The Heroes Around Me
BANGER · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $6.99.
- Length
- 4.5h 5h to 100%
- Value
- $1.55/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 770 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
The Heroes Around Me tells a story of a family of 3: the hard-working and quiet father – Nan, his daughter Lili, and their pet dog Sesame. Players will experience the harshness and warmth in the simpler time of the 1990s, where lots of stories are untold.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
19 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Finding Paradise ($9.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats A Perfect Day ($19.99, scores 61).
More about The Heroes Around Me
Of the 333 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
81% start to 10% 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
What players say
i had a very favourable view of the game because of my high expectations. unfortunately, my experience wasnt good playing it. the game wont even let me exit while the dialogues are running, my biggest gripe with it. and the dialogues take too long and i feel my attention slipping away, although thats a more of a me problem. i do wish people made games with brisker writing. theres also too little gameplay for it to...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
The translation is so poor it cannot be overlooked or given a recommendation. I've seen many games where people complain of translation not being up to par, but this is BY FAR the weakest and most error-ridden game I've played. Spelling errors, random spaces in a word making it two words, bad comprehension of common dialect. It's BADDD. There is no excuse for it. A spell check or AI tool run once through could fix...
Man, did I want to like this game, overall beautiful pixel art (even if the blurred walking animation made my eyes hurt) , nice music, story meant for the feels. Every thing you could possibly want. The major issue is the english translation. Full on conversations not translated! Would not recommend! :(
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Cite this score
The Heroes Around Me scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1768470/the-heroes-around-meReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.