Heads Will Roll: Reforged on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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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 24.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.

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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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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Nov. 2025

I love this game and have happily put 100 hours into it since its release. I can always come back to it and have a great time. Its meta progression is simple but my favorite feature, it allows me to create unique runs focusing on different weapons, trinkets and my favorite low/high virtue. The simple decision to run a high virtue character will dictate my whole run and branching paths, and for me this adds tremendous replay value. The game is designed to be replayed, with 100 hours I have not even come close to seeing all the different paths. I wish the different paths began sooner but once you have taken over the castle the game really opens up and can take you in wildly different directions. The combat may seem hard at the beginning but once you have a few good runs and get your stats up you feel powerful and this makes the meta progression feel rewarding. This game is a gem to me and I am grateful the developer keeps putting more content and care into it. side note I recommend playing a legionary's life if you like this game as it's the only other game that scratches the same meta progression itch for me and please let me know if there are others I would love to try them.

Oct. 2025

this is a higher budget knockoff of the truly excellent Legionary's life. You *must* play that before this, since it is cheaper, and so the original dev gets money after this game... frankly... completely ripped his off. A choices matter RPG, taking place in the backdrop of a war. the idea here is that your job is not to change the tide of the war, the idea is that you can use the war to raise your station from your humble beginings. The combat is a very unique balance act of careful defense and calculated aggression. The combat is *hard* the intended difficulty is *hard*, but it is very fun and rewarding once you figure it out

Sept. 2025

Picked up the original iteration of this game as a lark for like 5 bucks. Was amused by the decision to include some smutty artwork with a semi-historical, narrative roguelike RPG. Enjoyed it well enough and then put it down. When it was remastered and re-balanced and further developed a year or so later, I gave it another go. It has become one of my favorite 'roguelike' RPG/VN/Historical hybrid ever made. The game is grindy if you play it 'right', which is in HWR mode. Permdeath, no saves, no do-overs. Exactly as a roguelike should be. But the grind is FUN, even if the core content of the first few chapters is the same. Especially since as you level up your profile, your little hero starts strong and stronger each time. Better gear, better skills, better knowledge of the puzzles and quests and tricks and traps and fights. Before you know it, you're breezing through those opening chapters with aplomb and THAT is when you start to discover (largely but not entirely through a suite of good DLCs) the immense depth of content there is to be found here. So many intricate storylines, so much lore, so many choices and branches as you write and play out the tale of your greasy little English mercenary. And when you discover them the first time in HWR (roguelike) mode, it feels so revelatory and amazing. Like, you're grinding your way through for the 20th time building for one particular choice to find one particular ending (and there are more than 30!) and suddenly a door opens that you never even knew existed and a whole new story path presents itself. Seriously, whether you play this as an easy-breeze story or a grueling (but rewarding!) grindfest, it's a blast. Frustrating as heck at times, but a blast. The stories are a lot of fun, the artwork is adept and thematic, the combat is deeply complex with an array of options and styles. All in all, a steal at twice the price.

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.

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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Heads Will Roll: Reforged is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.

Heads Will Roll: Reforged is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.99€ 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 8 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.

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