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 Eneba.
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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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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
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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.
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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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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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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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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 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.
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Developer
1917 Studios
Publisher
Valkyrie Initiative
Release
04 Oct 2023
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