Heroes Rise: The Prodigy
Fair · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.6h 16.4h to 100%
- Value
- $0.66/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 403 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.99 (40% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Do you have what it takes to become a legendary Powered hero? "Heroes Rise" is an epic interactive novel where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. How high will you rise?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 51 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 52 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 34 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Left on Read (free, scores 55).
More about Heroes Rise: The Prodigy
Steam's global achievement data puts 62 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
7.6 hours to finish it, 16 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
70% start to 62% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
I bought the Heroes Rise trilogy while it was on sale after greatly enjoying the Choice of the Deathless demo (which I still plan to buy). Most of my childhood was spent in the 1990s, so I was able to experience the actual "choose your own adventure" novels that were popular back when bookstores still actually existed. At the time, I actually didn't care for them. Nearly every one I read would have ridiculous...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
You know, when I initially saw this game when it was released I paid no notice to it. I was pretty sure it would be horrible. I can't say for what reasons, but that was the state I was in. After playing this, I can only conclude that not only does it bring me back to my childhood with the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series', it has applied logic which was never possible in a paperback format. The writing done in...
Most of the choices don't matter. Not worth the time I put in and I didn't put in much. About 8 chapters in I felt like I was just witnessing someone else's narrative and found the "romance" really forced. You literally have to shut down the romance three times before it registers. TL/DR bad book, choice no matter.
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Cite this score
Heroes Rise: The Prodigy scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/299540/heroes-rise-the-prodigyReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.