Heroes of Hammerwatch on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Heroes of Hammerwatch is a rogue-lite action-adventure. Explore and battle your way through procedurally generated levels on your own or with up to 3 friends.

Heroes of Hammerwatch is a rogue-lite, action roguelike and pixel graphics game developed and published by Crackshell.
Released on March 01st 2018 is available on Windows and Linux in 3 languages: English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 9,171 reviews of which 8,051 were positive and 1,120 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 11.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Heroes of Hammerwatch into these genres:

Rogue-lite Action Roguelike Pixel Graphics Co-op Multiplayer RPG Dungeon Crawler Online Co-Op Indie Action Adventure 2D Procedural Generation Hack and Slash Top-Down Rogue-like Bullet Hell Singleplayer Action RPG Fantasy

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System requirements

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Windows

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

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or later
Processor: Intel Core™ Duo or faster
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+
Storage: 500 MB available space

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March 2025

After having played Heroes of Hammerwatch 2, I tried out its predecessor. I was amazed at just how much better it is. Some caveats: HoH1 is not superior in ALL aspects. HoH2 has better music, and convenient features like being able to quit the game with an active run, then resuming said run later. I do miss these from HoH2. What HoH1 IS better at, is gameplay. Put simply, the game designers behind HoH1 knew what they were doing, and the ones behind HoH2 did not; permanent items and equipment slots were a mistake, plentiful health and mana regen were a mistake, the Shadow Curse mechanic was a mistake, elemental resistances split up into four different stats was a mistake, attribute points were a mistake, the ability kits were very poorly balanced and the Warlock's was an unmitigated disaster... HoH2 is a good game, and it is original in that it innovates relative to its predecessor. However, the good parts are not original, and the original parts are not good. HoH1 is excellent, the DLC is excellent, buy all of it.

Feb. 2025

Heroes of Hammerwatch has unique and compelling progression elements that sets it apart from other roguelites and really sucked me into the experience. You have a town that you upgrade with resources you bring back from runs, think like Rogue Legacy or Hades . Upgrading the town gives you new options to permanently increase the stats of your heroes. The different hero classes all feel slightly unique, but generally play similarly to one another; it reminds me of Binding of Isaac in a way, yes, my attacks are different on a different character, but generally I'm playing the same way or simply playing at a slightly different range. The real interesting system here is that progressing through the game on one character grants permanent stat increases to all of your characters, for example, if you beat the first 3 bosses of the game with the paladin you're providing 7 defense to all other characters. This encourages variety because when you start to run into a wall with that paladin, now you can play as a ranger and that 7 defense will allow you to potentially make more progress while providing extra power to your characters as you hit more milestones. I loved my experience, and was totally hooked for the first few times I beat the game. That being said, I completely ran out of steam with Heroes of Hammerwatch because the grind is real. The issue with the grind is that Heroes of Hammerwatch doesn't provide enough skill expression or variety to keep the game feeling fresh. Even if you're the best Heroes of Hammerwatch player in the world, there is no way you're starting a new character on a new save file and have any chance of beating the game on that run, or even the first few runs quite honestly. It's all about that grind of getting more resources and improving your character. There isn't many movement options, I've only played 7/9 classes (the 2 I haven't played are DLC) but only one of those 7 has a movement ability, without movement once you're swarmed or run into a hard boss, your dead (referring to early runs). On the variety side of my point, aside from the characters playing pretty similar to one another, there simply aren't that many items in the game. The items that are here typically don't provide unique effects that change the way you're going to play the run. The stages also don't have much variety, you'll have seen each possible layout for different rooms maybe 20 hours in. Therefore, it's all about your character. Certain people are going to love that grind, and I'm sure that it's plenty more fun if you're playing it co-op with some buddies as well. Even though I'm done focusing most of my gaming attention on it, I can't deny that it's a great "brain off and listening to podcast" type game that I'll return to in the future, and that the game does begin to open up more and provide more challenge in the NG+ runs. The casual experience of beating the game for the first time was still rewarding and entertaining, and I'd recommend it. Recommended If you found my review helpful, please consider following my [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44234346/]Steam Curator page , where you can see more thoughts and recommendations

Jan. 2025

One of my all-time favorite games. I especially recommend it for a group of 2-4 gamers for online co-op play. The short version: rogue-lite, die hundreds of times. Smash and grab everything. Very egalitarian co-op (no friendly fire, loot is shared or reserved for everyone, etc.) If you're grizzled and hardened, you may be determined enough to win the base game. Do that a lot. DLC for hundreds of hours of upgrades to your town etc. Looks old-school with meticulous detail and flavor. You will start off puny and limited, and most critters can shred you, but this game blossoms! It changes pace and scale by your fifth hour, your tenth, your hundredth, your 500th... Play as many classes as you can. (Both Paladin and Priest can heal! Warlock has lifesteal/manasteal!) Each class' progression has a unique benefit to your "guild" (each individual player's roster of characters, including all that you create in the future) which incentivises diverse gameplay. It can be subtle, but one good run with the Priest especially can make a big difference for future runs with all classes. Stick with the main game until you have beaten it at least once and built up your Town and Guild before you think you can run into the Pyramid or [2x-3x for] Moon Temple DLC. Go check out the settlements, sure, but you must be fanatical in order to take the brutality of this DLC. I love controller (two-stick) but friends use mouse/keys just fine. Can't wait for HOH 2! On that note, I played HOH from early release, and they really kept plugging away and polishing this. Hope HOH 2 is as complete, or will keep up with support etc.

Dec. 2024

You play character to make game easier to make game harder to make character better to make game easier to make game harder to make character better to make game easier to make game harder

April 2024

Big ups to the devs for coming back to this to fix multiplayer, i know my friends and i really appreciate it. 100% Recommend this game with working multiplayer.

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11.79€

8.5

8,051

1,120

Online players

100

Developer

Crackshell

Publisher

Crackshell

Release 01 Mar 2018

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