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Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story

Agate · PQube · 2018-10-02

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ActionAdventureIndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 02, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 28, 2018 (PlayStation 4), Oct 02, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Build a school for RPG heroes in a mix of simulation and role-play adventure. As Principal of a school for the warriors and mages of the future, you must build your Academy to train the best in the land. Place and upgrade facilities, form teams of the best students and send them out on epic quests!

Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story is an Action, Adventure, Indie, and RPG game released in 2018, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (58% of 364 reviews).

1
playing now
58%
positive of 364 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
3.84★
PlayStation Store rating (669 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story is a video game developed by Agate and published by pQube. It combines gameplay from management sims and role-playing video games. Players run a school that teaches adventurers, who eventually go on quests.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 67% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (111 reviews).
  • · Top 23% of 27,701 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 9.1k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 364 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.89 at Steam (2024-09-12) · bundled 8×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 61 of 94 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
686820182026Week of 2018-10-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.122018-10-022026-08-242018-10-02 — best price $13.482018-12-17 — best price $12.592019-03-27 — best price $9.442019-07-05 — best price $9.492019-09-17 — best price $8.772019-11-30 — best price $13.192020-01-24 — best price $14.992020-04-01 — best price $14.992020-06-09 — best price $12.482020-08-06 — best price $7.502020-10-31 — best price $11.992020-12-22 — best price $5.992021-02-12 — best price $7.992021-04-16 — best price $13.492021-07-30 — best price $6.752021-09-30 — best price $5.252021-11-27 — best price $14.992022-01-27 — best price $3.742022-04-25 — best price $14.992022-08-08 — best price $2.242022-10-08 — best price $13.172022-12-30 — best price $14.992023-04-10 — best price $14.992023-07-21 — best price $7.232023-11-01 — best price $3.742024-01-31 — best price $13.482024-04-04 — best price $14.992024-07-01 — best price $3.752024-10-10 — best price $1.492025-01-11 — best price $14.992025-04-03 — best price $1.492025-06-03 — best price $14.992025-08-14 — best price $1.492025-11-03 — best price $1.492026-01-06 — best price $14.992026-03-17 — best price $1.502026-05-19 — best price $12.632026-08-10 — best price $11.692026-08-24 — best price $1.17
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1612026-05-30 — 5 pageviews2026-06-03 — 9 pageviews2026-06-07 — 4 pageviews2026-06-11 — 5 pageviews2026-06-15 — 4 pageviews2026-06-19 — 6 pageviews2026-06-23 — 5 pageviews2026-06-27 — 5 pageviews2026-07-01 — 7 pageviews2026-07-05 — 2 pageviews2026-07-09 — 7 pageviews2026-07-13 — 6 pageviews2026-07-17 — 4 pageviews2026-07-21 — 8 pageviews2026-07-25 — 4 pageviews2026-07-29 — 12 pageviews2026-08-02 — 4 pageviews2026-08-06 — 5 pageviews2026-08-10 — 3 pageviews2026-08-14 — 7 pageviews2026-08-18 — 3 pageviews2026-08-22 — 9 pageviews2026-08-26 — 4 pageviews2026-08-30 — 7 pageviews2026-09-03 — 7 pageviews2026-09-07 — 10 pageviews2026-09-11 — 5 pageviews2026-09-15 — 10 pageviews2026-09-19 — 7 pageviews2026-09-23 — 5 pageviews2026-09-27 — 2 pageviews2026-10-01 — 5 pageviews2026-10-05 — 5 pageviews2026-10-09 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
60%
earned "Invulnerable"
15.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)1,86031%30
Steam (Steam)4470%30
PS4 (PlayStation)8841%30
Switch (Nintendo)170%0
PS4 (PlayStation)1354%30
PS4 (PlayStation)1030%30
Switch (Nintendo)30%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGJRPGAnimeFunnyActionFantasyStrategyTop-DownAdventureSwordplay

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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