Heroes of Hammerwatch II

Heroes of Hammerwatch II

Fair · Roguelike · 2025

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 6 of 6 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 6 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$19.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$9.9950% off

Cost per hour
$1.89/hr
Reviews▼
82% of 6,650
Genre rank
Top 36% Roguelike

Holding it back: Reviews

Recent reviews trending down: 74% over the last 30 days against 82% all-time.

Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
10.6h
To 100%
40.6h 3.8x the story
Achievements
45

Price and sales

Sales
13 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$7.99 June 2026
Sale every
52d last October 2026
Lowest now $17.99 at Green Man Gamingall-time low $4.51 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
209 now
Recent reviews
74% 30 days
Cheaper than
9% of its genre
Better reviewed
57% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

83% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 13 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 36 percent. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Heroes of Hammerwatch ($14.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons of Edera ($14.99, scores 19).

More about Heroes of Hammerwatch II

Players rate it 82 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 74 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 419 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 10.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 41, 3.8 times as much.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 18 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reach1.5M+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds10 of 800 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

What players say

its a very fun game, there is a few things that i didnt like but so far the good outweight the bad and it seems that the most of the things i didnt like are actually intentional from the devs for the town progression so it gets better as we progress, the only thing that i would recommend changing its to make it so the thunderbird takes more materials to the town instead of only half, but beyond that the game is very...
GigiRecommendedafter 9.6hOct 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Heroes of Hammerwatch II delivers a genuinely fun cooperative experience at its core, but it struggles with significant content limitations, slight technical hiccups, and a repetitive structure that hold it back from greatness. Fun Co-Op Experience: It's neat and genuinely fun, especially when playing with a friend having a homie down to play makes the core experience infinitely better. Pro-Consumer DLC Sharing: The...
NoDramaJustALlamaRecommendedafter 29hOct 2026Read on Steam
cloud save failure. all characters gone when reinstalling other than that, fun pixel art rpg game. a bit repetitive like most ARPGs, so either the grind is for you or not
FortoomNot recommendedafter 46hOct 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

A rogue-lite action-rpg that offers extensive persistent progression. Build your town, upgrade and equip your heroes, before taking on the ever-changing Dark Citadel - either solo or with a team of friends.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.2+ / DirectX 11+, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Heroes of Hammerwatch II scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/619820/heroes-of-hammerwatch-ii
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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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperCrackshell
PublisherTeam17
GenreRoguelike
Released2025
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements45