The Game Census
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HERO DEFENSE

Happy Tuesday · Headup · 2016-05-31

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Aug 16, 2018 (PlayStation 4), Aug 15, 2018 (Xbox One), May 31, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

CREEPS CRUMBLE. HEROES RISE. Command a team of renegade heroes and impale, slash, tear and burn through legions of undead hell-bent on world domination. Your mission: to defeat the world’s most powerful vampire, Count Necrosis.

0
playing now
63%
positive of 772 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 38% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 19k–46k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 772 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$22.46-25%
Microsoft Store$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2020-11-06) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 34 of 46 observed days · $28.99 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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

Price history

$29.99$1.192016-01-262026-08-292016-01-26 — best price $13.492016-11-23 — best price $7.492018-11-28 — best price $29.992019-07-10 — best price $29.992019-12-03 — best price $29.992020-04-21 — best price $29.992020-06-05 — best price $18.892020-11-02 — best price $29.992021-01-09 — best price $18.892021-03-24 — best price $29.992021-05-19 — best price $29.992021-07-11 — best price $18.892021-08-30 — best price $26.992021-10-04 — best price $29.992021-11-19 — best price $18.892022-01-18 — best price $26.992022-03-01 — best price $26.992022-05-26 — best price $22.042022-07-29 — best price $2.992022-11-08 — best price $29.992023-01-05 — best price $29.992023-03-23 — best price $29.992023-07-13 — best price $29.992023-11-28 — best price $29.992024-02-19 — best price $29.992024-05-19 — best price $29.992024-10-13 — best price $1.492025-01-05 — best price $29.992025-04-29 — best price $29.992025-08-09 — best price $29.992025-11-18 — best price $22.042026-03-09 — best price $2.092026-05-30 — best price $22.462026-08-29 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,3383%33
PS4 (PlayStation)2870%32
Xbox One (Xbox)2690%32
PS4 (PlayStation)1390%32

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

Player tags

RPGCo-opFunnyIndieActionFantasyZombiesStrategyAddictiveAdventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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