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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.

Heroes of Hammerwatch is a rogue-lite, action roguelike and co-op game developed by Crackshell and published by Team17.
Released on March 01st 2018 is available on Windows and Linux in 3 languages: English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 9,184 reviews of which 8,061 were positive and 1,123 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 3.69€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for 1.04€ on Gamivo.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 or later
  • Processor: Intel Core™ Duo or faster
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+ / DirectX 11+
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or later
  • Processor: Intel Core™ Duo or faster
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+
  • Storage: 500 MB available space

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Jan. 2026
我是一名中国玩家,这款游戏是昨天刚入手的,今天一口气玩了五个多小时。其中四个多小时,我都是和好友一起摸索着闯关,磕磕绊绊打得不亦乐乎。中途我们的房间突然加入了一位德国高玩,听他交流时提到自己已经玩了 200 小时,有他带队,我俩直接体验了一把躺赢的快感。可就在他带着我们挑战最终 Boss 的关键时刻,我突然掉线,整个房间也跟着崩了,最遗憾的是,连游戏好友都没来得及加上。 I’m a Chinese gamer. I just picked up this game yesterday, and I’ve already sunk over five hours into it today. For more than four of those hours, I was fumbling through the levels with a friend of mine, struggling but having a total blast. Halfway through our session, a German pro player hopped into our lobby out of the blue. From our chat, we learned he’d clocked 200 hours on the game. With him leading the charge, my friend and I got to sit back and enjoy the ride. But right when he was taking us to fight the boss, my game suddenly disconnected — and the whole lobby crashed right after. The biggest bummer? I never got the chance to send him a friend request.
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Dec. 2025
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☑ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☑ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
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Dec. 2025
Played through completely solo. I enjoyed the first 50 hours and stopped after reaching NG+4. Initial progression is really fun since I liked developing the town and constantly getting upgrades from various shopkeepers. I guess where I stopped enjoying the game was NG+2 when it felt like every run was just throwing more numbers at you.
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Oct. 2025
An improved roguelite version of its predecessor with more classes, deeper dungeons and an onsite tavern to drown your sorrows after a harrowing death by slug... Coming from the first Hammerwatch game, this is such an improvement in more than one way. The transition from roguelike to roguelite makes this game so much more rewarding and keeps you hooked on exploring the odd and varied locations that the game throws at you. However, some of the assets and enemies are reused from the first game, so if you come from that one expecting to be mind-blowing your mileage might vary. When it comes to visuals this is as expected a nice blocky retro-aesthetic extravaganza with just a tad of improvement from the first installment even if some of the sprites are reused and given just a tad more polish. If you adore the SNES-era look you will feel right at home. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3578102239 During each run you hack, slash and shoot your way through dungeons filled with traps, treasures and secrets. You get plenty of chances to send gold and ore back to your base to build up the settlement and unlock more and more upgrades for your heroes. This loop is, in my humble opinion, a fun and great expansion of the first games' loose it all at the end of run approach. However.. This also means a fair amount of grind, and since the gold and ore can be used mid run to upgrade your current capabilities it is a decision about a potentially better current run, or investing into the unknown future. I do wish that the ore and gold were more plentiful, and of course there are drinks and wishes (risk/reward kind of thing at the fountain) that give you a bit more targeted approach if gathering more gold/ore at the cost of losing experience is your thing.. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3578102087 In the end this is a competent expansion of the Hammerwatch formula and works great in multiplayer since loot is shared among all the players. The classes have their own unique twist and once you have unlocked most of the skills they do play quite uniquely even though some overlapping is still present. The main gameplay is basically your old hack and slash, and it works. It is quite challenging in the beginning but gets gradually easier as you unlock more skills and hits a quite solid curve that is suitable to most experiences. Conclusion: A solid successor to a retro dungeoncrawling experience gone roguelite. I have yet to play the last one in the series but as for now this holds a solid recommendation for some light weight dungeon crawling in jolly cooperation!
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March 2025
After having played Heroes of Hammerwatch 2, I tried out its predecessor. I was amazed at just how much better it is. Some caveats: HoH1 is not superior in ALL aspects. HoH2 has better music, and convenient features like being able to quit the game with an active run, then resuming said run later. I do miss these from HoH2. What HoH1 IS better at, is gameplay. Put simply, the game designers behind HoH1 knew what they were doing, and the ones behind HoH2 did not; permanent items and equipment slots were a mistake, plentiful health and mana regen were a mistake, the Shadow Curse mechanic was a mistake, elemental resistances split up into four different stats was a mistake, attribute points were a mistake, the ability kits were very poorly balanced and the Warlock's was an unmitigated disaster... HoH2 is a good game, and it is original in that it innovates relative to its predecessor. However, the good parts are not original, and the original parts are not good. HoH1 is excellent, the DLC is excellent, buy all of it.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Heroes of Hammerwatch is currently priced at 3.69€ on Steam.

Heroes of Hammerwatch is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 3.69€ on Steam.

Heroes of Hammerwatch received 8,061 positive votes out of a total of 9,184 achieving a rating of 8.54.
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Heroes of Hammerwatch was developed by Crackshell and published by Team17.

Heroes of Hammerwatch is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Heroes of Hammerwatch is not playable on MacOS.

Heroes of Hammerwatch is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Heroes of Hammerwatch offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Heroes of Hammerwatch includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.

There are 3 DLCs available for Heroes of Hammerwatch. Explore additional content available for Heroes of Hammerwatch on Steam.

Heroes of Hammerwatch is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

Heroes of Hammerwatch does not support Steam Remote Play.

Heroes of Hammerwatch 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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Heroes of Hammerwatch
Rating
8.5
8,061
1,123
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
96
Developer
Crackshell
Publisher
Team17
Release 01 Mar 2018
Platforms
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