Half Minute Hero: The Second Coming
Worth it · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 17.6h 37.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.57/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 562 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1306 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
The world's speediest homage/roast to JRPGs! Can you save the world in 30 seconds? Get a quest, find those in need, fight through dungeons, earn cash, get cool loot and level up until YOU>EVIL. Don't have enough time? Pay the Goddess to reset the clock and try again! Over 100 mini-JRPGs for you to test your might with!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 2000 or equivalent, 799 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 49 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 187 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling ($19.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Evoland 2 ($19.99, scores 68).
More about Half Minute Hero: The Second Coming
79 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Finishing takes 17.6 hours; clearing it takes 38, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
14% start to 4% 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
An incredible followup to an already incredible game, well worth sinking hours and hours into trying for good times in time attack, finding any secrets in the story, or going for a new high score in infinite mode. You cannot go wrong with Half-Minute Hero if you had any love for the first game or old JRPGs
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
HALF MINMUTE HERO II: SECOND COMING is as fun as the game that came before it on PSP. For those unaware, its basically DRAGON QUEST/FF1 on steroids. The golddigger THOT Time Goddess charge you money like a b****, in exchange for cutting your grinding and rewinding time. After all, every bosses have the SPELL OF DESTRUCTION which will wipe the world off in 3O SECONDS! So you NEED her services. <3 You do quests, earn...
KAMGUSTA'S MINI REVIEW I had high expectations for this one, but game failed on delivering. It's not "30 seconds", as the core gameplay is finding ways to reset your clock counter, multiple times. And it is not "RPG", as it is divided in dozen stories ("quests"), every one starting from scratch - you also can't upgrade stats, manage battles or do whatever you are supposed to do in a RPG. I'd call it a puzzle game...
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Cite this score
Half Minute Hero: The Second Coming scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/240970/half-minute-hero-the-second-comingReviews 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.