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Heroes Must Die

Heroic Games · 2016-07-15

Steam

RPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 15, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 15, 2016 (Mac)

Heroes Must Die is an action-RPG with aesthetics inspired by the best roleplaying games of the 16 bit era, with the sophisticated story and design of modern epics. Follow a grand and fun story of trying to break the world and then save it. Combat is easy to learn and difficult to master. Best of all, it's free.

77%
positive of 62 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 57% of 12,501 RPG games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
131320162026Week of 2016-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGRetroComedyStory RichFree to PlayTactical RPGPixel Graphics

Census log

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