Idle Hero TD - Tower Defense RPG

Idle Hero TD - Tower Defense RPG

Skip · RPG · 2024 · Early Access

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.

Price
Free to play
Reviews
83% positive
Length
No data
no length in our data yet
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
83%
1,321 reviews, as of Sep 27
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Endless Idle Tower Defense with deep strategy and RPG progression and combat mechanics. Recruit, upgrade, and position powerful fantasy heroes, discover game-changing synergies, and survive infinite monster waves. Grow stronger every run with literally millions of upgrades and endless auto battles.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
  • Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews83% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 82% after the small-sample adjustment
MonetizationIn-app purchases
Steam lists in-app purchases and nothing more is known, so a small haircut
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

Value puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 81 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Where Winds Meet (free, scores 50) beats it on value, while it beats Wild Warfare (free, scores 31).

The drop-off

34% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Idle Hero TD - Tower Defense RPG scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 1,321 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2897580/idle-hero-td-tower-defense-rpg
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Reviews 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 27.

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Details

DeveloperSwell Games LLC
PublisherSwell Games LLC
GenreRPG
Released2024
Achievements45