Premature Evaluation: This Land Is My Land

Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which Steve Hogarty explores the wilds of early access. This week, he’s hiding in a bush making coyote sounds to prevent the colonisation of North America.

Developer: Game-Labs
Publisher: Game-Labs
Release: Out now (early access)
On: Windows
From: Steam
For: £35/$45/€42

Hickory Resource Manager 2019, more popularly known as This Land Is My Land, is an open world stealth game set in the 19th century (cowboy times) in which you play a Native American chief re-establishing his lost tribe by settling new camps, picking flowers and murdering (or just frightening) the invading colonisers. It is Red Dead Redemption turned on its stetson, ass up and spurs pointed skywards, a refreshing inversion of the traditional narrative of the oppressors in which the pox-ridden frontiersmen are the baddies and the indigenous peoples of North America are the heroes.

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