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Villagers and Heroes
Enter a magical, 3D fantasy world filled with hundreds of unique locales, immersive lore, and exciting quests -- and it's all free to play. Join thousands of players from around the world, and be part of a one of a kind community.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“I haven't played that many hours (20h) but it seems the game is solid. It doesn't have P2W but it does have an optional sub and the most they have is some Quality of Life services (eg. More inventory/bank space) and the sub isn't that bad but still is optional. Rest is…”
— a player, Steam review · 28 hrs played“A very approachable and polished experience. Looks great, the art style is colorful and the environment design is detailed and coherent. The dialogue is verbose enough to convey what it needs to, without being overly long or hokey. The voice acting is soid as well. Seems there's…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Fun game initially. I played for a couple of years and returned to the game and the mods were real A h-o-l-e-s. Upgraded to RTX 3050 and the game resolution went crazy and was unplayable.”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-23 23:50 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
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.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Patch 5.63 "Sugarsweet" is now live!
Patch Notes 5.63 General Activated Sugarsweet Summit Event Zone New Sugarsweet Rewards: Blue Flufficorn (EZ) Pink Flufficorn (EZ) Blue Saddled Flufficorn (EZ) Pink Saddled Flufficorn (EZ) Rainbow Fluf
Update 5.62 is now live!
Hello, Everyone, We will be bringing the servers down shortly to push a small build with some much needed fixes in it! Servers will be down for about 30 minutes, and we'll run the usual in-game warnin
Patch 5.51 "Twilight Vale" is now live!
Patch Notes 5.51 General The Twilight Vale Event Zone is now active! New Vale Rewards: Thornantler Mount (5 color varieties) Bloomroot Furniture Pack 4 New Pattern Dyes Prisma Boar mount Bug Fixes Fix
Patch 5.49 is now live!
Patch Notes 5.49 Bug Fixes Fixed an issue that prevented players from sending mail to all guild members or all village members. Hopefully fixed an issue that caused crashes when using the `/gshow` com
Patch 5.48
Patch 5.48 New Features Added a GUI to manage guilds. This can be used to view and edit your roster, change the name, edit the colors, add a motto, and write a bulletin. Improvements \ Sorting the bag
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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.
| Genres | Indie, Massively Multiplayer, RPG, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Free to Play · Massively Multiplayer · RPG · Open World · Multiplayer · Indie · Adventure · MMORPG · Crafting · Sandbox · Fantasy · Survival (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Multi-player · MMO · Steam Trading Cards |
| Languages | English, German, Portuguese - Portugal, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Turkish, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Swedish, Simplified Chinese |
| Estimated owners | 500,000 – 1,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://villagersandheroes.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows® 10, 8, 7, Vista, or XP Processor: Intel® Pentium® D or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: On board graphics DirectX: Version 9.0 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 3 GB available space