Heads Will Roll: Reforged on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Hardcore survival RPG with non-linear story that lets you play as a young medieval soldier who over the course of battles and adventures becomes the most formidable and respected knight of his era. Or, if he’s not lucky enough, perishes in the chaos of the Hundred Years' War.

Heads Will Roll: Reforged is a replay value, war and dark game developed by 1917 Studios and published by Valkyrie Initiative.
Released on October 04th 2023 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 2 languages: English and Russian.

It has received 922 reviews of which 806 were positive and 116 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 5.37€ on Steam with a 57% discount.

The Steam community has classified Heads Will Roll: Reforged into these genres:

Replay Value War Dark Perma Death Choices Matter Medieval RPG Historical Story Rich Text-Based Choose Your Own Adventure Difficult Romance Turn-Based 2D Interactive Fiction Rogue-lite Singleplayer Atmospheric Multiple Endings

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7/8/10
Processor: Any CPU with SSE2 instruction set support: Intel Pentium 4+, AMD Athlon 64+
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.0
DirectX: Version 8.1
Storage: 1 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX® Compatible

MacOS

OS: Any relatively modern version of macOS
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.0
Storage: 1 GB available space

Linux

Processor: Any CPU with SSE2 instruction set support: Intel Pentium 4+, AMD Athlon 64+
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.0
Storage: 1 GB available space

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Dec. 2024

The game is alot of fun. As others have said, Heads Will Roll Mode is how you should play from the start due to Rogue-lite style progression, which will allow you to get stronger over each run, until you can make a genuine badass hero type main character instead of some poopy background militaman. As such get ready to skip (hold ctrl) through lines you've read 10x times, as you repeat the same first three chapters, alot. On the upside you will have a powerful PC in HWR mode quickly if you start in that mode off the bat, and then a flat out overpowered one not long after with accumulated points. The general gameplay loop is fun. Combat is engaging, then once you get powerful it's brainless, but still serviceable and mostly fun. Crafting system is simple and works fine, and allows you to break the game/economy if used right (a common theme with crafting in RPGs). Now here is where I let off my criticisms. As others have said you tend to get sick of replaying the first 2-3 chapters when you're grinding your early HWR runs to build up your OP super character, and it would be cool if there was some more variety in those early story bits (At the time of writing a DLC is coming out within 2 weeks that is supposed to add more branching story paths, but at this moment I can't say). I sometimes have an issue with the writing, and considering it's a text based RPG it's hard to ignore at times. Some plot points and characters can feel a bit cheap, some are one dimensional, and others are obvious cliches (Olivia I'm looking at you, just as an example). Stuff that sometimes comes off a bit like a cheap fantasy/romance novel. This isn't objectively bad writing if I'm being fair, but personally I wanted more of a historical/realistic and gritty vibe from the story, especially with the historical context of war that this entire game is set in, so these things tended to throw me off... Then the romance.... is either out of place or straight cringe in every instance I've seen so far. Very poorly written female characters that feel like they come right out of some dime smut novel, but I know degens like that stuff in their RPGs even if it's unrealistic or written cheaply. I mean they have a nudity DLC, softcore feet as one of the store page pictures, and in the description the MC is surrounded by all romance characters like a harem ffs... so they clearly are marketing to that audience to a degree which I think only cheapens this game as a product in the long run. I'll concede some of this is down to subjective tastes, and from what I've seen English is not the first language for these devs so maybe some of those cringe moments came down to translation not having the proper words to convey the emotions. It hasn't made me stop playing in any case but it's a bit jarring when I can't tell if I'm in a gritty realistic drama/war story or a cliche romance novel. In any case, if you even somewhat like these types of games, this is for sure a game you can sink alot of time into over multiple runs, fun enough to hook me into sinking a full day (about 9 hours) into the game on my first day owning it over the holiday weekend.

Sept. 2024

Overall Experience: A Truly Unique and Great Hidden Gem Played for 20+ hours so far. About Description Pros [*]Immersive flash-style RPG game with multiple endings. [*]High replayability roguelite mode. [*]Passionate Dev, you can tell this game contains this man’s heart and soul. Definitely expect more to come from this team. Cons [*] Unless you’re 30+ years old and played a bunch of flash games when you were a child, I think the flash UI is too inconvenient for modern gamers and thus deters many people from trying this game. The initial difficulty curve is also quite brutal and not very rewarding because you’ll most likely fail 60% of the prompts as a randomly generated character. [*]There is minimal handholding and the game even tells you that this is for “survival”. The game doesn’t really give you any breathing room if you plan on doing some of the quests as a randomly generated peasant. The power fantasy part of the game comes after you die many, many times. [*]Some of the trinkets don't explain what they do (e.g., Fair Maiden Medallion) and I couldn’t find any information online either. [*]Need translation to multiple languages at some point. I bet this thing does well if it has a Chinese version. [*]The font style takes a long time to get used to; maybe add an option to change it to a less harsh font. Conclusion I’m glad that I accidentally stumbled upon this gem. It brought back a lot of memories of playing old flash games. If you’re bored with all the similarly looking AAA games, this is a great change of scene, and you can really slow down and enjoy the vision that the dev wanted you to see. The best thing about this game is the dev team because you know they read these reviews, and they’ll definitely improve the experience somewhere down the line.

Sept. 2024

Production values are amateurish, the writing is serviceable at best, and desperately needs an editor, but: what this game lacks in execution, it makes up in soul. Somebody had a vision and genuine enthusiasm for what they did, and it shines through. Now, I dunno about you, but I'll choose raw amateur product over the polished up-an-coming indie darling any day of the week. Thoroughly recommended.

Aug. 2024

At the time of this writing, I have played 68.2 hours and purchased the Happily Ever After DLC. Game is great overall. Huge replay value with the Heads Will Roll difficulty and honestly feels like the way the game is meant to be played. Lots of reading, but easy to follow along with and doesn't make me cringe. There are multiple endings and I'm still finding new choices 60+ hours in that'll take me to an entirely different location I've never seen before. Combat is fun with endless possibilities to maim, dismember, and rupture internal organs. I do have some gripes with the game, however. There are multiple grammatical and spelling errors throughout the dialogues, even in the DLC. It's not totally non-cohesive, but there are enough to make me wonder why this is still an issue to this day. I also wish the combat had some more gore/animations. Despite having some flavor text (i.e. "Hand chopped off!", "Head cut off!", "Artery Cut!"), I think it would be interesting to see the characters change appearance based upon damage/condition. Looking forward to getting the Not a Hero DLC and getting into even more trouble! For $15 (or less on sale), you get a game that will captivate you for hours on end and will have you coming back for more! Also, the 18+ DLC is free so y'know - that's a plus

May 2024

Underrated gem. If you play on the hardest difficulty (the intended one), the turn-based combat is brutal and unforgiving. It's pretty fun, though. You'll get wrecked at first, but over time you can create stronger guys. The story and writing are great (despite spotty grammar/translation sometimes). There are lots of different choices and they feel impactful. You play as a conscripted peasant in a war between England and France, just trying to survive. If you do well, you might climb the ladder. But you'll probably die.

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-57% 12.49€ 5.37€

8.3

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Developer

1917 Studios

Publisher

Valkyrie Initiative

Release 04 Oct 2023

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