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Herald: An Interactive Period Drama - Book I & II cover art

Herald: An Interactive Period Drama - Book I & II

Wispfire · 2017-02-22

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 22, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 22, 2017 (Mac), Feb 22, 2017 (Linux)

Herald is a choice-driven adventure set on colonial tides. Board the HLV Herald and uncover its dark secrets in an intriguing tale about tyranny and servitude.

90%
positive of 151 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$11.99
steam price (US)
Herald is a single-player adventure video game, or "interactive period drama", for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. It was the first game released by Wispfire, a Dutch indie studio located in the Dutch Game Garden, Utrecht. The company was founded by creative director Bart Heijltjes, writer Roy van der Schilden, artist Aïda de Ridder, and programmer Remko Haagsma. On March 31, 2017, Wispfire released a Patch that allows Herald to be played with Xbox 360, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 analog stick controllers.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 51% of 15,268 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.8k–9.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 151 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at WinGameStore (2024-06-07) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 32 of 34 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220172026Week of 2017-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$11.99$1.492017-02-162026-06-172017-02-16 — best price $9.992017-06-07 — best price $7.992017-09-14 — best price $7.992017-11-22 — best price $7.992018-01-25 — best price $9.992018-07-16 — best price $9.992018-11-27 — best price $9.992019-01-04 — best price $9.992019-05-28 — best price $9.992019-10-28 — best price $5.992019-12-07 — best price $9.992020-01-12 — best price $4.992020-01-31 — best price $9.992020-10-29 — best price $3.992021-06-09 — best price $3.992021-11-26 — best price $3.992022-02-21 — best price $9.992022-06-13 — best price $9.992022-10-27 — best price $3.992022-12-01 — best price $9.992023-04-04 — best price $9.992023-08-14 — best price $2.992023-10-25 — best price $2.992023-12-13 — best price $2.992024-03-14 — best price $2.992024-06-07 — best price $1.492024-08-15 — best price $2.992024-11-26 — best price $2.992025-02-21 — best price $9.992025-06-02 — best price $3.992025-08-11 — best price $9.992025-10-09 — best price $3.992026-01-03 — best price $4.492026-03-17 — best price $4.502026-06-01 — best price $4.992026-06-17 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1802026-06-14 — 2 pageviews2026-06-17 — 5 pageviews2026-06-20 — 3 pageviews2026-06-23 — 2 pageviews2026-06-26 — 3 pageviews2026-06-29 — 5 pageviews2026-07-02 — 0 pageviews2026-07-05 — 4 pageviews2026-07-08 — 1 pageviews2026-07-11 — 1 pageviews2026-07-14 — 3 pageviews2026-07-17 — 3 pageviews2026-07-20 — 1 pageviews2026-07-23 — 7 pageviews2026-07-26 — 5 pageviews2026-07-29 — 5 pageviews2026-08-01 — 5 pageviews2026-08-04 — 18 pageviews2026-08-07 — 3 pageviews2026-08-10 — 2 pageviews2026-08-13 — 3 pageviews2026-08-16 — 3 pageviews2026-08-19 — 2 pageviews2026-08-22 — 2 pageviews2026-08-25 — 0 pageviews2026-08-28 — 4 pageviews2026-08-31 — 11 pageviews2026-09-03 — 2 pageviews2026-09-06 — 10 pageviews2026-09-09 — 2 pageviews2026-09-11 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

27
achievements tracked
40.5%
earned "A listening ear"
19.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Player tags

DramaIndieLGBTQ+AdventureStory RichSingleplayerVisual NovelHidden ObjectPoint & ClickChoices Matter

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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