Hammerwatch II on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Gather your heroes and journey beyond the dungeons of Castle Hammerwatch to explore a pixelated world like never before. Aid King Roland’s resistance while helping villagers along the way. Battle beasts, finish off hordes of the undead, and face the forces of evil.

Hammerwatch II is a hack and slash, action rpg and co-op game developed by Crackshell and published by Maximum Entertainment.
Released on August 15th 2023 is available only on Windows in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 2,050 reviews of which 1,265 were positive and 785 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.1 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.21€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Hammerwatch II into these genres:

Hack and Slash Action RPG Co-op Dungeon Crawler Pixel Graphics Medieval Online Co-Op Character Customization RPG Singleplayer Co-op Campaign Action Action-Adventure Adventure Puzzle Mystery Dungeon 2D Dark Fantasy Dragons Fantasy

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
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

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025

Do I recommend this game? Yes and no. Even though I'm not a huge fan of the Hammerwatch series, games like this have great potential. BUT regarding the negative reviews, I’d say these players don’t enjoy a long-term RPG journey—they just want a hack-and-slash experience like in rogue-like games. The devs opened up the workshop, which was like a holy grail for this game style. And guess what? Those players' comments ruined the game, and the devs gave up. That's how this game ended.

Jan. 2025

While I have yet to finish the game, at around 16 hours in playing on the hardest difficulty I cannot for the life of me understand the legion of negative reviews. While it seems the game has its share of odd bugs, thus far I have yet to encounter a single one. Likewise, while I have not touched multiplayer, the general sentiment seems to be that the game is simply not Heroes of Hammerwatch and the multiplayer experience does not align well with this predecessor. Bugs there may be, and multiplayer game this may struggle to be, but for what it is I am thoroughly enjoying the experience. The game has an interesting enough story to make me want to pick up the OG Hammerwatch, and does so with an unforigiving, old-school open world that harkens back to old DOS RPGs. Most of my struggle has been from not meticulously reading the quest text to tell me explicitly where to go, and is in this vein that I feel most people are struggling to enjoy the title. The game tells you exactly what you need to do, but at the same time simply gives you text and leaves the rest for you to figure out. Too often you find yourself drifting around the open world just wanting to explore, only to stumble upon some place unexpectedly that you were not supposed to be quite yet while fighting the urge to explore it. Don't get me wrong, Hammerwatch II has its annoyances and flaws. By far the most annoying quest thus far is a "loan" where you're given 20k and have to pay back 30k where the consequence of not doing so is to be endlessly annoyed for the remainder of your save. But, generally speaking, these are relatively minor and are offset by the solid gameplay and enjoyable challenge at the hardest difficulty. The bosses I have encountered thus far have been well-composed and enjoyable to fight with a great measure of creativity ala Heroes of Hammerwatch, and the skill and equipment systems are interesting. As with all publishers, I am sure Crackshell has been under pressure to deliver with tight schedules and unforgiving budgets. But they did not churn out a garbage title with Hammerwatch II, and while it looks like the early release had some problems and bugs those seem infrequent to non-existent in my personal experience. The amount of vitriol really just seems disproprortionate to what the product has to offer. For my two cents, I think it's a solid game and I look forward to finishing it and perhaps doing a playthrough with another character or two.

Sept. 2024

Great game so far. My son loves Minecraft dungeons and I don't, I got him into this game and he hasn't remembered Minecraft Dungeons since. My wife, my son, and I all three play this game as an evening hobby. This is a great RPG, and with all the patches since launch I haven't had a single issue with the game. The retro style, themes, and enjoyable play bring me back to happier times of my youth. I whole heartedly recommend this game. Get it, get your boys to get it, and settle down for an evening with the boys and a drink. P.S. PC can be modded. I think this game has a lot of potential on that side.

Aug. 2024

I grew up playing games like Gauntlet and 2d overhead RPGs. And this game is absolutely amazing. The best of it's kind since Gauntlet 64, which it pays homage to at some points. The online play is flawless, the gameplay is quick, fair, challenging, and well paced, the NPCs have nice flavor, and the map traversal and exploration couldn't be better. The improvements since Hammerwatch 1 makes this feel like I woke up from a 40 year coma and this is Hammerwatch 8. My buddy and I couldn't be happier playing this, every gaming session we come out of it utterly impressed with how well this game does what it does. I don't make a lot of reviews but I noticed this game has a Mixed review status and I thought I might as well do my part to bump it up slightly.

April 2024

If you intend to play only multiplayer, HW2 is a risky buy as multiplayer is unplayable for some and fine for others. Having played mostly offline single player, I've encountered next to no bugs, and as a single player experience it's really fun. Just don't expect it to be Heroes of Hammerwatch 2; this is Hammerwatch 2.

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