Heroes of Annihilated Empires

Heroes of Annihilated Empires

Worth it · Strategy · 2006

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $7.99.

Length
15.2h 30.2h to 100%
Value
$0.53/hr
Reviews
85% of 800 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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

Raising the score
Value$0.53/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 346 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Heroes of Annihilated Empires - is a fantasy-based game from GSC Game World in the genre of RTS vs RPG for PC. 4 unique races awaits for the heroes, who want to fight in an Epic scale battles!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 78 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, SpellForce 3 Fallen God ($19.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats SpellForce 3 Soul Harvest ($19.99, scores 64).

More about Heroes of Annihilated Empires

Critics scored it 65. Players sit 20 points higher at 85 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

2 of the 346 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.

Players

Players online
9 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 18:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

It's okay, nice looking, very confusing. If you are not interested in reading the manual, probably not the game for you, it doesn't offer much in the way of in game guidance or tutorials. Took me three tried to finally beat the opening scenario, not too bad. A tepid one thumb up, but I've only played a little of it. ADDENDUM: I have three hours under my belt now and I am quite enjoying it.
helix2Recommendedafter 3.1hFeb 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Heroes of Annihilated Empires scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/4800/heroes-of-annihilated-empires
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Reviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+20
Critics65
Players85
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 800 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperGSC Game World
PublisherGSC Game World
GenreStrategy
Released2006
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate