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Diner Dash:® Hometown Hero™ cover art

Diner Dash:® Hometown Hero™

PlayFirst · 2009-08-12

Steam

Simulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 24, 2007 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 25, 2007 (Mac)

On a visit to her hometown, Flo and her Grandma Florence take a stroll down memory lane. Bring five restaurants back to life, and meet new customers like the Hungry Man and the Celebrity. Take special care of customers with reservations and place flowers at tables in order to make diners happier.

39%
positive of 385 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
40/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)
Diner Dash: Hometown Hero is the fourth installment in the Diner Dash series of casual games. It was developed and published by PlayFirst, and was launched on September 25, 2007.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 38 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity up 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 15,144 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k–31k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 385 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.09 at MacGameStore (2025-08-14)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$23.74$2.092015-01-012025-08-242015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-01-22 — best price $13.492015-01-23 — best price $12.952015-01-28 — best price $13.492015-03-19 — best price $13.492015-04-01 — best price $15.952015-04-04 — best price $15.952015-04-15 — best price $15.952015-04-17 — best price $15.952015-04-20 — best price $23.742015-04-21 — best price $15.952015-04-24 — best price $15.952015-04-29 — best price $15.952015-04-30 — best price $15.952015-05-01 — best price $15.952015-05-07 — best price $15.952015-05-18 — best price $16.492015-05-19 — best price $15.952015-06-03 — best price $15.952015-07-10 — best price $19.952015-11-25 — best price $4.982015-12-02 — best price $19.952015-12-04 — best price $7.952016-01-04 — best price $19.952017-03-21 — best price $9.952023-04-25 — best price $15.962023-05-08 — best price $19.952023-07-03 — best price $9.972023-07-18 — best price $19.952024-05-05 — best price $9.972024-05-19 — best price $19.952024-12-21 — best price $7.982025-01-01 — best price $19.952025-02-07 — best price $6.992025-08-14 — best price $2.092025-08-24 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CasualCookingSimulationTime Management

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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