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Hero's Hour

Hero's Hour

A fast turn-based strategy RPG with real-time combat. Develop your cities and armies, level up your heroes to gain new, powerful spells and skills, and explore the wonders and dangers of the procedurally generated maps as you aim to conquer your enemies before they do the same to you.

Released Mar 1, 2022 Developer Benjamin "ThingOnItsOwn" Hauer Publisher Goblinz Publishing, Maple Whispering Limited Platforms Windows Turn-BasedPixel GraphicsStrategySingleplayerTurn-Based Strategy
View on Steam ↗ $7.19 (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.

79.8%positive5,369 reviews
Recommended · 5 found this helpful

“Not bad. Not great. I've gotten my fair share of fun with it. The big selling points of the game are: -The sheer quantity of factions, units, heroes, talents, and spells. -Games go by relatively quickly since the economy and city building is very simple, and battles are mostly…”

— a player, Steam review · 38 hrs played
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“If you have ever played Heroes of Might and Magic 3, you know what you're getting into. Some gameplay mechanics are new, some old, a good game imo. I haven't played mp or co-op.”

— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played
Not recommended · 15 found this helpful

“Update (April 23rd): The developer response claims that they've released a Linux version, but upon re-testing with Proton disabled and a fresh Linux OS install, no executable or game files were downloaded. SteamDB confirms the Linux depot remains unused since September 2022.…”

— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:48 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

48playing at last check
5824-hour peak
4,170all-time peak
0 1k 2k 2023 2024 2025 2026 1.5k avg · Mar 2022

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.

61achievements
7.3%median completion
1.4%rarest: Completionist
41.5% of players 40.6% of players 37.6% of players 36.3% of players 34.1% of players 29.6% of players 28.8% of players 27.4% of players 26.5% of players 25.5% of players 23.2% of players 20.1% of players 16.9% of players 15.7% of players 13.1% of players 12.9% of players 12.2% of players 12.0% of players 11.7% of players 10.9% of players 10.8% of players 9.0% of players 8.9% of players 8.5% of players 8.4% of players 7.8% of players 7.7% of players 7.6% of players 7.5% of players 7.4% of players 7.3% of players 7.2% of players 7.0% of players 7.0% of players 6.9% of players 6.5% of players 6.4% of players 6.1% of players 5.9% of players 5.8% of players 5.8% of players 5.6% of players 5.6% of players 5.4% of players 5.4% of players 5.1% of players 4.7% of players 4.4% of players 4.2% of players 3.8% of players 3.7% of players 3.7% of players 3.3% of players 3.0% of players 2.9% of players 2.4% of players 2.4% of players 2.4% of players 2.2% of players 2.1% of players 41.5% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
41.5%Greed is Good — Acquire a treasure elemental
40.6%First Win — Win an Easy difficulty game
37.6%Archmage — Learn an adventure map spell at an Archmage Tribunal
Rarest badges of honor
1.4%Completionist — Achieve 95% of all achievements
2.1%Scrying — Find an obelisk treasure with just 1 clue
2.2%Puzzle Master — Win a game on Hardcore+ and with hamlet starting conditions

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.

$7.19−60% right nowcurrent · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$17.99base price
$7.19lowest since tracking began2026-07-23
US7.19 USD−60%
EU5.99 EUR−60%
UK5.99 GBP−60%
Australia10.38 AUD−60%
Canada8.19 CAD−60%
Japan736 JPY−60%
Brazil13.99 BRL−60%
China27.20 CNY−60%

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

Brazil≈$2.8 China Japan Canada EU US Australia UK≈$8.0

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

$0 $10 $20 07-11 07-13 07-16 07-19 07-22 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.

Dec 12, 2025
Hero's Hour 2 is coming!

It's been a long road since the Hero's Hour v2.0 update brought us to steam, and it's been some wonderful years of post-launch support. But recently, I've been putting together a team and started work

Sep 05, 2025
Update v2.8.2 and Songs of Conquest Crossover

Some time ago, I started talking to a representative of Lava Potion studios - the team that made the excellent game, Songs of Conquest, one of the closest family members of Hero’s Hour, if we talk abo

Apr 21, 2025
Hero's Hour Joins Strategems and Gets a Minor Update!

Hero's Hour is part of Strategems 2025, an event dedicated to affordable and highly replayable strategy games, with a 60% discount and a minor update out now: the v2.8.1b update! https://store.steampo

Mar 31, 2025
The Building Planner and v2.8.1

The Release of the Homestead update went really well, overall. But the size of the update does seem to have led some parts of the update to have been done a bit sloppily. So I’m quickly working on a v

Mar 21, 2025
v2.8 - The Homestead update out now!

The game is currently on sale on its own, as well as in a bundle together with our long-respected comrade game of Songs of Conquest. Additionally, the v2.8.0 Homestead update is also releasing today.

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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.

GenresRPG, Strategy
Player tagsTurn-Based · Pixel Graphics · Strategy · Singleplayer · Turn-Based Strategy · Fantasy · Auto Battler · Strategy RPG · Turn-Based Tactics · Level Editor · Multiplayer · Procedural Generation (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements
LanguagesEnglish, Spanish - Spain, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese
Achievements61
Estimated owners500,000 – 1,000,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttps://goblinzstudio.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Microsoft 64bit Windows 7 or younger Processor: Dual-core 2Ghz CPU Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6250 or better DirectX11 compatible graphics card DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 100 MB available space