Has-Been Heroes
Skip · Roguelike · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 17h 327h to 100%
- Value
- $1.18/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 392 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2113 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
Has-Been Heroes is a challenging, lane-based roguelike game of strategy and action, featuring a band of heroes on a quest to escort the King's twin princesses to school!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 260 / Radeon HD 4000 Series / Intel HD Graphics 4000, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 22 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 302 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 67 percent. Just King ($4.99, scores 66) outscores it, and so does Overture ($4.99, scores 40). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Has-Been Heroes
The press gave it 63; the people who bought it give it 76 percent. A 13-point gap in the buyer's favour.
HowLongToBeat players log 17 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 327, 19 times as much.
The drop-off
72% start to 1% 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
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 15:50 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This was one of my most favorite games. I firmly believe the only reason it didn't take off was because folks could not perform at the level the game asked you to. The game was super challenging, and very rewarding.
2 more reviews
Has-Been Heroes, developed by Frozenbyte and published by GameTrust Games, is a roguelike strategy adventure that dares to do something unusual with its genre. It blends real-time lane-based combat with a turn-based layer of planning, creating a system that demands precision, timing, and adaptability. The game follows a group of washed-up heroes tasked with a deceptively simple mission-escort twin princesses to...
Has-Been Heroes is probably one of the best and most underrated roguelikes that I know of. This game is great and you should try it out. In Has-Been Heroes you play a team of legendary heroes who are however past their prime time and all they do nowadays are simple errands for the king. In this game their job is to bring the two princesses to their school. But at the same time an evil ghoul enslaves the souls of the...
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Cite this score
Has-Been Heroes scores 38/100 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/492290/has-been-heroesReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.