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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 5,300 reviews of which 4,237 were positive and 1,063 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 5.99€ on Steam with a 60% discount.


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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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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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May 2024
Pretty cool homage to HOMM, which I've played almost all my life now. This is a "ehh, maybe" review though. The game only has random scenarios available, no campaign, no story, nothing. If random skirmishes were your thing in HOMM then get it, it's cool fun and PACKED with factions. If not, then I don't really reccommend it. The combat is bland, almost none of your decisions matter (except spells), so skirmishes quickly devolve into: "how I can get the highest number of low-tier units quicker?", which gets old fast. Positioning was a major part of HOMM, especially 3. Here, not so much, unless your army is really lower rated than the opposing force, and then why are you fighting it? Just get higher numbers my dude. Ppl say it's pretty hard and stuff, but it's extremely easy to steamroll the AI if you know the basics.
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May 2024
I've been playing the homm series with a friend since homm4 on a regular basis. This game is the spiritual successor of the series with pretty much all the "why did the devs do annoying game design choice x"-things fixed. It's pretty much the best homm in all regards other than graphics. The combat is different but I actually enjoy it more (e.g. seeing all the units as an army rather than having to use my imagination for my 100 archers in one stack; a lot of times in the old games at some point we would auto resolve the fights anyways, this is kind of the same but more interactive). And the (solo)dev is still actively shaping the game. Love it.
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Hero's Hour is currently priced at 5.99€ on Steam.

Hero's Hour is currently available at a 60% discount. You can purchase it for 5.99€ on Steam.

Hero's Hour received 4,237 positive votes out of a total of 5,300 achieving a rating of 7.77.
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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 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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Hero's Hour
7.8
4,237
1,063
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
126
Developer
Benjamin "ThingOnItsOwn" Hauer
Publisher
Goblinz Publishing, Maple Whispering Limited
Release 01 Mar 2022
Platforms
Remote Play