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Heretic's Fork

9FingerGames · Ravenage Games · 2023-09-13

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ActionCasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 14, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Nov 14, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), Nov 14, 2024 (Xbox One), Sep 13, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 14, 2024 (PlayStation 4), Nov 14, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

Dear candidate, we are pleased to invite you to take up the position of manager of Hell. You will punish sinners by using our deck-building computer system to construct hellish towers capable of keeping the endless hordes of the underworld in check. Best of luck!

Heretic's Fork is an Action, Casual, Indie and Strategy game released in 2023, priced at $9.99, with a Very Positive sentiment (85% of 4119 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 200,000 .. 500,000.— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

16
playing now
85%
positive of 4.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
4.45★
PlayStation Store rating (110 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

16 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 16 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 171 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~21/week).
  • · Review velocity down 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (924 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 82k–185k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,119 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.79 at Fanatical (2025-06-20) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 21 of 39 observed days · $6.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
76276220232026Week of 2023-09-01: 762 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 162 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 251 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 436 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4292026-09-14 22:00 — 15 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 18 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 28 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 39 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 14 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 42 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 20 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 13 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 16 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 30 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 17 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 13 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 18 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 15 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 17 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 34 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 26 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 12 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 15 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 23 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 13 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 9 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 15 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 16 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.3k19Sep 2023Aug 2026Sep 2023 — avg 1,341 · peak 2,731Oct 2023 — avg 281 · peak 802Nov 2023 — avg 285 · peak 469Dec 2023 — avg 193 · peak 394Jan 2024 — avg 154 · peak 341Feb 2024 — avg 173 · peak 584Mar 2024 — avg 107 · peak 247Apr 2024 — avg 85 · peak 205May 2024 — avg 74 · peak 184Jun 2024 — avg 82 · peak 214Jul 2024 — avg 194 · peak 458Aug 2024 — avg 214 · peak 523Sep 2024 — avg 116 · peak 250Oct 2024 — avg 77 · peak 138Nov 2024 — avg 70 · peak 149Dec 2024 — avg 67 · peak 123Jan 2025 — avg 51 · peak 105Feb 2025 — avg 45 · peak 95Mar 2025 — avg 63 · peak 120Apr 2025 — avg 44 · peak 78May 2025 — avg 42 · peak 71Jun 2025 — avg 32 · peak 68Jul 2025 — avg 38 · peak 90Aug 2025 — avg 38 · peak 78Sep 2025 — avg 31 · peak 61Oct 2025 — avg 27 · peak 57Nov 2025 — avg 62 · peak 349Dec 2025 — avg 38 · peak 70Jan 2026 — avg 32 · peak 64Feb 2026 — avg 28 · peak 53Mar 2026 — avg 55 · peak 243Apr 2026 — avg 24 · peak 49May 2026 — avg 31 · peak 70Jun 2026 — avg 19 · peak 38Jul 2026 — avg 22 · peak 45Aug 2026 — avg 19 · peak 37
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$3.792023-09-132026-10-142023-09-13 — best price $8.492023-11-20 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $7.992024-02-09 — best price $9.992024-03-25 — best price $6.992024-06-03 — best price $9.992024-07-31 — best price $4.992024-09-18 — best price $4.992024-11-04 — best price $9.992024-12-19 — best price $4.992025-03-03 — best price $4.992025-03-30 — best price $7.342025-04-21 — best price $4.992025-05-03 — best price $7.342025-05-18 — best price $8.992025-06-06 — best price $7.342025-06-26 — best price $4.992025-07-14 — best price $7.342025-07-22 — best price $8.992025-07-25 — best price $4.992025-08-09 — best price $8.992025-08-27 — best price $7.342025-09-04 — best price $8.992025-09-07 — best price $7.342025-09-11 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $4.992025-10-24 — best price $7.342025-11-16 — best price $9.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-02-02 — best price $7.342026-02-24 — best price $7.342026-03-19 — best price $4.992026-04-13 — best price $4.092026-05-11 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $4.992026-07-30 — best price $4.992026-08-21 — best price $7.482026-09-09 — best price $9.992026-09-30 — best price $9.992026-10-14 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

29
achievements tracked
74.2%
earned "A Worthy Sacrifice"
29.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing4 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 4 DLC released, first 2023-09-13, latest 2023-12-21 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6,3317%29
PS5 (PlayStation)16876%20
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)8741%19
PS4 (PlayStation)2255%20
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DActionArcadeStrategyTacticalTop-DownCard GameRogue-likeRogue-liteBullet Hell

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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