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WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes

WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes

WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes is a challenging turn-based tactical RPG set in an occupied capital during WWII. Pick your heroes. Navigate historic streets. Confront occupiers. And try to survive the 63 days of hell in this historically accurate portrayal of Poles fighting for their city.

Released Oct 2, 2019 Developer Pixelated Milk, Retrovibe Games Publisher Instytut Pamięci Narodowej Platforms Windows Tactical RPGWargameTurn-Based StrategyHistoricalStrategy RPG
View on Steam ↗ Free (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.

65.2%positive1,325 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Great detail and SUPER fun”

— a player, Steam review · 23 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Decent.”

— a player, Steam review · 17 hrs played
Not recommended · 2 found this helpful

“Free and worth every penny (and no more than that). This was a great game. Then the devs had a really bad idea, and turned it into a PVP pile of crap. 63 Days covers much the same territory, and does it a lot better at this point.”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:48 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

1playing at last check
624-hour peak
350all-time peak
0 50 100 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 50 avg · Oct 2019

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.

42achievements
5.5%median completion
1.8%rarest: Spirit of '44
30.9% of players 18.0% of players 17.4% of players 15.4% of players 14.6% of players 14.6% of players 14.6% of players 14.5% of players 14.5% of players 14.5% of players 14.4% of players 12.1% of players 11.5% of players 11.0% of players 9.8% of players 9.4% of players 8.3% of players 8.2% of players 8.0% of players 7.7% of players 6.6% of players 5.5% of players 5.5% of players 5.4% of players 5.4% of players 5.4% of players 5.4% of players 5.0% of players 4.9% of players 4.4% of players 4.0% of players 3.8% of players 3.3% of players 3.3% of players 3.1% of players 3.0% of players 2.9% of players 2.8% of players 2.6% of players 2.6% of players 2.4% of players 1.8% of players 30.9% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
30.9%Sorrow — Lose a character in battle.
18.0%Flawless Victory — Complete a mission with all insurgents at maximum Health.
17.4%Triple Treat — Kill three enemies with a single skill use.
Rarest badges of honor
1.8%Spirit of '44 — Find all historical points of interest.
2.4%Fruit Vendor — Collect every type of Grenade in the game.
2.6%The Ocelot — Collect every type of Revolver in the game.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

Freecurrent · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
Freelowest since tracking began2026-07-25

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

May 10, 2024
WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes - Important Update

Hello, We’d like to share some important information about the upcoming changes in WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes. As per our previous announcement, players who owned WARSAW in their libraries prior to

Mar 06, 2024
WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes - Upcoming changes

Hey everyone, Thank you for all the feedback you’ve been sharing with us since the release of WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes. We’d like to use this opportunity to let you know what the next steps are a

Aug 30, 2023
Patch - 1001

We are releasing the first hotfix for WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes : fixed issue where "Parasol" Soldier's skill, "A Risky Gambit", caused the game to soft-lock during combat upon usage.

Aug 24, 2023
Accessing the Legacy Version

Hey everyone, Yesterday’s launch of the new Free version of WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes was a technically challenging affair. Switching the game live, from one version to another, with a major overh

Aug 23, 2023
WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes

Five years ago WARSAW launched. A game focusing on a history of the city and it’s history that is not as widely recognised as we felt it needs to. WARSAW reached hundreds of thousands of players on di

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresIndie, RPG, Free To Play
Player tagsTactical RPG · Wargame · Turn-Based Strategy · Historical · Strategy RPG · Perma Death · RPG · Difficult · Turn-Based Combat · 2D · Rogue-lite · Party-Based RPG (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Remote Play on Tablet
LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Polish * , Russian *
Achievements42
Estimated owners20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttp://warsawthegame.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 SP1 / 8.1 / 10 64 bit Processor: Intel Core i3 2100 / AMD Phenom II x4 955 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 1 GB VRAM - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 / ATI Radeon HD5800 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 3 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX Compliant