Hero's Hour
Fair · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $7.19, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2022. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 3.1h
- Value
- $2.32/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 60% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 60% ($7.19)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 6250 or better DirectX11 compatible graphics card, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
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 drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.19, set in August 2024. 41 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $7.19 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 55 at list, 58 today.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Last Spell ($24.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Gladiator Guild Manager ($14.99, scores 54).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 560 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.1 hours. Doing everything runs 65, 21 times as long.
At 3.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
42% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
48 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 18:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
i got this game when it was free on opera gx a few years ago, and, despite frequent bugs and crashes, i loved it. they seem to have fixed SOME of these, but whenever i try to make custom content i do still crash instantly. i will admit, the gameplay loop does have some amount of interesting decision-making, and it is rather fun. most of the reason i'm reviewing this well is just nostalgia, though. i can't bring...
Balance is all kinds of wonky. Most fights are always "Hard" or "impossible" -- then as you are making progress and actually branching out and building up your town, the enemy will swoop in with death squads of 200+ units and be level 19 while you are like level 10 as obviously they had no problems just dominating their map to get to you. I've come back to the game time and time again and there's some fun here but...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Hero's Hour scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1656780/hero-s-hourReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 19, price as of Oct 1.
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