Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
Isometric Western tactics with six specialists and real-time stealth missions
Spellbound · Published by THQ Nordic · Released Nov 20, 2013
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 88% of 2,442
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 14
- peak 24h 19
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 8 years ago
- Jul 5, 2018
Metacritic: 78/100 (critic reviews)
What is Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive?
This single-player, isometric real-time tactics game is set in the American Southwest in 1881. Across 25 levels, you guide a growing team of six characters through stealth and combat missions as bounty hunter John Cooper pursues a gang robbing trains.
For you if...
- +you like studying enemy movements before making a move
- +you want a story-driven Western campaign played solo
Not for you if...
- −you want forgiving missions without frequent saves and retries
- −you prefer direct action to careful stealth planning
What players say
88% of 2,442 reviews are positive
Players praise the varied levels, Western story, and music. They complain about awkward controls and inconsistent enemy detection, and some report crashes.
Screenshots and trailer
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows XP/7/8/10 (32 or 64 bit)
- Processor
- 1 GHz Processor
- Graphics
- 3D graphics card compatible with OpenGL 3.1
- Memory
- 256 MB RAM
Recommended
- OS
- Windows XP/7/8/10 (32 or 64 bit)
- Processor
- 1.4 GHz recommended
- Graphics
- 3D graphics card compatible with OpenGL 3.1
- Memory
- 512 MB RAM
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian.
Tags
- Strategy
- Western
- Tactical
- Isometric
- Action
- Stealth
- Real Time Tactics
- Singleplayer
- Classic
- Atmospheric
- Real-Time
- RTS
- Difficult
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