Hero's Hour

3.6 out of 5
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About Hero's Hour

About this game

Hero's Hour is an accessible, yet-deep and content-rich Strategy Roleplaying Game. Take control of your hero, explore the world, build up your town, fight fast-paced battles, level up your hero and amass an army large enough to take out the opponents - before they take you out.

Turn Based + Real Time

While exploring the overworld and developing your town and army are both turn-based, giving you time to think and plan out your next moves, in battles your units will do the best to fight for themselves in real time - all hundreds of them. Cast spells and give attack orders to swing the tide of battle - or just sit back and watch as your might unfolds.

Procedural Generation

Hero's Hour brings impactful procedural generation to the strategy game formula, ensuring that every time you play, there will be new areas to explore and strange buildings to enhance your hero or army. Seek out obelisks to start you on small procedural quests that send you around the world. You won't even be able to use the same build order each time you play the same faction.

Features

  • 11 factions with special mechanics, strengths and weaknesses
  • 22 hero classes, with a special skill each
  • 50 common hero skills
  • 177 units (and 99 upgraded units)
  • 80 unique unit abilities
  • 166 artifacts
  • 83 spells (+18 spells unlocked via skills)
  • Dozens of impactful map buildings
  • Local "hotseat" multiplayer
  • Co-op with other players or even with the AI

Being on the faster side compared to other turn based strategy games, you may even be able to finish the hotseat games that you start!

Game Details

Release Date:
March 01, 2022
Developer:
Benjamin "ThingOnItsOwn" Hauer
Publishers:
Maple Whispering Limited
Goblinz Publishing
Supported Languages:
English +
Link:
Genres:
Strategy
Turn-Based Strategy

Auto Battler

Strategy RPG

RPG

4X

Grand Strategy
Themes:
Tactical
Pixel Graphics

Fantasy

Atmospheric
Play Styles:
Turn-Based
Singleplayer

2D

Level Editor

Turn-Based Tactics

Multiplayer

Procedural Generation

PvP

Local Co-Op
Collections:
Turn Based RPG
2D RPG

2D Pixel
Features:
PvP
SharedSplit Screen PvP

SharedSplit Screen Coop

SharedSplit Screen

Steam Achievements

Steam Workshop

Steam Cloud

Stats

Includes level editor

Remote Play Together

Product Requirements

Minimum:

  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Microsoft 64bit Windows 7 or younger
  • Processor: Dual-core 2Ghz CPU
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6250 or better DirectX11 compatible graphics card
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 100 MB available space

Recommended:

  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Core i5 or equivalent
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD 4000 integrated, NVIDIA GT 650m graphics card or better DirectX11 compatible graphics card
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 100 MB available space

Critic Reviews

80 / 100
"While a lack of online modes may limit the game’s shelf life, the excellent faction variety and snappy pace give Hero’s Hour an undeniable charm."
80 / 100
"If you’re into Strategy games this can be a fun take on things. Plus I’d wager it’s also a great entry point into the genre. Its learning curve isn’t steep enough to scare off...
85 / 100
"Hero’s Hour shows how compelling and fun the Heroes of Might & Magic formula can be when a developer gets the core mechanics right. It takes a little time to get used to the...
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Tough
46.15%
Unforgiving
7.69%
Don't Ragequit! 46.15%  of players consider this game to be Tough

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Completionist! 7.14%  of players have Conquered It

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0% of players played this game for >= 80 Hours!

Hero's Hour User Reviews

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User Rating

Average score from 5 ratings
67% of users would recommend this.
3.6

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Recommended

Sturmir
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Miss the Heroes of Might and Magic Game? Want a modern take that's better than the original series latest iteration? The game lacks a lot of the charm that makes Heroes II/III so good, it's lightyears better than IV++ and it actually does it in a pretty refreshing way with a pause-able RTS-like gameplay where strategy and spellcasting actually makes a huge difference in outcome. When before you may feel like skipping battles, the battles themself are entertaining enough to actually continue. Each faction is pretty good, but the main drawback is that the game lacks a lot of the ... 'soul' of the original. Each faction feels unique-enough but there's something missing from me, from the towns not sufficiently feeling like the buildings matter as much, to there not being enough 'space' on battle maps and the main world to actually act too tactically. It doesn't last nearly as long either, each game probably takes me 2-3 hours to go through a game, which is fairly fast in strategy game terms.
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Recommended

ZoxsDark
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If u ever wanted HOMM with rts style then this game is for u all in all its made to be harder than HOMM, But u will still enjoy It
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Frequently Asked Questions

Are you ready for a challenge? 8% of GameFAQs users said Hero's Hour is Simple or Easy. 38% of GameFAQs users said the difficulty is Just Right. 54% of GameFAQs users said Hero's Hour is Tough or Unforgiving.
Yes, Hero's Hour is Steam Deck Verified.
  • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
  • In-game interface text is legible on Steam Deck
  • All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Microsoft 64bit Windows 7 or younger
  • Processor: Dual-core 2Ghz CPU
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6250 or better DirectX11 compatible graphics card
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 100 MB available space
Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Core i5 or equivalent
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD 4000 integrated, NVIDIA GT 650m graphics card or better DirectX11 compatible graphics card
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 100 MB available space
71% of critics on Metacritic recommend Hero's Hour. The Metascore is 77 out of 100.
Hero's Hour was released on March 01, 2022
Hero's Hour is published by Maple Whispering Limited and Goblinz Publishing
Hero's Hour was developed by Benjamin "ThingOnItsOwn" Hauer
Fanatical users tagged Hero's Hour as Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy, Auto Battler, and Strategy RPG
Fanatical users tagged Hero's Hour as Tactical, Pixel Graphics, Fantasy, and Atmospheric
Yes. Fanatical users tagged Hero's Hour as having Singleplayer
Yes. Fanatical users tagged Hero's Hour as having Multiplayer
Yes. Fanatical users tagged Hero's Hour as having PvP
Yes. Fanatical users tagged Hero's Hour as having Local Co-Op
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Hero's Hour as Strategy
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Hero's Hour as Turn-Based Strategy
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Hero's Hour as Auto Battler

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