One Way Heroics
Worth it · Roguelike · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.49. Typically $1.08 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour
- $1.59/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 4,165
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 2.2h
- To 100%
- 35.2h 16.0x the story
- Finish
- 8% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 59
Price and sales
- Sales
- 117 on record
- Typical cut
- 69% off
- Steam low
- $0.69 June 2015
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 13 now
- Cheaper than
- 91% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
69% start to 3% rarestA 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
The value story
The value story
117 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 69 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games closest to it, Elin ($19.99, scores 78) and Tangledeep ($14.99, scores 53) both come in lower.
More about One Way Heroics
This site sampled 354 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 531 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 2.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 35, 16 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This is a great game if you like impossible, inescapable battles; futile attempts at moving forward; and a general sense of failure over and over and over. If you like getting kicked in the teeth repeatedly, this is the game for you!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Mystery dungeon as a roguelike (the item smuggling mechanic would argue this is a roguelite) where you have to keep moving to the right as the world dissapears. An interesting concept, a different experience, but after beating the game in just under 2 hours I personally have no interest in picking it up again. Pick it up if you catch it for a dollar.
An addictive little game, with a lot of variety, multiple characters and endings despite its simplicity. The roguelike nature can make it a little frustrating to get the needed events or items required to progress a particular plotline, but the dimensional vault letting you transfer items between runs helps mitigate that.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Across all dimensions, the only constant is Darkness! A procedurally generated RPG-roguelike journey across the multiverse! In One Way Heroics, you take on the role of an intrepid adventurer who must travel across the land and face the Demon Lord before a mysterious darkness engulfs everything.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 800x600 resolution or higher, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
One Way Heroics scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/266210/one-way-heroicsReviews 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 Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.