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Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption cover art

Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption

Transolar Games · 2018-07-10

SteamGOGPlayStation Store

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 09, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 10, 2018 (Mac), Jul 10, 2018 (Linux), Jul 10, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 24, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Apr 24, 2025 (PlayStation 4)

Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption is a humorous fantasy role-playing adventure game by Lori and Corey Cole, creators of the acclaimed Quest for Glory series. As the Rogue Shawn O'Conner, players will make friends, explore a haunted castle, and use their Rogue skills for fun and profit.

0
playing now
93%
positive of 511 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
$29.99
steam price (US)

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

Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption is a 2018 adventure role-playing game by the creators of Quest for Glory, Lori Cole and Corey Cole, developed with a custom Unity engine. It is based on the School for Heroes, the defunct e-mail based web game the Coles had created previously. It was released for Windows, Mac, and Linux on July 10, 2018.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 40% of 11,486 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 13k–31k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 511 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$9.89-67%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.89-67%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $8.91 at FireFlower (2022-06-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 28 of 43 observed days · $0.98 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 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 — 1 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 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

$34.99$8.912018-07-092026-08-302018-07-09 — best price $31.492018-10-08 — best price $34.992018-11-06 — best price $34.992019-05-16 — best price $18.822019-09-16 — best price $29.992019-11-18 — best price $29.992020-01-02 — best price $29.992020-04-06 — best price $29.992020-08-24 — best price $20.052020-12-01 — best price $29.992021-01-30 — best price $29.992021-06-09 — best price $14.992021-11-01 — best price $29.992021-12-22 — best price $14.992022-02-12 — best price $19.282022-03-05 — best price $18.572022-06-23 — best price $9.892022-11-04 — best price $29.992022-12-31 — best price $18.852023-04-22 — best price $22.192023-08-22 — best price $29.992023-11-29 — best price $29.992024-02-06 — best price $9.892024-03-21 — best price $29.992024-06-13 — best price $29.992024-09-10 — best price $29.992024-11-05 — best price $29.992025-01-02 — best price $29.992025-03-15 — best price $29.992025-06-10 — best price $14.992025-09-15 — best price $10.192025-11-19 — best price $14.992026-01-26 — best price $10.002026-03-19 — best price $9.902026-06-02 — best price $29.992026-08-25 — best price $9.892026-08-30 — best price $9.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1612026-06-01 — 6 pageviews2026-06-04 — 3 pageviews2026-06-07 — 7 pageviews2026-06-10 — 8 pageviews2026-06-13 — 6 pageviews2026-06-16 — 9 pageviews2026-06-19 — 7 pageviews2026-06-22 — 9 pageviews2026-06-25 — 7 pageviews2026-06-28 — 14 pageviews2026-07-01 — 11 pageviews2026-07-04 — 6 pageviews2026-07-07 — 7 pageviews2026-07-10 — 10 pageviews2026-07-13 — 9 pageviews2026-07-16 — 7 pageviews2026-07-19 — 11 pageviews2026-07-22 — 2 pageviews2026-07-25 — 4 pageviews2026-07-28 — 2 pageviews2026-07-31 — 2 pageviews2026-08-03 — 7 pageviews2026-08-06 — 6 pageviews2026-08-09 — 5 pageviews2026-08-12 — 4 pageviews2026-08-15 — 16 pageviews2026-08-18 — 9 pageviews2026-08-21 — 8 pageviews2026-08-24 — 9 pageviews2026-08-27 — 8 pageviews2026-08-29 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, French

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4412%20
PS5 (PlayStation)2114%21
PS4 (PlayStation)20%21

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

Player tags

RPGIndieRetroComedyFantasyAdventureIsometricSteampunkOld SchoolStory Rich

Census log

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

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