Dark Heritage: Guardians of Hope
Skip · Narrative · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 3.6h 4.9h to 100%
- Value
- $4.16/hr
- Reviews
- 56% of 395 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
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
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
Find the philosopher's stone and save your mentor!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB VRAM, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 86 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek ($14.99, scores 52) and Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden ($14.99, scores 57) both outscore it.
The drop-off
47% start to 15% 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
If people consider these graphics are old, I must be living in another world than them - I hate people that will reject a game based solely on the graphics. Must be because I'm old enough to have seen the evolution of video games. Also, it's an Hidden Object Game, you don't expect to have Call of Duty's most recent engine, do you? Artifex Mundi as a publisher didn't always have the luck to propose great games...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I confess to be a little startled at the amount of negative reviews on this game. While it is not the pinnacle of the Artifex Mundi collection, I found it to be very entertaining and worth a couple hours of gameplay. As I almost always say, I suggest getting it on sale, as I believe personally that most of these HO games are overpriced for the gametime involved. There are certainly some odd things in the game...
This game is bad. I mean really bad. The art is okay (the image quality is so low that it kinda looks like crap, unfortunately), the VA is terrible and exaggerated, and the thing that bothered me the most… They used live action actors in the scenes. Obviously they don't match with the background, and on the brief scenes that you can see them, the camera keeps focusing on their eyes as it seems it tries to show some...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dark Heritage: Guardians of Hope scores 2/100 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/394280/dark-heritage-guardians-of-hopeReviews 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.