Action · January 29, 2014

Hero Siege (2014)

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Step into Tarethiel, a world under siege by the Forces of Hell. Face Demon Lords, ancient monstrosities and fallen angels as you hack and slash your path through endless hordes of the undead. Hero Siege is a fast paced Pixel Art ARPG featuring an expansive roster of unique classes, deep build experimentation, and a player driven economy. Craft your hero through two main skill trees and individual sub-skill trees that reshape how every active ability works. Combined with a massive item pool and powerful crafting options, the game offers limitless build possibilities; from blood hungry melee bruisers and bow wielding archers to gun slinging demon slayers, sentry engineers, summoners, spell casting mages and everything in between. Hero Siege evolves in seasonal cycles every four months, delivering fresh content, new systems, items, events, and quality of life improvements. As a small, experienced team, we work closely with our community to improve the game based directly on valuable player feedback. Key Features 23 Playable Character classes  Every class offers its own unique play style and skill set. Sub-skills and item based modifiers allow you to push your build in unique and creative directions. 1000+ Unique Items  Loot ranges from randomized magic items all the way to handcrafted Satanic, Set, Heroic, Angelic and Unholy items. Runewords can be created using white bases with sockets. Items can be buffed, crafted and modified in various ways through the crafting system. Tarethiel Market  Travel to Village of Mos'Arathim to List your items for sale or buy gear from other players in real time. Trading is a core part of character progression and build crafting. Adventure Journal  A fully integrated in game encyclopedia containing mechanics, unique items, runewords, prospecting recipes, crafting recipes and augments. Endless Replayablity  Designed for seasonal play. Each season adds new content such as: items, bosses, gimmicks and surprises from our development team. Wormholes  Push your character as high as possible and earn seasonal cosmetic rewards such as skins, wings, portraits and more. BIG NO-NO for Pay to Win  We never sell game play advantages. Fair competition is a core value for us.

Action releases from 2014

146 Action titles launched in 2014 — top 6 by review volume.

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume43.5k Steam reviewsTop 14% in Action
Positive rating69% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 88%
Concurrent peak369 playersTop 18% in Action by live player count
Engagement hours23 h averageTop 21% for session depth among Action

Peer Action titles

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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Action RPG · 722
  • Pixel Graphics · 709
  • Hack and Slash · 708
  • Action Roguelike · 693
  • RPG · 682
  • Multiplayer · 522
  • Co-op · 485
  • Action · 469
  • Indie · 467
  • Adventure · 464
  • Rogue-like · 462
  • 2D · 460
  • Top-Down · 458
  • Local Co-Op · 454
  • Rogue-lite · 451

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • Co-op
  • Online Co-op
  • Shared/Split Screen Co-op
  • Shared/Split Screen
  • Cross-Platform Multiplayer

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • In-App Purchases

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (8)

  • English volume_up
  • Finnish
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • German volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • German

Reception Metrics

Steam community

69%Mixed · 43.5k reviews

30.0k positive · 13.5k negative

Curator recommendations

34.3k

Peak concurrent players

369

Press Quotes

“Fun and addictive gameplay, great graphics and sound” 95/100 – Cub Like Foot “THE HERO SIEGE EXPERIENCE IS AN IMPRESSIVE ONE.” 100/100 – Game Maker Blog “Hack'N'Slash at its best!!” 87/100 – IGN

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

23h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

4h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

0h

Current engagement

Achievements

112

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateJan 29, 2014
DeveloperPanic Art Studios Ltd
Base price$1.59 -80%
DLC / Add-ons5 released
PlatformsWindows, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksSupport · [email protected]

Editions & Packages

  • Buy Hero Siege