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A fast turn-based strategy RPG with real-time combat. Develop your cities and armies, level up your heroes to gain new, powerful spells and skills, and explore the wonders and dangers of the procedurally generated maps as you aim to conquer your enemies before they do the same to you.

Hero's Hour is a turn-based, pixel graphics and strategy game developed by Benjamin "ThingOnItsOwn" Hauer and published by Goblinz Publishing and Maple Whispering Limited.
Released on March 01st 2022 is available only on Windows in 11 languages: English, Spanish - Spain, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 5,369 reviews of which 4,287 were positive and 1,082 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.84€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Hero's Hour into these genres:

Turn-Based Pixel Graphics Strategy Singleplayer Turn-Based Strategy Fantasy Auto Battler Strategy RPG Turn-Based Tactics Level Editor Multiplayer Procedural Generation RPG Old School 2D Tactical PvP Local Co-Op Atmospheric 4X

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System requirements

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Windows
  • 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

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March 2025
i can't put into words what this game makes me feel, the devs have a fundamental understanding of the genre that expresses itself in subtle ways like the clowns, the clowns are how i know they know
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Jan. 2025
This game is going to be my go-to Heroes of Might and Magic clone for a long while mainly because it is just so enjoyable to actually play. I have loved the genre since I was a kid, but nowadays I get very burned out on the repetitive combat in these games. Grid or hex based battles are super fun, but can often take a while unless you're just auto-resolving (if the game allows). Hero's Hour uses an autobattle system and has the player cast quicktime spells, which makes the combats very short and sweet. There's a fair amount of variety between the factions and, while its fun that most studios want to publish original settings, I'm really enjoying the more generic fantasy setting the game uses. The graphics are just where they need to be, and the replayability, especially with extra faction mods available, is very very high. If you like HoMM but want a more streamlined approach, check this one out sometime. IMO it's worth the full price and the DLC given the amount of content and scenarios.
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Nov. 2024
Hero's Hour is an homage game: the developers loved the old Heroes of Might and Magic series of strategy games, and this is their own adaptation of games they loved, but with quicker combat. The formula that Hero's Hour adopts unabashedly is the three-part system of the old Heroes games: build up your cities with the resources your heroes collect on the overworld map while also engaging in tactical combat with the armies your heroes command. Victory comes with towns developed enough to train large and powerful armies as well as high-level heroes with the skills and items necessary to lead those armies: all that is familiar. The developers made a number of distinct changes to the formula; three big ones include: - Battles are RTS instead of turn-based: you'll watch your pixelated horde rush forward in a sprawling scrum to fight your enemies. - Fighting earns resources for cities, instead of just XP for heroes (with some hero skills boosting resources acquired from fighting enemies). There's now more incentive to seek out combat. - Infirmaries and hospitals allow some of your units killed in battle to respawn in nearby towns: this makes battles feel less all-or-nothing than they did in the original. The game is fun to play, easy even, on lower difficulties. However, there is a very wide gulf between the default difficulty and even the next-highest (challenging) The cause of the difficulty spike is the variety and sheer number of units. With so many different factions, all with several options for mutually-exclusive unit creation, not to mention unaligned units recruitable from special buildings on the world map, many with complicated special abilities, there is a lot of information to learn, let alone master. The game even has an entire playing mode, Skirmish, devoted to leading particular armies to victory against particular other armies. To players like me, who want to play the game more as resource-management and overland RPG adventure, Skirmish mode and the upper-level difficulties (which require greater micromanagement of in-combat troops) aren't particularly appealing (if you were the kind of player who, when playing Master of Orion II, turned off the "tactical combat" option, your experience might be similar to mine). The game was good but not amazing. However, if you were the kind of player who both loved the Heroes of Might and Magic series and wished for the kind of "micro" gameplay that appears in games like Starcraft II, this game is absolutely perfect for you.
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Oct. 2024
This is a fun Might and Magic style game with a Total War style combat twist. I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected tbh. If you've played HoMM3, this will more than satisfy that niche better than most mainline HoMM games.
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Aug. 2024
A flawed but brilliant strategy game with auto battler elements. While often on the easier side, there are lots of incredibly fun skill combinations, army compositions, and an insane amount of variety. TOIO is highly active within the community and is constantly gathering and responding to feedback, bug reports, and suggestions, as well as hosting art marathons which allow the community to contribute to the game. A wonderful game made by an incredible, passionate developer :)
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Hero's Hour is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

Hero's Hour is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.

Hero's Hour received 4,287 positive votes out of a total of 5,369 achieving a rating of 7.76.
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Hero's Hour was developed by Benjamin "ThingOnItsOwn" Hauer and published by Goblinz Publishing and Maple Whispering Limited.

Hero's Hour is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Hero's Hour is not playable on MacOS.

Hero's Hour is not playable on Linux.

Hero's Hour offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Hero's Hour offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

There are 2 DLCs available for Hero's Hour. Explore additional content available for Hero's Hour on Steam.

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Hero's Hour
14.99€ -95% 14.99€ 0.84€
7.8
4,287
1,082
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
97
Developer
Benjamin "ThingOnItsOwn" Hauer
Publisher
Goblinz Publishing, Maple Whispering Limited
Release 01 Mar 2022
Platforms
Remote Play
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