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Heretic's Fork

9FingerGames · Ravenage Games · 2023-09-13

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Modes: Single player

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!

19
playing now
85%
positive of 4.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

19 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 19 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 18% of 10,903 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 82k–185k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,104 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$7.48-25%
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 29 of 45 observed days (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

3482026-08-07 00:00 — 16 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 19 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 27 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 19 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 25 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 21 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 24 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 21 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 27 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 18 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 14 players2026-08-10 17:00 — 27 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 19 players2026-08-11 09:00 — 12 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 22 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 17 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 12 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 21 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 17 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 9 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 16 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 15 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 15 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 18 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 23 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 13 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 11 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 20 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 19 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$3.792023-09-132026-08-262023-09-13 — 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 $7.482026-08-26 — 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

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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