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Has-Been Heroes

Frozenbyte · GameTrust Games · 2017-03-27

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 04, 2017 (Xbox One), Apr 04, 2017 (Nintendo Switch), Mar 27, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 04, 2017 (PlayStation 4)

Has-Been Heroes is a challenging, lane-based roguelike game of strategy and action, featuring a band of heroes on a quest to escort the King's twin princesses to school!

1
playing now
76%
positive of 391 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
68/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

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

Has-Been Heroes is an action video game developed by Frozenbyte and published by GameTrust. The game was released on 28 March 2017 in North America and in Europe and Australia on 4 April 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox One. This game is Gamestop exclusive and was only sold through Gamestop stores at launch.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 49% of 11,000 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.8k–23k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 391 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at Humble Store (2018-05-10) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days · $16.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$3.992017-03-252026-08-292017-03-25 — best price $19.992017-06-09 — best price $9.992017-07-05 — best price $19.992017-09-07 — best price $9.992017-11-01 — best price $19.992017-12-05 — best price $9.992017-12-21 — best price $9.992018-01-11 — best price $7.992018-02-19 — best price $19.992018-05-10 — best price $3.992018-07-05 — best price $19.992018-10-29 — best price $4.992018-11-21 — best price $4.992018-12-21 — best price $4.992019-01-24 — best price $19.992019-05-10 — best price $5.992019-06-25 — best price $5.992019-08-29 — best price $5.992019-11-01 — best price $19.992019-12-01 — best price $5.992020-01-02 — best price $19.992020-01-12 — best price $6.792020-01-21 — best price $6.792020-01-27 — best price $19.992020-06-25 — best price $4.992020-09-10 — best price $19.992020-11-25 — best price $6.992020-12-22 — best price $6.992026-08-29 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play on PhoneRemote Play on TabletRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing

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

Player tags

2DRPGIndieActionStrategyTacticalRogue-likeRogue-liteReplay ValueTactical RPG

Census log

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

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