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Hero's Quest

Murilobast · 2023-03-16

Steam

CasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 16, 2023 (Mac), Mar 16, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Simple Roguelite RPG game with incremental progress

Hero's Quest is a 2023 Casual, Indie, RPG, and Strategy game priced at $3.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (82% of 222 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000.

4
playing now
82%
positive of 222 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$3.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (62 reviews).
  • · Top 20% of 29,056 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.4k–10.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 222 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
565620232026Week of 2023-03-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-09-15 04:00 — 3 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 4 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 4 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 4 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 6 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 3 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 5 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
672Mar 2023Aug 2026Mar 2023 — avg 67 · peak 127May 2023 — avg 13 · peak 38Jul 2023 — avg 8 · peak 24Sep 2023 — avg 6 · peak 18Nov 2023 — avg 12 · peak 43Jan 2024 — avg 7 · peak 20Mar 2024 — avg 14 · peak 44May 2024 — avg 7 · peak 15Jul 2024 — avg 13 · peak 28Sep 2024 — avg 12 · peak 26Nov 2024 — avg 6 · peak 15Jan 2025 — avg 6 · peak 15Mar 2025 — avg 12 · peak 28May 2025 — avg 8 · peak 21Jul 2025 — avg 5 · peak 14Sep 2025 — avg 3 · peak 8Nov 2025 — avg 4 · peak 11Jan 2026 — avg 5 · peak 16Mar 2026 — avg 4 · peak 8May 2026 — avg 4 · peak 11Jul 2026 — avg 2 · peak 6Aug 2026 — avg 2 · peak 9
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Completion

54
achievements tracked
92.7%
earned "A little Pocket Change"
43.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportIn-App PurchasesSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Spain, Korean, French, German, Japanese, Polish

Player tags

2DPvERPGRetroCasualLinearFantasyTop-DownControllerRogue-like

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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