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The Hero of Kendrickstone

Choice of Games · 2015-03-13

Steam

IndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Mar 12, 2015 (iOS), Mar 13, 2015 (Mac), Mar 13, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 13, 2015 (Linux)

As a wanna-be hero, you must rescue a city held hostage by an evil wizard, and somehow find money to pay your rent! A 240,000-word interactive novel.

78%
positive of 107 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$5.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (55 reviews).
  • · Top 51% of 26,262 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.7k–6.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 107 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2015-03-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
464620152025Week of 2015-03-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$2.992015-03-132026-07-092015-03-13 — best price $2.992015-06-22 — best price $4.992015-12-22 — best price $3.742016-02-12 — best price $4.992016-11-23 — best price $3.742017-01-02 — best price $4.992017-07-05 — best price $6.992017-11-22 — best price $4.892018-01-04 — best price $6.992018-05-08 — best price $5.992018-10-30 — best price $3.892018-11-27 — best price $5.992019-02-04 — best price $3.892019-07-09 — best price $5.992019-10-15 — best price $4.992020-01-23 — best price $2.992020-07-09 — best price $4.992021-02-11 — best price $2.992021-07-08 — best price $4.992021-12-22 — best price $2.992022-07-07 — best price $4.992022-12-22 — best price $2.992023-03-16 — best price $3.952023-07-13 — best price $5.992023-12-21 — best price $3.952024-03-21 — best price $5.992024-11-27 — best price $3.952025-01-02 — best price $5.992025-06-26 — best price $3.952025-10-06 — best price $5.992025-12-18 — best price $3.952026-03-26 — best price $5.992026-07-09 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
92.2%
earned "Leaving Home"
26%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGIndieText-BasedInteractive FictionChoose Your Own Adventure

Census log

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

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