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Heretical

Heretical

Die. Adapt. Strike back. Climb Sanctora in this brutal Rogue-lite where every death unlocks powers, heroes, and paths to vengeance.

Released Oct 30, 2024 Developer Three Swords Studio Publisher Ultimate Games S.A., Ultimate Publishing Platforms Windows Early AccessAction RoguelikeRogue-liteReplay ValueAction RPG
View on Steam ↗ $14.99 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

93.7%positive443 reviews
Recommended · 5 found this helpful

“Cons: I suspect character descriptions were AI generated Pros: holy cows the game is skill based. Yeah, the first three hours aren't giving a good enough impression of what this game has in store and I think a lot of people will get a refund because of how little content the…”

— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“Great game. I wish they would let you keep your gear after defeating the campaign instead of starting over with nothing. As many have said the random camera movement is annoying as hell. The archer and beast tamer class are insanely overpowered compared to the knight, mage, and…”

— a player, Steam review · 83 hrs played
Not recommended · 28 found this helpful

“Dead game, Devs gave up on it. While they were active they did not spend time fixing bugs and game issues like terrible targeting, camera is crap, sound is crap from day 1, game balancing and spent their time too slowly adding in some content, basically they had no internal road…”

— a player, Steam review · 48 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 10:21 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

11playing at last check
1424-hour peak
244all-time peak
0 100 200 2025 2026 107 avg · Jul 2025

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

92achievements
24.5%median completion
4.2%rarest: Unstable Power
90.2% of players 66.3% of players 61.2% of players 55.2% of players 54.5% of players 54.4% of players 54.0% of players 51.7% of players 50.5% of players 48.8% of players 48.7% of players 48.0% of players 47.4% of players 47.4% of players 46.6% of players 46.5% of players 45.7% of players 43.0% of players 42.8% of players 42.0% of players 41.5% of players 40.8% of players 39.4% of players 38.7% of players 37.3% of players 36.9% of players 35.2% of players 33.8% of players 33.2% of players 33.1% of players 33.1% of players 33.0% of players 33.0% of players 32.3% of players 31.5% of players 31.4% of players 31.2% of players 29.6% of players 28.7% of players 28.7% of players 28.4% of players 27.8% of players 27.2% of players 26.5% of players 25.8% of players 25.7% of players 24.5% of players 23.9% of players 23.5% of players 21.2% of players 20.0% of players 19.1% of players 19.1% of players 18.5% of players 18.3% of players 17.0% of players 16.9% of players 16.6% of players 16.4% of players 15.7% of players 90.2% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
90.2%Beginning of the End — Hidden achievement
66.3%Arrow for Hire — Hidden achievement
61.2%Collector of Hearts — Hidden achievement
Rarest badges of honor
4.2%Unstable Power — Hidden achievement
4.5%The Flow of Stars — Hidden achievement
4.6%A Skull for Skull — Hidden achievement

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.

$14.99current · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$14.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-11
US14.99 USD
EU14.79 EUR
UK12.79 GBP
Australia21.95 AUD
Canada19.49 CAD
Japan1,700 JPY
Brazil46.99 BRL
China58.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$8.6 Brazil Japan Canada US Australia EU UK≈$17

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $10 $20 07-11 07-14 07-17 07-20 07-23 07-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jun 05, 2026
Heretical Early Access Patch Notes v0.3.2.202606050911

New patch for Ealy Access just released - v0.3.2.202606050911 Changes Introduced level streaming - big part of the world has been optimized in such a way that it's loaded when you're nearby, boosting

Oct 09, 2025
Heretical Early Access Patch Notes v0.3.2.202510091859

New patch for Early Access just released - 0.3.2.202510091859Changes:Potions bought from potion stands now last twice as long.Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that caused the game to sometimes crash when stunning

Oct 07, 2025
Heretical Update: The Alchemist - v0.3.2.202510071748

Greetings, lost souls!A new update for Heretical is live!And with this one, we're releasing a new playable class.The AlchemistAlchemist has a unique class ability - Alchemy - which allows you to colle

Sep 08, 2025
Chronicles of Heresy #7

Greetings, lost souls!Heretical Steam Community Items are now available! Players can start collecting a full set of trading cards, featuring characters like Aelar Thorne, Harald, Oswald, Ruvius, Sethi

Aug 07, 2025
Hotfix - v0.3.1.202508071919

Fixed a bug that caused the game to freeze when trying to view unique items while having +1 (or more) to all skills.

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Early Access
Player tagsEarly Access · Action Roguelike · Rogue-lite · Replay Value · Action RPG · Hack and Slash · Souls-like · Singleplayer · Dark Fantasy · Isometric · Controller · Stylized (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Serbian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish
Achievements92
Estimated owners20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttps://three-swords.com/heretical/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 or newer, 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD FX-8350 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 580 / AMD HD 7870 Storage: 1 GB available space