Heretic's Fork
Fair · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.7h
- Value
- $1.49/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($4.99)
- Last discount ended
- 9 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 4-compliant onboard graphics, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Dear candidate, we are pleased to invite you to take up the position of manager of Hell. You will punish sinners by using our deck-building computer system to construct hellish towers capable of keeping the endless hordes of the underworld in check. Best of luck!
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
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was June 2024. It has been discounted 29 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 36 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ratropolis ($17.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Overdungeon ($14.99, scores 51).
Of the 755 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 253 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 6.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 30, 4.5 times as much.
The drop-off
74% start to 68% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
14 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 12:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
While I do think this game is good enough to recommend, for the 18 hours I have played I have been more frustrated with the game's HEAVY reliance on RNG. There is no way I have found yet that lets you take cards out of your deck so the more cards you have, the more unlikely it gets for you to get the cards you actually want which gets even worse for Garrisons since the vast majority of the cards in the game favor...
Fun, strategic but slow paced. Could do with a few even faster speed-up timers. Really nice music. Good pace of unlocks with some excellent characters / cards locked behind the harder tasks. Some tasks, like the 180% garrison speed, should be done early before the card pool fills up too much, as these become a lot harder later on. This one needs you to pick a single 5-cost blue 3 times with the level-end bonus, or 8...
The game is decent, take me around 42h to get all the achievement and that's my review; Good Points : - Mini-Games - Change compared to other deckbuilder/roguelike - Satisfaction when you make a good combo - Gameplay (sounds logic) - Character design - "Background" while in game - Lore - Progression are smooth Bad points : - That's not balance, Garnison legit suck except if you go full Hellfire Kamikaze with Range...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Heretic's Fork scores 62/100 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/2181610/heretic-s-forkReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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