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Hero's Hour
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 41% of owners
Steam reviews 79% positive of 5,762
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (43%); after 7h it's 1 in 7 (15%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 41% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 5,813 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 18.8h for positive, 4.1h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (41.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (61)
story milestone ending side
- Greed is Good Acquire a treasure elemental 100%
- First Win Win an Easy difficulty game 98%
- Archmage Learn an adventure map spell at an Archmage Tribunal 91%
- Flawless Win a battle without taking casualties 88%
- Architect Fully develop a town 82%
- Hero's Hour Win a Normal difficulty game 72%
- King Have a hero reach level 20 69%
- Desperado Defeat a near impossible enemy army 66%
- Ancient Power Have three artifacts in a set 65%
- God Achieve rank 5 in a hero skill 62%
- Scrooge Have 100000 gold 56%
- Fully Loaded Have a hero with an artifact in all equipment slots 49%
- Theresa Save 500 creatures using infirmaries and hospitals in a single game 41%
- Showdown Enter combat against an enemy player with at least 2000 power worth of army 38%
- Champion Win a 5+ player game 32%
- Idolatry Create an Idol 31%
- I can do this alone! Win a game without hiring a hero 30%
- Back in Order Win a game as Order (normal or harder) 29%
- Man Made God Have a hero with a sum of attack, defence, knowledge and spellpower above 100 29%
- Bestiary Encounter 95% of all rare creatures 26%
- Death's Door Win a game as Decay (normal or harder) 26%
- Challenge Accepted Win a Challenging difficulty game 22%
- Hell on Earth Win a game as Pyre (normal or harder) 22%
- Embrace Death Use a Forlorn Cloister with your highest levelled hero 21%
- No time to waste Win a game before week 3 21%
- True Evil Put 200 power worth of units to work at a Slave Pens 19%
- Adventurer Encounter 95% of all adventure buildings 19%
- Going Wild Win a game as Wild (normal or harder) 19%
- Liberation Win a game as Horde (normal or harder) 18%
- Reviving Legend Complete a full artifact set 18%
- Magic over Might Win a game as Arcane (normal or harder) 18%
- Pillar Reformed Win a game as Pillar (normal or harder) 18%
- Earthen Arise Win a game as Earthen (normal or harder) 17%
- A Final Lament Win a game as Lament (normal or harder) 17%
- Exclave Win a game as Enclave (normal or harder) 17%
- Wilderness Control 10 overgrown mines 16%
- Any% PB Win a game in less than 30 minutes 16%
- Magus of Magi Encounter 95% of all spells 15%
- Rising Tides Win a game as Tide (normal or harder) 15%
- Emperor Have a hero reach level 30 14%
- Hordes of Hell Recruit 666 Pyre units in one game 14%
- Power of Elementals Defeat a challenging enemy in battle using only elementals 14%
- Challenge Complete Win a Hardcore difficulty game 14%
- Chicken Dinner Win a 7-player game 13%
- Dragonbane Defeat the red dragon in Skirmish mode 13%
- Magicphobia Win a game without casting magic 12%
- Culture Conversion Convert a town to a faction you did not start as 11%
- Literacy Enter combat with a hero that uses the most overpowered Rune 11%
- Speedrunner Win a game in less than 15 minutes 10%
- Nudist Run Win a game without any artifacts 9.2%
- Dragonspeaker Acquire a dragon via Diplomacy 8.9%
- Patience Win a game on the Patience map in less than 24 real-time hours 8.9%
- No Fear Defeat the ghost larvae in Skirmish mode 8.0%
- All Grown Up Bloodwarp a Hatchling into a Seraph 7.2%
- Killing the Beast Defeat the black dragons in Skirmish mode 7.2%
- Collector Encounter 95% of all artifacts 5.8%
- Insatiable Devour a Black Dragon 5.8%
- Shadowpower Cast Shadowcasting while your hero has 50 or more spellpower 5.8%
- Puzzle Master Win a game on Hardcore+ and with hamlet starting conditions 5.3%
- Scrying Find an obelisk treasure with just 1 clue 5.3%
- Completionist Achieve 95% of all achievements 3.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.