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The Heroes Around Me tells a story of a family of 3: the hard-working and quiet father – Nan, his daughter Lili, and their pet dog Sesame. Players will experience the harshness and warmth in the simpler time of the 1990s, where lots of stories are untold.

The Heroes Around Me is a visual novel, story rich and drama game developed and published by OKJOY.
Released on June 14th 2024 is available only on Windows in 5 languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 651 reviews of which 627 were positive and 24 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 6.89€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Heroes Around Me into these genres:

Visual Novel Story Rich Drama Pixel Graphics Interactive Fiction RPG 1990's Indie Emotional Retro Exploration Immersive Sim Life Sim Cinematic Singleplayer Walking Simulator Adventure Conversation Dog Atmospheric

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 or greater
  • Processor: Intel i5 Quad-Core
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
  • Storage: 2 GB available space

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Jan. 2025
for a visual novel lover, this is a MUST HAVE!! you will have your heart tossed around from side to side, up to bottom.. and you'll shed tears just for hearing the songs. i LOVE this game! finished the game, but missed the characters already.. dunno if i could find another heart warming game like this again in the future. for now, i'm so glad i bought this. so worth the price!!
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Jan. 2025
I can't understand Chinese, so I only played the English version. While the story is still understandable, there's still quite a lot of typos (mostly spacing, misspelling lonely into "lonly", etc.), grammatical mistakes (e.g. A lot of people refer to each other as "they" when it should've been clearly her or him. There are no enby characters), bits of untranslated parts (there are two kids in the game console store that still speak Mandarin), and translation that goes too long that it goes beyond the text box on some mini-games. It takes you out of the story a little bit. That said, the story is pretty touching. It's pretty much what it's said on the tin -- a single father raising his daughter and dealing with loss and grief. It's not overly depressing, just bittersweet, and has some good moments. Not much in the gameplay standpoint, since it's pretty much a linear game; it's more like a walking simulator where you can bask pixellated rural Chinese town in the '90's, which isn't bad for this game. The soundtrack is also pretty good. However, I wish the story is longer. It ends pretty abruptly in my opinion; just when things are starting to get interesting and I was starting to get invested with the villagers and the dad's backstory, it ends. Which is a BIG shame. Also, the fishing minigame felt incredibly useless since you can't do anything with it -- I thought I can sell the fish I catch or cook something with it, but nope. Not even a list to check if I've collected everything or not. Small nitpick, but feel very wasteful since there's a couple fishing spots in the game. All in all, it's a pretty straightforward, heartwarming and bittersweet narrative game that ends too soon. If you like a walking simulator with a decent story, you'll like it.
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Dec. 2024
heartwarming, i recommend to buy and play this game without being spoiled with any gameplay, very good stories, linear story with one ending, almost cried with the atmosphere.
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Oct. 2024
A very heartwarming story between a father and daughter. There is English translation available which is helpful for English speakers, however if you can read Chinese I'll recommend playing the game in Chinese. There are a humour and nuances that falls flat in the translation. This is just a visual novel so not much game play but at the same time it is a chance to look at simpler times.
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June 2024
前前後後大概4-5小時吧 很感人很揪心, 剛開始玩的時候不知道該期待什麼...後來越玩越無法自拔, 玩到後來想到我已過世的爸爸, 想到還在世的媽媽, 打電話回家跟媽媽聊天, 默默的跟爸爸聊天.... 真的是一個天下父母心的遊戲, 強推. 希望以後可以有英文, 讓我推薦給朋友. 如果需要英文本地化可以聯絡我, 我也是專業的遊戲開發商.
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Frequently Asked Questions

The Heroes Around Me is currently priced at 6.89€ on Steam.

The Heroes Around Me is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 6.89€ on Steam.

The Heroes Around Me received 627 positive votes out of a total of 651 achieving a rating of 8.97.
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The Heroes Around Me was developed and published by OKJOY.

The Heroes Around Me is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Heroes Around Me is not playable on MacOS.

The Heroes Around Me is not playable on Linux.

The Heroes Around Me is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for The Heroes Around Me. Explore additional content available for The Heroes Around Me on Steam.

The Heroes Around Me does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Heroes Around Me does not support Steam Remote Play.

The Heroes Around Me 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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The Heroes Around Me PEGI 6
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