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Half Minute Hero: The Second Coming cover art

Half Minute Hero: The Second Coming

Opus · Marvelous · 2014-04-04

Steam

ActionIndieRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Aug 04, 2011 (PlayStation Portable), Apr 04, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The world's speediest homage/roast to JRPGs! Can you save the world in 30 seconds? Get a quest, find those in need, fight through dungeons, earn cash, get cool loot and level up until YOU>EVIL. Don't have enough time? Pay the Goddess to reset the clock and try again! Over 100 mini-JRPGs for you to test your might with!

0
playing now
92%
positive of 561 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming is a 2011 action role-playing game developed by Opus and published by Marvelous. It is the sequel to Half-Minute Hero. It was released in Japan for the PlayStation Portable before being localized in English for Windows in 2014.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 43% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k–34k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 561 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2015-12-22) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.992015-01-012023-03-232015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-06-22 — best price $9.992015-11-25 — best price $2.492016-01-04 — best price $9.992016-06-23 — best price $2.492016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-03-30 — best price $2.492017-07-05 — best price $9.992017-11-22 — best price $2.492018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-06-22 — best price $2.492018-11-01 — best price $9.992018-12-21 — best price $2.492019-02-11 — best price $9.992019-06-25 — best price $2.492019-10-15 — best price $9.992019-11-10 — best price $2.492019-12-03 — best price $9.992020-01-23 — best price $2.492020-05-06 — best price $9.992020-10-29 — best price $2.492020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-02-11 — best price $2.492021-05-06 — best price $9.992021-10-28 — best price $2.492021-12-01 — best price $9.992022-01-27 — best price $2.492022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $2.492023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-03-23 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2532026-06-01 — 16 pageviews2026-06-04 — 11 pageviews2026-06-07 — 12 pageviews2026-06-10 — 15 pageviews2026-06-13 — 14 pageviews2026-06-16 — 7 pageviews2026-06-19 — 10 pageviews2026-06-22 — 7 pageviews2026-06-25 — 9 pageviews2026-06-28 — 17 pageviews2026-07-01 — 11 pageviews2026-07-04 — 8 pageviews2026-07-07 — 7 pageviews2026-07-10 — 6 pageviews2026-07-13 — 4 pageviews2026-07-16 — 16 pageviews2026-07-19 — 7 pageviews2026-07-22 — 17 pageviews2026-07-25 — 8 pageviews2026-07-28 — 10 pageviews2026-07-31 — 16 pageviews2026-08-03 — 20 pageviews2026-08-06 — 5 pageviews2026-08-09 — 9 pageviews2026-08-12 — 19 pageviews2026-08-15 — 10 pageviews2026-08-18 — 3 pageviews2026-08-21 — 9 pageviews2026-08-24 — 11 pageviews2026-08-27 — 11 pageviews2026-08-29 — 12 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsIncludes level editorFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)88811%32

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DRPGJRPGIndieRetroActionComedyAdventureAction RPGFast-Paced

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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