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Heretical
Die. Adapt. Strike back. Climb Sanctora in this brutal Rogue-lite where every death unlocks powers, heroes, and paths to vengeance.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
What reviewers agree on
44 of the 78 reviews raise this.
“It's an interesting roguelite Diablo X Soulslike, but it needs a lot of work. Besides fixing the bugs, the devs really need to work on optimization, camera and especially the movement + hit boxes. Otherwise this won't…”
“Awesome game, had so much fun with it! Even in its current state, I think it could count as a full game, so I don't really understand why people leave negative reviews. Yes, it has some minor, annoying parts, but who…”
18 of the 78 reviews raise this.
“Yeah, Im really enjoying this. Souls-lite (not like) with great rogue like progression system and run diversity. I love that the maps stay the same and have so many little crooks and crannys to explore, find resources…”
14 of the 78 reviews raise this.
“This game isn't perfect, but I love it! The map is incredibly souls coded and the atmosphere is great. The Roguelite aspect on top of it is quite addicting and I keep enjoying coming back for more with a new character…”
“The variety of build options makes the game replayable again and again.”
“Yeah, Im really enjoying this. Souls-lite (not like) with great rogue like progression system and run diversity. I love that the maps stay the same and have so many little crooks and crannys to explore, find resources…”
11 of the 78 reviews raise this.
“This game isn't perfect, but I love it! The map is incredibly souls coded and the atmosphere is great. The Roguelite aspect on top of it is quite addicting and I keep enjoying coming back for more with a new character…”
10 of the 78 reviews raise this.
“So far, definitely recommended. It looks like a blend between Dark Souls with an isometric view like Diablo, and a set of skills that auto-trigger when in combat, like Vampire Survivors. Moreover, this is a rogue-lite.…”
10 of the 78 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“Abandoned in early access state.”
“Dead game, Devs gave up on it.”
“Awesome game, had so much fun with it! Even in its current state, I think it could count as a full game, so I don't really understand why people leave negative reviews. Yes, it has some minor, annoying parts, but who…”
9 of the 78 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“It's an interesting roguelite Diablo X Soulslike, but it needs a lot of work. Besides fixing the bugs, the devs really need to work on optimization, camera and especially the movement + hit boxes. Otherwise this won't…”
“Dark Souls x Diablo 2 x Warm Snow. You must deal with the camera. Very good game. Please, don't be dead.”
9 of the 78 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“It's an interesting roguelite Diablo X Soulslike, but it needs a lot of work. Besides fixing the bugs, the devs really need to work on optimization, camera and especially the movement + hit boxes. Otherwise this won't…”
“This game isn't perfect, but I love it! The map is incredibly souls coded and the atmosphere is great. The Roguelite aspect on top of it is quite addicting and I keep enjoying coming back for more with a new character…”
“Amazing game but I need more. Also wish that when you reached the "end" it didn't kick you out. I still had some unexplored areas I wanted to attend to”
4 of the 78 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Great game. Reminds me of a birds eye view Dark Souls mixed with Diablo. I only wish there was more content, plus it seems like the only really viable class is the archer in my opinion. (Could probably use some better…”
3 of the 78 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Great game. Reminds me of a birds eye view Dark Souls mixed with Diablo. I only wish there was more content, plus it seems like the only really viable class is the archer in my opinion. (Could probably use some better…”
“Amazing game but I need more. Also wish that when you reached the "end" it didn't kick you out. I still had some unexplored areas I wanted to attend to”
Counted across 78 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 84.9% positive rating · as of 2026-05-14
“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“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“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 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.
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
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
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
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
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 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Action Roguelike · Rogue-lite · Replay Value · Action RPG · Hack and Slash · Souls-like · Singleplayer · Dark Fantasy · Isometric · Controller · Stylized (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Serbian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish |
| Achievements | 92 |
| Official site | https://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