Heroes of Hammerwatch

Heroes of Hammerwatch

Worth it · Roguelike · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$14.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$3.7475% off

Cost per hour
$0.75/hr
Reviews▼
87% of 9,546
Genre rank
Top 15% Roguelike

Holding it back: Reach, Reviews

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.74 or less.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
20h
To 100%
92.7h 4.6x the story
Achievements
114

Price and sales

Sales
45 on record
Typical cut
60% off
Steam low
$2.99 November 2024
Sale every
54d last October 2026
Lowest now $11.99 at GOGall-time low $1.00 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
50 now
Cheaper than
27% of its genre
Better reviewed
75% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

77% 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 45 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Children of Morta ($3.29, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Never Split the Party (free, scores 44).

More about Heroes of Hammerwatch

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 439 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 20 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 93, 4.6 times as much.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 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
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
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

About the game

Heroes of Hammerwatch is a rogue-lite action-adventure. Explore and battle your way through procedurally generated levels on your own or with up to 3 friends.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.2+ / DirectX 11+, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Heroes of Hammerwatch scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/677120/heroes-of-hammerwatch
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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 Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperCrackshell
PublisherTeam17
GenreRoguelike
Released2018
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements114