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Hardcore survival RPG with non-linear story that lets you play as a young medieval soldier who over the course of battles and adventures becomes the most formidable and respected knight of his era. Or, if he’s not lucky enough, perishes in the chaos of the Hundred Years' War.

Heads Will Roll: Reforged is a replay value, war and dark game developed by 1917 Studios and published by Valkyrie Initiative.
Released on October 04th 2023 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 10 languages: English, Russian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 951 reviews of which 833 were positive and 118 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 6.24€ on Steam with a 75% discount.

The Steam community has classified Heads Will Roll: Reforged into these genres:

Replay Value War Dark Perma Death Choices Matter Medieval RPG Historical Story Rich Text-Based Choose Your Own Adventure Difficult Romance Turn-Based 2D Interactive Fiction Rogue-lite Singleplayer Atmospheric Multiple Endings

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7/8/10
  • Processor: Any CPU with SSE2 instruction set support: Intel Pentium 4+, AMD Athlon 64+
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.0
  • DirectX: Version 8.1
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX® Compatible
MacOS
  • OS: Any relatively modern version of macOS
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.0
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
Linux
  • Processor: Any CPU with SSE2 instruction set support: Intel Pentium 4+, AMD Athlon 64+
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.0
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

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May 2025
Entertaining for a bit, but since they put caps on your attributes it's now pointless to play after a certain level. No more progression, you just max everything out. For people who's favorite part of a game is progression, it's kind of a no-go.
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March 2025
Amazing game with devs who are constantly updating it. This is a Ren'py game, so if you know their engine, you should know that this game is someone akin to a visual novel. The big difference is that this game can be brutal with fleshed out combat systems inspired by a roguelike system, ensuring over, at the time of writing this, nearly over 30 different endings and other things. DLC and this game, as well as probably more sequels, will come out making the $10 you spent on this well worth it.
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Feb. 2025
It starts SLOW. VERY SLOW. You'll die in Cambrai so, so, so many times. but then you start finishing that part, and racking up substantial gains each run and uncovering new paths and gear and etc. that's when it gets good. UNFORTUNATELY, that never speeds up the early game. yes, you can kill guys faster and spend less time thinking about your choices, but unlike something like say... Rogue Legacy or even Nethack or something, there's never any skipping the beginning of the game. So you're always going to be fighting through Cambrai for 30 minutes before you actually get to play the interesting part of the game. That said, the combat is good, there's a TON of gear that works together in neat ways, and the story is really compelling.
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Dec. 2024
The game is alot of fun. As others have said, Heads Will Roll Mode is how you should play from the start due to Rogue-lite style progression, which will allow you to get stronger over each run, until you can make a genuine badass hero type main character instead of some poopy background militaman. As such get ready to skip (hold ctrl) through lines you've read 10x times, as you repeat the same first three chapters, alot. On the upside you will have a powerful PC in HWR mode quickly if you start in that mode off the bat, and then a flat out overpowered one not long after with accumulated points. The general gameplay loop is fun. Combat is engaging, then once you get powerful it's brainless, but still serviceable and mostly fun. Crafting system is simple and works fine, and allows you to break the game/economy if used right (a common theme with crafting in RPGs). Now here is where I let off my criticisms. As others have said you tend to get sick of replaying the first 2-3 chapters when you're grinding your early HWR runs to build up your OP super character, and it would be cool if there was some more variety in those early story bits (At the time of writing a DLC is coming out within 2 weeks that is supposed to add more branching story paths, but at this moment I can't say). I sometimes have an issue with the writing, and considering it's a text based RPG it's hard to ignore at times. Some plot points and characters can feel a bit cheap, some are one dimensional, and others are obvious cliches (Olivia I'm looking at you, just as an example). Stuff that sometimes comes off a bit like a cheap fantasy/romance novel. This isn't objectively bad writing if I'm being fair, but personally I wanted more of a historical/realistic and gritty vibe from the story, especially with the historical context of war that this entire game is set in, so these things tended to throw me off... Then the romance.... is either out of place or straight cringe in every instance I've seen so far. Very poorly written female characters that feel like they come right out of some dime smut novel, but I know degens like that stuff in their RPGs even if it's unrealistic or written cheaply. I mean they have a nudity DLC, softcore feet as one of the store page pictures, and in the description the MC is surrounded by all romance characters like a harem ffs... so they clearly are marketing to that audience to a degree which I think only cheapens this game as a product in the long run. I'll concede some of this is down to subjective tastes, and from what I've seen English is not the first language for these devs so maybe some of those cringe moments came down to translation not having the proper words to convey the emotions. It hasn't made me stop playing in any case but it's a bit jarring when I can't tell if I'm in a gritty realistic drama/war story or a cliche romance novel. In any case, if you even somewhat like these types of games, this is for sure a game you can sink alot of time into over multiple runs, fun enough to hook me into sinking a full day (about 9 hours) into the game on my first day owning it over the holiday weekend.
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Oct. 2024
Old school and clunky as hell, but the core game loop is engaging, and I expect this would run on anything.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Heads Will Roll: Reforged is currently priced at 6.24€ on Steam.

Heads Will Roll: Reforged is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 6.24€ on Steam.

Heads Will Roll: Reforged received 833 positive votes out of a total of 951 achieving a rating of 8.28.
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Heads Will Roll: Reforged was developed by 1917 Studios and published by Valkyrie Initiative.

Heads Will Roll: Reforged is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Heads Will Roll: Reforged is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Heads Will Roll: Reforged is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Heads Will Roll: Reforged is a single-player game.

There are 7 DLCs available for Heads Will Roll: Reforged. Explore additional content available for Heads Will Roll: Reforged on Steam.

Heads Will Roll: Reforged does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Heads Will Roll: Reforged does not support Steam Remote Play.

Heads Will Roll: Reforged is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Heads Will Roll: Reforged.

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