surgeon with somewhat radical views on the future of medicine. Discover their intertwining stories set against a backdrop of Civil War Texas, where classic western mixes with gothic horror.

Apart from a new story inspired by the works of Mary Shelley, the expansion also offers an equally Frankensteinesque new character development system which consists of acquiring body parts, and implanting them on your posse members. Thanks to a new trade mechanic, you will now be able to purchase your upgrades rather than get them randomly, which in turn will allow you to make strategic plans for how you want your posse to develop.

The developers will also be releasing a new patch for the game, before the DLC’s release proper, to fix a host of issues with the title and add new options to it.

If you want to see more, the folks over at Polygon have a video preview of the DLC. Credit goes to them for alerting us to the original announcement.