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DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ Slime Edition cover art

DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ Slime Edition

KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. · Square Enix · 2015-12-03

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ActionRPG

Franchise: Musou, Dragon Quest · Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 26, 2015 (PlayStation 3), Dec 03, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 16, 2015 (PlayStation 4)

DRAGON QUEST, one of the most iconic RPG series from Japan, now comes to PC as a full-scale action RPG in DRAGON QUEST HEROES: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below.

4
playing now
69%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
critic score (12 outlets, IGDB)
76/100
IGDB user rating (21 ratings)
20h
to beat · rushed 12h · completionist 40h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$39.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below is a hack and slash game developed by Omega Force and published by Square Enix. It was released for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in Japan in February 2015, and in North America, Australia and Europe only for PlayStation 4 in October 2015. It was later released for Microsoft Windows in December 2015. The game received generally positive reviews, with a sequel Dragon Quest Heroes II being released in Japan during May 2016. Dragon Quest Heroes would later be released with the sequel in a compilation for Nintendo Switch in Japan.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 30% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 34k–80k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,341 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $15.99 at Steam (2021-05-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

612026-08-11 18:00 — 5 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 5 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 6 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$59.99$15.992015-11-192021-10-132015-11-19 — best price $53.992016-02-22 — best price $59.992016-05-09 — best price $59.992016-06-14 — best price $47.992016-08-30 — best price $41.992016-10-27 — best price $29.992016-12-22 — best price $26.792017-02-20 — best price $39.992017-07-05 — best price $39.992017-09-15 — best price $39.992017-12-21 — best price $19.992018-03-05 — best price $39.992018-05-11 — best price $39.992018-06-22 — best price $23.992018-07-18 — best price $23.972018-11-15 — best price $19.992019-01-03 — best price $39.992019-02-22 — best price $19.992019-05-06 — best price $39.992019-07-08 — best price $20.002019-07-22 — best price $39.992019-09-24 — best price $19.992019-12-21 — best price $20.002020-01-09 — best price $19.992020-01-22 — best price $19.992020-03-03 — best price $20.002020-04-30 — best price $19.992020-05-09 — best price $39.992020-07-16 — best price $39.992020-12-22 — best price $19.992021-01-14 — best price $19.992021-03-29 — best price $39.992021-06-09 — best price $39.992021-07-12 — best price $15.992021-09-30 — best price $19.992021-10-13 — best price $39.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

119342026-05-29 — 100 pageviews2026-06-01 — 98 pageviews2026-06-04 — 88 pageviews2026-06-07 — 71 pageviews2026-06-10 — 76 pageviews2026-06-13 — 62 pageviews2026-06-16 — 42 pageviews2026-06-19 — 69 pageviews2026-06-22 — 102 pageviews2026-06-25 — 75 pageviews2026-06-28 — 69 pageviews2026-07-01 — 69 pageviews2026-07-04 — 71 pageviews2026-07-07 — 61 pageviews2026-07-10 — 47 pageviews2026-07-13 — 66 pageviews2026-07-16 — 44 pageviews2026-07-19 — 51 pageviews2026-07-22 — 34 pageviews2026-07-25 — 67 pageviews2026-07-28 — 61 pageviews2026-07-31 — 55 pageviews2026-08-03 — 57 pageviews2026-08-06 — 53 pageviews2026-08-09 — 52 pageviews2026-08-12 — 36 pageviews2026-08-15 — 55 pageviews2026-08-18 — 58 pageviews2026-08-21 — 56 pageviews2026-08-24 — 43 pageviews2026-08-26 — 62 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
89.6%
earned "Fundamentalist"
14.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean

Player tags

RPGJRPGAnimeMusouActionCasualDragonsFantasyAction RPGBeat 'em up

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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