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Heroes of Steel RPG

Heroes of Steel is a tactical RPG set in a grim post-apocalyptic fantasy world. Coordinate your party of four heroes in turn-based combat and navigate a engaging world and story.

2014 Indie RPG Strategy ★ Mostly Positive
Heroes of Steel RPG

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Guides

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Heroes of Steel Beginner Guide — Your First Hours

Heroes of Steel can be tough on newcomers, but a balanced party and careful tactics make it manageable. This beginner guide covers the essentials: field all four roles, keep your warrior in front and your fragile heroes back, use your healer wisely, and spend talents to build on each hero's strengths. You will learn how positioning, abilities and party synergy decide fights, how to develop your heroes through talents and gear, and how to survive your first episodes.

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Heroes of Steel Classes Tier List — Best Roles Ranked

Heroes of Steel gives you four party roles — warrior, healer, rogue and sorcerer — and the strongest teams understand what each does best. This tier list ranks the roles by how central and reliable they are to a winning party, while stressing that a balanced team of all four beats any lopsided one. You will learn why the warrior and healer anchor most parties, where the sorcerer's area damage and the rogue's strikes fit, and how to read the tiers as guidance rather than a reason to skip a role.

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Heroes of Steel Combat Guide — Win Tactical Battles

Combat in Heroes of Steel is genuine tactical RPG fare, and winning comes from playing it deliberately. This guide covers the essentials: hold a front line with your warrior, protect your fragile heroes, combine your party's abilities, focus the right targets, and manage healing and resources so fights go your way. You will learn how positioning and turn order shape battles, how to use each hero's powers together rather than just attacking, and how to read a fight so you win it.

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Heroes of Steel Party Guide — Build Your Best Team

Your party is everything in Heroes of Steel, and a well-built team carries the whole campaign. This guide covers choosing your four heroes, picking the right character for each role, developing them with focused talents and gear, and building the synergies that make a party stronger than its parts. You will learn how to assemble a balanced team, how to specialise each hero through talents, gear them for their job, and grow your party from a serviceable group into a formidable force.

Overview

What's the Game?

Heroes of Steel is a tactical RPG set in a grim post-apocalyptic fantasy world. Coordinate your party of four heroes in turn-based combat and navigate a engaging world and story.

A deep four-hero party

— A warrior, healer, rogue and sorcerer, each with talent trees, that must work together to survive.

Challenging tactical combat

— Turn-based fights where positioning, abilities and party synergy genuinely matter.

A long, episodic story

— Four major story episodes across a grim fantasy world, with plenty of content for the price.

Excellent value

— A great deal of tactical RPG content for a typically low price.

Honest caveats

— Dated, mobile-rooted presentation and an uneven, sometimes grindy pace.

English only

— No Japanese, Korean or Chinese, and fairly text-heavy.

Trailer

Trailer

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Screenshots

Screenshots

Languages

Supported Languages

Language Interface Audio Subtitles
English

Spec

System Requirements

Windows

Minimum

Minimum: OS *: Windows XP, Windos Vista, or Windows 7 / 8 / 10 Memory: 1024 MB RAM Graphics: Requires OpenGL 2.0 or higher Storage: 250 MB available space

Recommended

Recommended: OS: Windows 10 Processor: 2.0+ Ghz Memory: 2048 MB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 or higher Storage: 250 MB available space

macOS

Minimum

Minimum: OS: Latest macOS Version Only Processor: 1.2 Ghz Memory: 1048 MB RAM Graphics: Requires OpenGL 2.0 or higher Storage: 250 MB available space

Recommended

Recommended: OS: Latest macOS Version Only Processor: 2.0+ Ghz Memory: 2048 MB RAM Graphics: Requires OpenGL 2.0 or higher Storage: 250 MB available space

Linux

Minimum

Minimum: OS: Ubuntu 14+ Processor: 1.2 Ghz (32 or 64-bit) Memory: 1024 MB RAM Graphics: Requires OpenGL 2.0 or higher Storage: 250 MB available space

Recommended

Recommended: OS: Ubuntu 20 Processor: 2.0 Ghz (32 or 64-bit) Memory: 2048 MB RAM Graphics: Requires OpenGL 2.0 or higher Storage: 250 MB available space

Achievements

Achievement Highlights

Battle Adepts Battle Adepts
Escapees Escapees
God's Wrath God's Wrath
Heroes Heroes
Known Known
Leaders Leaders
Legends Legends
Save Oskahold Save Oskahold
Veterans Veterans
Warlords Warlords

FAQ

FAQ

A turn-based tactical RPG from Trese Brothers, set in a grim fantasy world. You lead a party of four heroes — a warrior, a healer, a rogue and a sorcerer — through a story-driven campaign, fighting tactical turn-based battles and developing your characters with talents and gear. It is single-player, was built for mobile first, and tells its story across four major episodes.
It can be genuinely challenging, especially on higher difficulties, since positioning, ability use and party synergy all matter and careless play gets heroes killed. It offers a range of difficulty settings, so you can tune the challenge, and it is fair rather than punishing — but it expects you to engage with its systems and build your party thoughtfully rather than brute-forcing fights.
You field four heroes covering the core roles — a warrior to hold the front, a healer to keep everyone alive, a rogue for damage and utility, and a sorcerer for spells and area attacks. Each role has a couple of characters to choose from, and every hero has its own talents and abilities. The classes are designed to work together, so a balanced party that uses its synergies is far stronger than four heroes fighting separately.
It is a lengthy game, told across four major story episodes, each opening up more of the world with new locations, items and challenges, so there is a great deal of content for the low price. Exactly how long depends on your pace and difficulty, but players invest many hours across the full story. For the cost, the amount of tactical RPG content is one of its strongest points.
No. The Steam store lists English only, with no official Japanese, Korean or Chinese localization, and the game is fairly text-heavy in its story, dialogue, talents and item descriptions. Non-English players should weigh the language barrier before buying, since following the story and understanding abilities depends on reading the text.

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