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Hero's Hour

Benjamin "ThingOnItsOwn" Hauer · Goblinz Publishing · 2022-03-01

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

RPGStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jun 12, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 11, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Mar 14, 2025 (PlayStation 5)

A fast turn-based strategy RPG with real-time combat. Develop your cities and armies, level up your heroes to gain new, powerful spells and skills, and explore the wonders and dangers of the procedurally generated maps as you aim to conquer your enemies before they do the same to you.

Hero's Hour is an RPG, Strategy game released in 2022, priced at $17.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (79% of 5742 reviews) and an estimated 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners.

28
playing now
79%
positive of 5.7k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
63/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
3.57★
PlayStation Store rating (195 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$17.99
steam price (US)

28 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 28 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 151 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~19/week).
  • · Review velocity down 41% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,568 reviews).
  • · Top 6% of 13,891 RPG games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 115k–258k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 5,742 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$17.99
Microsoft Store$17.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $5.79 at IndieGala Store (2024-11-25) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $17.99 · on sale 87 of 151 observed days · $12.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.3k1.3k20222026Week of 2022-03-01: 1,265 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 303 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 256 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 90 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 180 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 101 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 230 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

71232026-09-15 13:00 — 34 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 38 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 37 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 58 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 52 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 41 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 39 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 50 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 46 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 46 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 40 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 37 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 31 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 47 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 56 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 23 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 42 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 34 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 32 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 42 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 48 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 28 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 28 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.5k41Mar 2022Aug 2026Mar 2022 — avg 1,466 · peak 4,170May 2022 — avg 293 · peak 813Jul 2022 — avg 165 · peak 323Sep 2022 — avg 111 · peak 284Nov 2022 — avg 181 · peak 410Jan 2023 — avg 205 · peak 380Mar 2023 — avg 367 · peak 690May 2023 — avg 309 · peak 924Jul 2023 — avg 161 · peak 268Sep 2023 — avg 113 · peak 193Nov 2023 — avg 199 · peak 623Jan 2024 — avg 118 · peak 208Mar 2024 — avg 220 · peak 409May 2024 — avg 118 · peak 239Jul 2024 — avg 119 · peak 187Sep 2024 — avg 213 · peak 649Nov 2024 — avg 104 · peak 189Jan 2025 — avg 107 · peak 196Mar 2025 — avg 131 · peak 419May 2025 — avg 102 · peak 208Jul 2025 — avg 75 · peak 127Sep 2025 — avg 109 · peak 230Nov 2025 — avg 69 · peak 146Jan 2026 — avg 84 · peak 142Mar 2026 — avg 47 · peak 79May 2026 — avg 54 · peak 101Jul 2026 — avg 41 · peak 75Aug 2026 — avg 43 · peak 79
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$17.99$1.792022-02-182026-10-142022-02-18 — best price $17.992022-04-14 — best price $17.992022-06-08 — best price $13.492022-07-15 — best price $11.872022-08-22 — best price $11.992022-09-28 — best price $16.172022-11-22 — best price $10.372022-12-23 — best price $8.822023-01-31 — best price $14.712023-03-14 — best price $9.332023-05-08 — best price $8.992023-07-20 — best price $8.992023-09-12 — best price $7.652023-11-04 — best price $17.992023-12-21 — best price $8.992024-02-09 — best price $8.992024-04-02 — best price $17.992024-06-06 — best price $8.992024-08-10 — best price $17.992024-10-07 — best price $17.992024-11-21 — best price $6.482025-01-02 — best price $17.992025-02-20 — best price $6.482025-04-04 — best price $5.992025-08-01 — best price $17.992025-10-07 — best price $7.112025-11-24 — best price $5.792026-01-06 — best price $17.992026-02-26 — best price $17.992026-04-22 — best price $7.192026-06-04 — best price $7.192026-07-22 — best price $17.992026-08-24 — best price $7.202026-09-10 — best price $17.992026-09-25 — best price $7.192026-10-10 — best price $17.992026-10-14 — best price $17.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
41.4%
earned "Greed is Good"
7.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsSteam WorkshopSteam Cloud2 DLC

11 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2022-03-01, latest 2023-03-02 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6,2053%61
PS5 (PlayStation)10412%62
Switch (Nintendo)840%0
Xbox Series (Xbox)555%61

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

2DRPGFantasyStrategyOld SchoolTurn-BasedMultiplayerAuto BattlerLevel EditorSingleplayer

Census log

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

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