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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.
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
46 of the 69 reviews raise this.
“I'd like to start off by saying this game is enjoyable. However after about 8 hours of gameplay I feel like I already experienced just about everything it has to offer. After the tutorial I played three games. The 1st…”
“Very fun, feels like Heroes of might and magic 2-3.”
“peak game i like the mod that adds ants as a playable faction!”
8 of the 69 reviews raise this.
“Only leaving this review to counteract all the negative reviews saying the "AI cheats hard and steamrolls the game." Huge skill issue on their part. I, the human, steamroll the game. So much so I try to preserve each…”
“Created a grand army. Cleaned most of the map. Last enemy came in 5 different hordes. Got wiped. 10/10”
“i'm not the best at the game but it's easy to atleast get the basic understanding of how to play it”
3 of the 69 reviews raise this.
“A worthy successor to the HoMM genre! Tons of cool factions, heroes, and units. Lots of interesting skills and spells allow for many playstyles and builds. The auto-battler format speeds up games to be playable over an…”
“Great homm-like with great aesthetic.”
3 of the 69 reviews raise this.
“An amazing game at any price”
11 of the 69 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“I'd like to start off by saying this game is enjoyable. However after about 8 hours of gameplay I feel like I already experienced just about everything it has to offer. After the tutorial I played three games. The 1st…”
8 of the 69 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“It was good but there are just too many updates to the game. It was good the way it was and now it's just a bit too streamlined and 'automatic'. Also the HOMM feel disappeared in a recent update when they decided to…”
“I wanted to like it, but didn't find it especially fun. It's an... interesting choice to set up a tutorial in a way that you lose if you don't do it a specific way. It kind of felt like the worst aspects of Heroes of…”
5 of the 69 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“it's pretty allright sequel's coming out tho. so might want to wait for that”
4 of the 69 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
3 of the 69 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“I'd like to start off by saying this game is enjoyable. However after about 8 hours of gameplay I feel like I already experienced just about everything it has to offer. After the tutorial I played three games. The 1st…”
Counted across 69 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 79.4% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“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“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“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 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.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
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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.
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
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
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
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
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 2026-05-12.
| Genres | RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | Turn-Based · Pixel Graphics · Strategy · Singleplayer · Turn-Based Strategy · Fantasy · Auto Battler · Strategy RPG · Turn-Based Tactics · Level Editor · Multiplayer · Procedural Generation (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements |
| Languages | English, Spanish - Spain, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese |
| Achievements | 61 |
| Official site | https://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