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The Heroes around Me

OKJOY · 2024-06-14

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view, Text

Releases: Jun 14, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Heroes Around Me tells a story of a family of 3: the hard-working and quiet father – Nan, his daughter Lili, and their pet dog Sesame. Players will experience the harshness and warmth in the simpler time of the 1990s, where lots of stories are untold.

95%
positive of 767 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$6.99
steam price (US)

The background of the story is that the author lived in China in the 1990s. In the gradually well-off era, all kinds of old objects and old shops were perfectly presented in a picture of pixel style. It elaborately depicts the environment of China in the 1990s; every picture was carefully prepared that players can’t help immersing in it. In the concise dialogue with people around you, you can skillfully get a lot of foreshadowing hidden in words; the real emotions come out slowly, and more stories are hidden in every detail of the game. When you tap slowly and relish carefully, you will gradu(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 40 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity down 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (341 reviews).
  • · Top 27% of 15,270 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k35k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 767 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.19 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
33133120242026Week of 2024-06-01: 331 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

9
achievements tracked
80.5%
earned "Like an old friend's coming"
31.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

5 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, Portuguese - Brazil

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-06-14 (Steam store data)

Player tags

RPGDramaIndieRetro1990'sLife SimCinematicEmotionalStory RichExploration

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

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