The Heroes Around Me

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 3 languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and English.

It has received 612 reviews of which 589 were positive and 23 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 Indie 1990's Emotional Retro Exploration Immersive Sim Life Sim Cinematic Singleplayer Walking Simulator Adventure Conversation Dog Atmospheric

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Requirements

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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

Reviews

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Jan. 2025

I laugh when they recreate Metal Gear Classic gameplay. hahaha. nice one. that's unexpected

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.

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.

Oct. 2024

Edit: The developers have added an English translation recently, which I haven't played through, so I cannot verify how good it is. Please note that that part of the review is outdated. A very sentimental and short story about a single father raising a daughter in China in the 1990s. There's no English, so if you plan to try it, you had better be able to read some basic Chinese and get used to the dialect, which is a bit colloquial. For example, they use 莫 instead of 别 and 仔 instead of 子. I'm pretty sure I've never seen "娃仔" being used this much before, but it's probably more common in China. There really isn't much gameplay, being a walking simulator with an extremely linear story, and the only real purpose of letting you wander around town is to allow the player to bask in nostalgia. The storytelling is also extremely Chinese, meaning it's told in short and disjointed fragmented vignettes which may annoy people not used to the style. It is a disturbingly accurate depiction of small-town Chinese life in semi-rural conditions. My parents having grown up in a small town like this in Malaysia, it felt quite authentic to me as a reader and made me a bit nostalgic for the days when community was the hallmark of human society and everyone knew one another in a town. I enjoyed it rather a lot for this reason alone - the NPCs feel like authentic human beings and aren't perfect, right down from the horrible teacher in school to the nice one. It is ultimately a moving story about self-sacrifice and patience, where a diligent (but imperfect) father tries his very best to become a good one. Buy it if you're curious about what small-town humble life was like in rural China before the Internet came along and ruined everything and the USA decided to go on a crusade to convince everyone that the Chinese people are stupid/unethical/evil and sly genocide-supporting cultists. You might even develop empathy for them, and what a loss that would be to the CIA's efforts.

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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6.89€

9.0

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Developer

OKJOY

Publisher

OKJOY

Release 14 Jun 2024

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