Hero Tale
Skip · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 22, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 43h 300h to 100%
- Value
- $0.12/hr
- Reviews
- 69% of 429 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 175 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
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
About the game
A relaxing auto-battler running in the background. Watch your combat experience grow and occasionally develop the massive skill tree and upgrade your equipment to explore secrets of the island.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DX10, DX11, DX12 capable, 696 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 10 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 25 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 84 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Dragon Cliff ($1.99, scores 77) and Megaloot ($9.99, scores 29) both outscore it.
More about Hero Tale
This site sampled 421 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to August 2026.
HowLongToBeat players log 43 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 300, 7.0 times as much.
The drop-off
89% start to 39% 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
What players say
Hero Tale is fun, engaging, and genuinely interesting during the first few playthroughs. Unfortunately, it is also unfinished, will most likely remain unfinished, and becomes painfully stretched out once you reach the later runs. During your first playthrough, it works well as an idle game. You place your hero somewhere where the income is higher than the cost of consumables, gain levels, develop skills, farm better...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Good game if u like slow ones. Nice story characters and items. First run is slow but after the first one it gets better. best advice: save bb arrows for prince.Would recommend.
the pros its good to kill time the cons no respect system except once at level 15 after that you re ducked takes forever to get anywhere, see my hours currently at level 84 and still unable to beat certain areas because i dont do enough damage there you HAVE to go ranged ideally magic because that deals most damage wanting to go melee or archer? too bad you wont deal enough damage but wait there is more you kinda...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Hero Tale scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2513240/hero-taleReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.