Games like Hero's Hour
If Hero's Hour is your kind of game, the closest matches are Songs of Conquest, Wargroove and Boardquest: Tales of Liria — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its pixel aesthetic, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Hero's Hour is a turn-based strategy RPG released in 2022 by developer Benjamin "ThingOnItsOwn" Hauer, published by Goblinz Publishing and Maple Whispering Limited, priced at $17.99. The game combines auto-battler mechanics with deck-building elements, featuring procedurally generated maps, faction-politics, and tactical combat. Players develop cities and armies while leveling up heroes to acquire new spells and skills. The title supports local co-op and includes a built-in level editor. Reviewers highlight the pixel-aesthetic as a notable draw, and players describe the game as both immersive and nostalgic, with tactical positioning playing a significant role in combat encounters. The game is verified to run on Steam Deck and holds an 81% positive rating from 2,437 Steam reviews.
About Hero's Hour: A fast turn-based strategy RPG with real-time combat. Develop your cities and armies, level up your heroes to gain new, powerful spells and skills, and explore the wonders and dangers of the procedurally generated maps as you aim to conquer your enemies before they do the same to you.
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Songs of Conquest
WHY THIS
Shares tactical combat, faction politics and a nostalgic mood with Hero's Hour.
Top pick for Hero's Hour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hero's Hour.
Raise mighty armies, wield ancient magic and forge an empire. This turn-based strategy adventure game fuses strategic decision making, tactical combat and kingdom management.
Wargroove
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics with Hero's Hour.
Second-strongest match for Hero's Hour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hero's Hour.
Take to the battlefield with Wargroove, a strategy game for up to 4 players! Choose your Commander and wage turn-based war on battling factions. Design and share maps, cut-scenes and campaigns with easy-to-use editors and in-depth customization tools!
Boardquest: Tales of Liria
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hero's Hour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hero's Hour.
Lead Orcs, Humans, Elves, or Demons toward victory over Liria in this turn-based strategy for 1-4 players. Advance your skills, wield powerful weapons, and form alliances to defeat your foes. Bring peace over Liria with the solo campaign or face your friends in a local or online multiplayer.
This Is Not Chess
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Ranked #4 for Hero's Hour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hero's Hour.
A turn-based tactics game about goofy characters with wide and varied techniques duking it out across a bright and colourful battlefield.
Bandit Life
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Ranked #5 for Hero's Hour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hero's Hour.
Lead a band of misfits through a turn-based adventure filled with blood, ambushes, and hard choices. Clash with rival camps, expand your influence, trade, build, and raid to become the most infamous bandit in history.
ZEPHON
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Hero's Hour.
Ranked #6 for Hero's Hour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hero's Hour.
From the developers of Warhammer 40,000: Gladius, ZEPHON is a post-apocalyptic 4X strategy game built on Proxy’s unique tactical combat system. Guide survivors through a turbulent future, navigating unexpected disasters, eldritch horror and cyberpunk monstrosities. What will you do to survive?
Wargroove 2
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics with Hero's Hour.
Ranked #7 for Hero's Hour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hero's Hour.
Trouble stirs on the shores of Aurania. An ambitious new faction has unearthed forbidden relics capable of catastrophic consequences. But how far will they go to achieve glory? Take to the battlefield, sea, and sky with a cast of new Commanders, using your wits to wage turn-based war!
Crawl Tactics
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Hero's Hour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hero's Hour.
Crawl Tactics combines classic turn-based tactics with roguelike progression. In Dungeon Mode, face challenging, ever-changing encounters as you explore procedurally generated maps. In Quest Mode, develop your village, train your mercenaries, and defend against growing enemy invasions.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hero's Hour at current Steam store prices.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~44% under Hero's Hour on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Hero's Hour.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~72% under Hero's Hour on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Hero's Hour.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Hero's Hour on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hero's Hour.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~65% under Hero's Hour on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hero's Hour.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Hero's Hour on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hero's Hour.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Hero's Hour on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hero's Hour.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
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Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Hero's Hour.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Hero's Hour.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Hero's Hour.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Hero's Hour.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Songs of Conquest
WHY THIS
Shares tactical combat, faction politics and a nostalgic mood with Hero's Hour.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hero's Hour.
Raise mighty armies, wield ancient magic and forge an empire. This turn-based strategy adventure game fuses strategic decision making, tactical combat and kingdom management.
Wargroove 2
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics with Hero's Hour.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Hero's Hour.
Trouble stirs on the shores of Aurania. An ambitious new faction has unearthed forbidden relics capable of catastrophic consequences. But how far will they go to achieve glory? Take to the battlefield, sea, and sky with a cast of new Commanders, using your wits to wage turn-based war!
Crawl Tactics
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hero's Hour.
Crawl Tactics combines classic turn-based tactics with roguelike progression. In Dungeon Mode, face challenging, ever-changing encounters as you explore procedurally generated maps. In Quest Mode, develop your village, train your mercenaries, and defend against growing enemy invasions.
Frequently asked about Hero's Hour
- Is Hero's Hour verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Hero's Hour is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Hero's Hour cost?
- Hero's Hour is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Hero's Hour have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Hero's Hour supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Hero's Hour?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hero's Hour are Songs of Conquest, Wargroove, Boardquest: Tales of Liria.
- Who developed Hero's Hour?
- Hero's Hour was developed by Benjamin "ThingOnItsOwn" Hauer and published by Goblinz Publishing, Maple Whispering Limited.
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