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Heretic's Fork
Dear candidate, we are pleased to invite you to take up the position of manager of Hell. You will punish sinners by using our deck-building computer system to construct hellish towers capable of keeping the endless hordes of the underworld in check. Best of luck!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
45 of the 92 reviews raise this.
“Don't listen to the bad reviews, people are just bad at the game! I played through all of the torment levels (yes, even the later ones) with all different builds. This game is genuinely one of my favorite roguelites to…”
“An addictive reverse bullet hell deck building... thing. The game has an amazing soundtrack, a wonderful visual theme, and a simple but engaging story. The gameplay loop is a tad to dependent on what cards you randomly…”
“Mostly fun, occassionally frustrating, fairly grindy. Different builds are possible but differ widely in potential and reliability. Love the soundtrack and the lore/minigame around it are fun. Would love if there would…”
22 of the 92 reviews raise this.
“Don't listen to the bad reviews, people are just bad at the game! I played through all of the torment levels (yes, even the later ones) with all different builds. This game is genuinely one of my favorite roguelites to…”
“10/10 luv this game, completed it but still play :3 fire soundtrack, made a playlist so I could listen to it whenever I want!!!! judgement + sawblade = ദ്ദി(ᵔᗜᵔ) <3”
“An addictive reverse bullet hell deck building... thing. The game has an amazing soundtrack, a wonderful visual theme, and a simple but engaging story. The gameplay loop is a tad to dependent on what cards you randomly…”
14 of the 92 reviews raise this.
“This is very strange TD game. It is artistically made, which I like, but as a game, it is not my "cup of tea". It has one central turret base and tower from where you fight. It is, as far as I can tell, heavily luck…”
“An addictive reverse bullet hell deck building... thing. The game has an amazing soundtrack, a wonderful visual theme, and a simple but engaging story. The gameplay loop is a tad to dependent on what cards you randomly…”
“A great Tower Defense, with a killer style and soundtrack your gonna want to turn up not off.”
13 of the 92 reviews raise this.
“Don't listen to the bad reviews, people are just bad at the game! I played through all of the torment levels (yes, even the later ones) with all different builds. This game is genuinely one of my favorite roguelites to…”
“10/10 luv this game, completed it but still play :3 fire soundtrack, made a playlist so I could listen to it whenever I want!!!! judgement + sawblade = ദ്ദി(ᵔᗜᵔ) <3”
“An addictive reverse bullet hell deck building... thing. The game has an amazing soundtrack, a wonderful visual theme, and a simple but engaging story. The gameplay loop is a tad to dependent on what cards you randomly…”
7 of the 92 reviews raise this.
“Excellent deck based tower defence game. A unique art style, and it opens up at a steady pace. I enjoyed finishing the shift with the interm. But after that hackers ruined the RNG and nullified weapon spawns and stats.…”
“One of the few games that really broke the mold for deck-builders for me! Generally not a big fan of tower-defense games either, yet I keep coming back to this one. The face-melting soundtrack, the variety of towers and…”
“Perfection in all aspects, synced +20h in it, trying all the characters and unlocking most of the content. The game is very polished, and the build variety is great. The art style and music are top-notch; nothing to…”
17 of the 92 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“While the gamebreaking bug introduced in the last update has now been fixed, the game unfortunately still stands as one of the most annoying rogue-lites that I've played, due to it's bloated card system and the way it…”
“[h1] Kind of like auto battler where cards are used to boost things up in turn based gameplay. Boring and monotonous to be honest. [/h1]”
“Decent idea but poor execution. A lot of the towers are useless because the enemy health scales so wildly you are getting nearly 7000 hp in the final mobs. And half the towers do not scale to that at all. I only really…”
14 of the 92 reviews raise this · 10 of them still recommend the game.
“Decent idea but poor execution. A lot of the towers are useless because the enemy health scales so wildly you are getting nearly 7000 hp in the final mobs. And half the towers do not scale to that at all. I only really…”
“Concept is good, some of the towers and garrisons are fun to play, but honestly it felt pretty boring as I was unlocking more cards, and the rng aspect of getting worse cards as the price increased sucked. Plus the…”
8 of the 92 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“While the gamebreaking bug introduced in the last update has now been fixed, the game unfortunately still stands as one of the most annoying rogue-lites that I've played, due to it's bloated card system and the way it…”
“Mostly fun, occassionally frustrating, fairly grindy. Different builds are possible but differ widely in potential and reliability. Love the soundtrack and the lore/minigame around it are fun. Would love if there would…”
“Concept is good, some of the towers and garrisons are fun to play, but honestly it felt pretty boring as I was unlocking more cards, and the rng aspect of getting worse cards as the price increased sucked. Plus the…”
7 of the 92 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“While the gamebreaking bug introduced in the last update has now been fixed, the game unfortunately still stands as one of the most annoying rogue-lites that I've played, due to it's bloated card system and the way it…”
“Meh, probably just not my cup of tea. Rounds take too long even on high speed and very repetitive.”
“Fun, unique card-based rogue-lite with an interesting corporate horror aesthetic. My only complaint is that the 4 highest difficulties (Torment II through V) require a specific tower/card combination to win (check game…”
6 of the 92 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“This game is now unplayable, I use to love loading up this game but it is so slow and buggy that I have now been forced to delete it from my installed games. There is absolutely no reason a game should be this buggy and…”
“Excellent deck based tower defence game. A unique art style, and it opens up at a steady pace. I enjoyed finishing the shift with the interm. But after that hackers ruined the RNG and nullified weapon spawns and stats.…”
“Me gusta, es realmente un buen juego, pero en el modo infinito crashea por la hora y media”
Counted across 92 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 84.9% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“Since I see more negative reviews than I expected I will leave this positive one. It's a fun little game with lots of unlocks. The vibes are great: good music, great style, lots of little interactions in your in-game desktop. It has a lot of personality, as mentioned in almost…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“fun but gets boring pretty quick, haven't played enough to unlock higher difficulties but the first one is just a joke once you know what you're doing, and each run consists of staring at your screen while you click upgrades every once in a while”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“I really wanted to like this game and it does have potential... but unfortunately it has a lot of issues. 1) No display on how much luck you have. 2)No idea how many "Rocks" you've played. 3) No way of measuring the amount of multipliers (this is especially lazy since they put…”
— a player, Steam review · 63 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Hotfix 08/03/26
Fixed an issue from the previous patch that caused enemy speed to be much faster than expected. Cheers, Stevie
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Strategy |
| Player tags | Deckbuilding · Tower Defense · Arcade · Strategy · Card Game · Action · Roguelike Deckbuilder · 2D · Bullet Hell · Tactical · Rogue-lite · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French * , German * , Simplified Chinese * , Japanese * , Spanish - Spain * , Portuguese - Portugal * , Traditional Chinese * , Russian * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 29 |
| Official site | https://hereticsforkgame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Microsoft 64bit Windows 10 Processor: 64bit Intel compatible Dual Core CPU Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 4-compliant onboard graphics DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space