allboardgames.com
Western Legends box art
2018 Ranked #272

Western Legends

Western Legends is an open-world adventure game where frontier figures earn renown through pursuits such as prospecting, cattle driving, gambling, lawkeeping, or crime. Your choices can push you toward outlaw status or respectability, creating a sandbox race with competing stories.

Thematic Games Adventure American West Action Points Area Movement

Players

2-6

Play time

60-90 min

Age

14+

Complexity

2.83/5

Rating

7.61

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

See all 5 specifications

How it plays

How does it play?

Historic characters from the American Wild West face off and write new legends across the face of history! Gather your gun, your mount, and your grit as you forge your path into the history books.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Read the full game description

Historic characters from the American Wild West face off and write new legends across the face of history! Gather your gun, your mount, and your grit as you forge your path into the history books. Western Legends is an open-world sandbox tabletop adventure for 2-6 players set in the American Wild West. Players assume the roles of historical figures of the era, earning their legendary status in a variety of ways: gamble, drive cattle, prospect for gold, rob the bank, fight bandits, pursue stories, become an outlaw, keep the peace. The possibilities are darn near endless. Each player's turn starts with drawing poker cards and/or gaining cash. Then they choose three actions. Possible actions include: move on the map (how far depends on whether they have a mount), doing a location-specific action (such as mine for gold if they are at a gold mine, gamble if they're in a saloon, etc.), fight other players at the same location (either duel them, rob them, or arrest them if they're wanted), play poker cards that have action abilities, etc. Legendary Points (LPs) are earned based on the outcomes of many of these actions, and the winner is whoever has the most LPs at the end of the game. Key Points - Award-winning gaming experience set in the American West! - Beautiful artwork, and presentation brings this highly thematic game to life. - Intuitive gameplay and choices lets you write your own legend every game! Note: The Russian edition of Western Legends contains two expansions packaged inside the box and thus has its own entry here: ??????? ?????? ??????

Browse all classifications

Shopping

Where to buy

No verified retailer offers are available yet. The references below may still help you continue your search.

Unverified shopping references

Videos (19)

How to play

Now playing Video

Photos (3)

Game detail 1 of 3

Photo

Editions

Language and publisher variants currently recorded in the catalog.

Edition Year Language Publisher / Region
No editions imported yet.

Player resources

Rulebooks, player aids, FAQs, and solo resources.

No files imported yet.

Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
3–5
Play time
60–90 min
Age
14+
Complexity
2.8/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Hervé Lemaître

Artists

1
Roland MacDonald

Publishers

1
Kolossal Games

Linked items

No published linked games yet.