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Next Up Hero cover art

Next Up Hero

Digital Continue · 2018-06-28

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ActionRPG

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

Releases: Aug 16, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 28, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 28, 2018 (Mac), Jun 28, 2018 (Xbox One), Jun 28, 2018 (PlayStation 4)

Fight. Die. Win! (And probably die some more.) There are no health kits. Sorry!

54%
positive of 182 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
74/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)
Next Up Hero is an action dungeon crawl video game developed by New York indie studio Digital Continue and published by Aspyr. It was released for Steam Early Access on January 18, 2018, with a full release on June 28, 2018 alongside the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions. It was released for Nintendo Switch on August 16, 2018.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 300% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (35 reviews).
  • · Top 43% of 17,773 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.5k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 182 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.80 at GreenManGaming (2019-04-10) · bundled 15×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days · $19.19 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320182026Week of 2018-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
49.7%
earned "Impatient"
4.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2018-07-05 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DRPGCo-opActionIsometricBeat 'em upBullet HellEarly AccessOnline Co-OpDungeon Crawler

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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