HammerHelm
Fair · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 17h 20h to 100%
- Value
- $0.59/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 398 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. Calls like this were right 83% 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
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
HammerHelm is a unique blend of third-person adventuring and strategic town building. Create your dwarf character and build a flourishing town above ground. Complete quests, craft weapons and armor, defeat dangerous enemies and be the leader your townspeople need!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 470 / Radeon R9 M270X, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
54 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 15 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 71 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Slime Rancher 2 ($29.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Force of Nature ($7.99, scores 44).
More about HammerHelm
This site sampled 233 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
83% start to 5% 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
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 21:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A simple game, honestly crude but provides just enough adventure to make it fun. Combat is floaty and laggy, but once you learn the mechanic it is easy. Your character moves faster than the enemies, so you can use terrain and different strategies without being constantly pressured by aggro. You can block and evade, combat is the typical lazy programming with 1-2-3 action swings that lock out your controls during the...
1 more review, not recommended
This is a very basic game that has very little depth to any of the systems and it gets repetitive quickly. I also encountered a bug that prevented me from progressing the main story and was unable to find a solution for.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
HammerHelm scores 54/100 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/664000/hammerhelmReviews 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.