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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.

Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption is a 2018 Adventure Indie RPG game priced at $29.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 511 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000.

0
playing now
93%
positive of 511 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (19 downloads)
4.60★
PlayStation Store rating (25 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$29.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (52 reviews).
  • · Top 19% of 28,945 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 13k–31k copies

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

Current store prices

GOG$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 68 of 84 observed days · $0.98 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
464620182026Week of 2018-07-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$34.99$8.912018-07-092026-10-152018-07-09 — best price $31.492018-10-27 — best price $19.492018-12-21 — best price $20.992019-07-29 — best price $14.012019-11-18 — best price $29.992020-01-24 — best price $19.792020-06-25 — best price $9.892020-11-23 — best price $11.992021-01-30 — best price $29.992021-06-28 — best price $29.992021-11-29 — best price $29.992022-01-31 — best price $29.992022-03-05 — best price $18.572022-07-07 — best price $29.992022-12-01 — best price $29.992023-03-28 — best price $25.492023-08-22 — best price $29.992023-12-21 — best price $14.992024-02-27 — best price $9.892024-05-15 — best price $29.992024-09-10 — best price $29.992024-11-23 — best price $29.992025-01-24 — best price $9.892025-05-01 — best price $11.992025-09-15 — best price $10.192025-12-03 — best price $29.992026-02-20 — best price $11.992026-05-16 — best price $29.992026-08-25 — best price $9.892026-09-08 — best price $9.892026-09-18 — best price $9.892026-09-28 — best price $9.892026-10-08 — best price $9.892026-10-15 — best price $9.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1512026-06-01 — 6 pageviews2026-06-05 — 7 pageviews2026-06-09 — 10 pageviews2026-06-13 — 6 pageviews2026-06-17 — 5 pageviews2026-06-21 — 8 pageviews2026-06-25 — 7 pageviews2026-06-29 — 3 pageviews2026-07-03 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 7 pageviews2026-07-11 — 6 pageviews2026-07-15 — 8 pageviews2026-07-19 — 11 pageviews2026-07-23 — 5 pageviews2026-07-27 — 10 pageviews2026-07-31 — 2 pageviews2026-08-04 — 10 pageviews2026-08-08 — 13 pageviews2026-08-12 — 4 pageviews2026-08-16 — 1 pageviews2026-08-20 — 10 pageviews2026-08-24 — 9 pageviews2026-08-28 — 5 pageviews2026-09-01 — 3 pageviews2026-09-05 — 10 pageviews2026-09-09 — 3 pageviews2026-09-13 — 11 pageviews2026-09-17 — 10 pageviews2026-09-21 — 11 pageviews2026-09-25 — 10 pageviews2026-09-29 — 11 pageviews2026-10-03 — 13 pageviews2026-10-07 — 5 pageviews2026-10-11 — 8 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
81.2%
earned "Studious"
15.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, French

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2020-04-14 (Steam store data)

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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