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Hero Quest: Tower Conflict

Mihai Morosanu · New Reality Games · 2016-04-13

Steam

ActionCasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 13, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 13, 2016 (Linux), Apr 13, 2016 (Mac)

Hero Quest is a Tower-battle in the most literal sense! Defeat waves of enemies as they attempt to overthrow your keep! Wisely deploy your units into the battlefield and use spells to destroy the enemy tower!

Hero Quest: Tower Conflict is an Action, Casual, Indie, and Strategy game released in 2016, priced at $1.99, with an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 owners and Mostly Negative (30% of 332 reviews).

0
playing now
30%
positive of 331 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
30/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 24% of 27,808 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.3k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 331 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.24 at IndieGala Store (2016-05-02) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 8 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020162026Week of 2016-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$1.99$0.242016-04-132026-07-092016-04-13 — best price $0.992016-05-03 — best price $0.242016-08-05 — best price $0.892016-11-29 — best price $0.992017-05-15 — best price $0.492017-08-16 — best price $0.992017-12-21 — best price $0.492018-02-19 — best price $0.992018-07-06 — best price $0.492018-12-19 — best price $0.992019-03-08 — best price $0.492019-07-09 — best price $0.992019-12-01 — best price $0.492020-01-27 — best price $0.992020-10-29 — best price $0.492020-12-01 — best price $0.992021-03-11 — best price $0.492022-01-05 — best price $0.992022-05-11 — best price $1.992022-09-22 — best price $0.992023-01-05 — best price $1.992023-04-14 — best price $0.792023-08-08 — best price $1.992023-12-07 — best price $0.992024-03-18 — best price $1.992024-06-27 — best price $0.992024-11-04 — best price $1.992025-02-26 — best price $0.992025-05-13 — best price $1.992025-09-29 — best price $0.992026-01-05 — best price $1.992026-03-19 — best price $0.992026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

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Player tags

IndieActionCasualStrategy

Census log

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

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