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HERO DEFENSE
CREEPS CRUMBLE. HEROES RISE. Command a team of renegade heroes and impale, slash, tear and burn through legions of undead hell-bent on world domination. Your mission: to defeat the world’s most powerful vampire, Count Necrosis.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“Some rewiews mention the game is grindy. This is a big understatement, this is way above the usual TD grindyness. This is the kind of ultra-grind you'd expect from an free game with in app purchase (there is none here). The gameplay is extremely limited and repetitive. Basically…”
— a player, Steam review · 18 hrs played“Do not buy. Achievements are broken. MP servers are closed so not accessible. The least you can do as a courtesy was to remove the no longer obtainable MP achievements? but did you ? NO so I will no longer buy games from this developer.”
— a player, Steam review · 29 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 19:05 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Become a Hero on XBox One and PS4
http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11552132/187e6f070d4e61c6e527353d2a61ef4536a32aa3.png Dear fellow HEROES, Today we have heroic news for you. We recently slowed dow
Become a Hero on XBox One and PS4
http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11552132/187e6f070d4e61c6e527353d2a61ef4536a32aa3.png Dear fellow HEROES, Today we have heroic news for you. We recently slowed dow
Multiplayer Achievements
http://happy-tuesday.com/HauntedIsland/img/Release.png Happy Tuesday! After some deliberation and gaining input from the community, we've decided to turn off most multiplayer achievements . Currently,
Multiplayer Achievements
http://happy-tuesday.com/HauntedIsland/img/Release.png Happy Tuesday! After some deliberation and gaining input from the community, we've decided to turn off most multiplayer achievements . Currently,
The Steam Awards
http://happy-tuesday.com/HauntedIsland/img/steam_awards_vote.png Happy Tuesday, everyone! Have you voted in the Steam Awards? Now's your last chance to vote for HERO DEFENSE in the: “I Thought This Ga
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Indie, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | Tower Defense · Strategy · Indie · Action · RPG · Multiplayer · Zombies · Co-op · Singleplayer · Adventure · Fantasy · Great Soundtrack (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Italian, Portuguese - Portugal * |
| Achievements | 33 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.facebook.com/HeroDefenseHI |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows Vista Processor: Dual Core 1.8GHZ or Single Core 3.0GHZ Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: 512 MB DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 2 GB available space