Hero Siege

I bought this game when it released in 2014. It was a completely different game back then (and that's no exaggeration; it is unrecognizable now). Now there are microtransactions everywhere and the game is completely changed. This bait and switch crap should be enough to get you delisted on Steam. Stay far away from these filthy devs.

Remembered the game I've been playing for a while several years ago. Wanted to play it again. Bought the game. Got a boring piece of brown cake. Feeling scammed..

"server issues" my ass.
This is an amazing game, and even if the balance isn't perfect, no isometric is, and this one by far has the most interactive and engaging fixed class system I've seen.
Ignore the haters, play HS.

Don't be fooled by the mixed reviews--this game is absolutely fantastic. If you are an ARPG fan you owe it to yourself to try this out, especially so if having actually rare and powerful gear like D2/PoE1 appeals to you.

Character builds are pretty similar to D2 skill trees. End game is also D2 inspired, based on ramping difficulties of the campaign zones with 1 zone every hour receiving special mods (like D2:R).

Gear really shines in this game. Tons of interesting uniques to grind for in targeted zones. Runewords also exist, from low-level gear bandaids, to a new version of enigma, to very powerful end game runewords to aspire to.

Devs are active in discord and listen to player feedback, and fast to respond when issues in game occur.

This game is it. It's so fun and it's not afraid to let you have that fun. It's worth your time 100% if anything I've mentioned sounds interesting to you.

I got banned for cheating or some shit.
Played only 5hours. I didnt cheat for shit.
Talked to support and they didnt give two fucks about it they just sayd that i cheated in the game??
Asking about what cheat did i use or even how.
Didnt get any answer.
So that was fun like 20buckz down the train with dlcs.

was asked by a poe player as a poe player to play this game.

this is a 2d game that runs worse than poe2. leveling a new character entails running from point A to point B with no real story to speak of. the content is so braindead easy that the moment you get any amount of damage upgrades you just plow through the game. the bosses are the most one dimensional encounters in the game. at least normal mobs keep you on your toes by exploding constantly upon death. endgame is praying for high tier runes or "uniques" to drop, except the good uniques are like tier 1/0 poe drops. the gear crafting in this game is also just fiding runes and socketing them into items for a specific set of gear affixes, the stronger ones being gated by incredibly rare currency drops. economy is unfortunately ran by a small group of players that constantly buy up everything and relist for unrealistic gold amounts for a new or casual player. I cannot imagine how many hours it would take for an SSF player to progress to "endgame." I would sooner recommend maplestory than this game

3/10, the weapon and armor sprites are really well done

I began playing this game a while back. I put 25 hours into it. When season 6 rolled around the developer decided add back in 15% death penalty to EXP (previously removed because no one liked the mechanic). This is down right a horrible mechanic. On top of that, they nerfed everything in terms of hit on life and other areas of survivability.

Quite honestly, before this most recent smash to the game, it was fun. I invested money in slots for inventory/stash. I have no problem with that. However, introducing a mechanic that sucks your progression from you is just stupid. I find that too many developers tend to go this route with ARPGs for literally no reason, with almost no one I have ever spoken to enjoying the aftermath (i.e., just recently POE 2 nerfed the crap out of their EA). I will check back in the future to see if things changed for the better with the game direction. However, as of now, dying super quickly, where once the game gave you the means to feel powerful, is just overall a let down. As part of the most recent nerf, the devs nerfed resistances for players, life on hit, and a t on of other areas that did not need to have that happen. Inflating the time it takes to level and get stronger is a piss poor design and literally destroys the fun. I really hope the developers think long and hard about adding archaic

This Game should have a much higher Review-Rating! If u like farming and a really good progression curve, then play this game! I played 160hrs in 3 weeks and there are still things I WANT to farm and still having fun playing. Its very similar to d2!

Most bad reviews are not about the game itself, rather its about server issues on launch or that the devs are sometimes weird in terms of communication. Also the game started as a Rougelite and then transitioned to a farming ARPG. Also some ppl don't like the paid classes -> Here just wait for a sale (every month) and get all classes + game for like 16$. So you will get many many hours for just 16$, in my opinion thats for sure worth it!

If u can just ignore the drama around the game and just want to play a good ARPG, PLAY Hero Siege now!

141+ hours on this game just to feel horrible gameplay i have never found this Arpg rouge lite like this comparing this to death must die, death must die are still fun to have grind. I wouldn't recommend to buy the game or dlc at full price get them on 80℅ off you have no reason to grind your character or build up cause you are force to buy items from market and GET THE GOLD FROM MARKET cause NPC shop give you nothing for high loot tier items they sell you for nothing and give it back at really high price. I do have find hard grind game but this are IMPOSSIBLE to do it "its gonna take a bit of time" NO this game more than usual rouge like game you will need ALOT of hours more like 1000+ HOURS

Not recommend at all wasting your time alone on this game have some friend to play with it

3/10 gameplay experience, Totally bad review I've ever had

Really fun game, but costs way more than its worth. If there were still productive developments going on, and it didnt cost an arm and a leg just to have some of the features in the game that you should be able to unlock in game, this would be a favorite. Instead im left feeling remorse anytime I play this game because of the potential it has, but instead its just a money sinc. The game is fun, but I would not recommend this on account of its in game costs.

This game used to be fun. It lost it's soul. They really did put in effort, but they replaced fun with more in depth mechanics, and made it kinda meh. Not to mention the forced third party applications to play it.
I'm not installing random software not at least approved by steam.

I used to get excited and buy dlc's upon release, but there's better games to waste my money on. If they decide to do something interesting like allowing hybrid classes like Grim Dawn does, I can't ignore something like that.

I never cared about the mp scene. I loved back when I'd get to access sheeponia and have to decide if I can try cheesing the sheep or if I should progress with the story and get more powerful and more powerful items etc.
Right now it feels more like a generic failing dungeon crawler with little trace of the goofy fun game it started out as, that no matter how things went you wanted to play more. I was there from before they redesigned how weapons work. I was there from before they remade the maps to be significantly larger. I was there from before they added quests. It lost to much of itself along the way.

To anyone reading this, maybe that generic soulless feeling is exactly what you wanted in a game.

Game is fun but can't recommend due to bad balancing issue later on in the game. To unlock last diff you have to kill 2 bosses. To farm a key for 1 boss can take you literal weeks of grind. So despite ur character being strong enough for the last diff you are being artificially cucked by inordinate amount of grinding minibosses you literally oneshot. Kinda meh + most of the mechanics are gated behind different characters which are also paid to boot. Buy only heeavily discounted.

This a dogshit version of Path of Exile, and you have to pay to play this garbage game. Very clunky, On some bosses you can't even see what spells they are using because the field of view is so bad. Jumping is awful and buggy. Skip this game and go play any other ARPG.

11 year old game feels like beta, can't find friend's sessions even though I haven't that problem day before. UI/UX is terrible, bossing is ridiculous when needing to run 4-5 zones to get back if you get oneshotted by pixel-precision mechanic in a cluttered screen. Lv 50 character doing Nightmare level just fine as long as mobs don't have projectiles - they oneshot you even if you are few levels apart or above.
Fine if you are looking to waste time like me, if you want something engaging, just don't bother with this one

Farm 30/50 hours to try uber boss to try to get to inferno mode
Farm 50/60 hourse to get gear to try to kill uber boss
Proceed to go to boss, bt it bugs and kills me istantly while on one of the tankiest build in current season

proceed to close the game
uninstall and never come back

This game has gone through so many revisions and reconstructions that it's lost on me what version we're at now.

Playing this before the current iteration was pretty fun but now I got no clue what they're doing with the game anymore and I'm kinda sad to see the game I paid for just completely change to something I'm not interested in.

Honestly looks like a cool game but unfortunately, the game has decided to revert to a display setting that i have not chosen, it has reverted to a very small resolution and is the size of a phone and it has become borderless which causes my mouse to leave the screen each time i try to go to the Options tab, there is no possible way to fix this as ive tried various solutions but all else seem to fail, ive even uninstalled and reinstalled

Oh nice ARPG for sale let's check it out.
Buying the game - ✔

Wait a minute, most of the classes are locked.
It's cool, probably you need to finish the campaign to unlock them, like every other ARPG.

!!!WRONG!!!

You just bought the game? Cool.
Now buy 12 DLC's for each class.
That's 36,83€ with 50% discount (70€+ without)

Oh and we have last act for sale, that's extra 8.79€
Want stash space? Got you covered... 💳💳💳

Pathetic.
Cometic Shop button on main menu, has all classes for sale (cosmetic right?) and ofc p2w trash.

No thanks.

Better than D4. Game has nice pixel art, many content and many fun classes. Only downside for me is the stash tabs prices especially the Uniques tabs. Other than that, worth the price of the game to kill time.

Before you buy, the game is pretty fun, it's like a roguelite + D2, but the monetization system is a joke, they have paid characters, stash tabs, expansions, inventory tabs, etc.

I already knew about it before buying it, but it's worse than i expected. I know it's only like 2€ on sale, but if you expect a full game. or you don't want to support predatory practices, this is a pass.

Also apparently they completely revamped the game and a lot of people were really dissapointed, so it's kinda scary to invest in it.

buggy ahh game cant even select region ive restarted it 14 times please work on your coding skills!

Do you like perma on death effects? Do you like being shotgunned by them? Do you like terrible boss cooldown optimization? Do you like constantly being stuck on random objects? Do you like incorrect map display? Do you like extremely bad controller support? Oh boy do I have a game for you.

This game is fun when it works, but sadly most of the time something will be wrong. Amount of bugs I've encountered in one playthrough is higher than I've encountered in last 5 years in all games combined. This game is 11 years old. 11. Yet there is absurd amount of bugs. Just look through discord amount of reported bugs that go multiple years in the past that are STILL present. Small studio blabla. That's not an issue of the player. Look how predatory their monetization is, but they can't invest anything into any bug fixing. But man controller is funniest thing ever. You can jump and move around map faster, and you can control range of the jump by holding left thumb and adjusting it with right thumb. Sounds good right? Well... skills get impacted by that as well. Skills arent being auto thrown at the range of enemy, but based on that range you set. Why is that an issue? ENEMIES are FAST, you will constantly get swarmed, and if range is set to anything but very close to you you are 100% dead. But if you set it close to you, your jump becomes useless. Only good thing is that you can change keybinds for most controller keys, which is a plus. And one of biggest complaints I have.. enemies can track you off screen. Yeah, you killed entire screen and want to clean up inventory? Well no, you won't be able to because random enemies off screen will start chasing you.

Loot filter is usable, nothing crazy but it works. UI/UX IS BAD. Nothing more to say, it's bloated and very unclear. Want to have aura on? Good luck figuring it out. Want to assign skills to hotbar? Well good luck searching through reddit or discord unless you get lucky to left click on existing 2 skills. Such a terrible UX is unexcusable.

Respeccing is cheap so no complaints there, you get 2 presets which is fine.

If you want a purely solo game this is the way to go, otherwise the experience is pretty terrible. Can't actually say if playing together is fun or not because:
1. Can't login to their website to verify email (it's broken apparently)
2. Can't join a friend or be invited because it is bugged
3. Looked through their discord to see if I was doing something wrong and searched for other people who had the same problem to see that they were just told it's bugged and made fun of rather than helped.

This is a small dev with a relatively cheap game, but doesn't seem like they have the resources to make sure key systems work at all.

Game is full of micro-transactions! And it's not only cosmetics, but also game-changing upgrades (like inventory slots, etc..). I have no issues paying for games UP-FRONT, but there should be no micro-transactions inside. It's just annoying! In Hero Siege you can see the little coin icon literally EVERYWHERE.

This games loot filter is buggy AF. In a game where loot matters, the loot filter will highlight a bunch of crap especially stuff you dont need/want. And the presets are dog. I feel the game can be fun but it needs a lot of work. Started playing until act 5 or so and the loot filter just makes me want to uninstall.

Honestly had a good time with the game but I wouldn't recommend getting into. The devs are shit and don't care about their player base. The game itself really is just a cash grab and each season it gets worse. If you do considering buying the game please buy everything when it is on sale most items go for 90% discount. Also keep in mind the game is dead and typically mid season has less than 5000 players on at once which really takes away from the social and market aspects. Alongside that, there is no consistently updated wiki and the only source for information is the given guidebook which doesn't cover much and the discord where only a few know anything.

112.8 Hours put into this game farming up my perfect necro. Was enjoying this game so much! Until season reset and come to find that they dont support off-season to an almost non-existent ability. They bricked two of my build items that showed up as ERROR. and refused to reimburse me for the items that essentially made my build work. if you like restarting every new season this is your game. but if you want to enjoy your characters past that season you are out of luck. Do better Hero Siege. Spent so much money on cosmetics and packs that i will never see back again. Buy this game and its packs at your own risk. Uninstalled this and wont be ever installing it again....

Only got this game cause it was cheap and I wanted to satisfy my ARPG itch. I am a new player to Hero Siege, and after learning about everything that has gone down with the development of this game, I am not really sure I can recommend purchasing this title.

Game is fun so far, but it seems like the development is so volatile that you run the risk of getting the rug pulled from your experience. I would be mad too if I dumped 100s of hours into a game for it to pretty much just 180 turn into a completely different, inferior experience; not to mention getting treated harshly by the own devs you support. Does not take much googling to figure out that these devs SUCK.

I'll probably keep playing it for a bit longer because, well, they did accomplish what they were aiming for; a Diablo clone. Seeing numbers go up and power-leveling is always fun, but I just don't see myself getting heavily invested due to how the devs handle this game.

for $2? Sure, can't really beat that, but I wouldn't recommend throwing any more money to the devs than that.

It’s bad (and boring). Thought it was a good idea to try this game again because it seems they added a lot of content over the years. Surely enough, they did but with…uh, Micro-transactions.

Mistakenly purchased some dlcs because some were on sale. It’s cheap but don’t be like me and spend your money somewhere else. Think twice before getting this. Will be refunding and gonna get something worthwhile playing instead.

Was fun in older versions now it just feels like a scam.
Paid game has most characters and basic features locked behind paywalls(hurr durr dlcs; no.)
Better off throwing your money in a fire pit.

Waited for season 6, cant even complete basic quests in the tutorial, and even though people say you dont need quests to complete the game, its an awful and off putting new player experience. I had such high hopes and the developers cant even get the SECOND quest of the game to work and constant dcs, do not buy, not worth, plan to refund.

the game is awesome but if you want to play seasonal.... run as far as you can they take your 45$ for season token tier 2 and stuff it up their asses but not in the servers

Game is a ton of fun.This season the servers are getting blasted and its causing a lot of issues. They are doing what they can to split servers and add new ones, but they are an extremely small team. Think a lot of the negative reviews come from people not realizing that all the DLC is because its an 11 year old game. Sales happen regularly and you can pick up all the characters + base game for $20.

Its amazing how you can fail a release EACH SEASON.
Worst servers i have seen in any online game which is sad cause the game itself is really fun.

.....The servers are a joke. You disconnect all the time and if you are lucky and you manage to play you may stuck in a conversation with the merchant and the only solution...ALT+F4

Lag is the main boss in this game.

Really i haven't play in worst servers ever. Stay away till they figure out how servers works.

6.0 update broke so many things, removed many mechanics, nerfed so many playstyles, remade inventory system to a copy-paste job of Diablo. removed splitscreen, broke network play, added stash upgrades behind a paywall and wiped characters.

It has been 2 yrs since then, and its still in the same, sorry state, while devs are crying regularly to sell you more micro-transactions, and just to be awful to anyone criticizing.

Broken, incredibly bland game. Update to season six deleted half of my stashed gear and introduced new features like you have to press escape a dozen times to leave the shop interface.

im 15 minutes into the game and already I dont like what I see. While the gameplay, skill system, and loot is okayish. My main issue is that 2/3rds of the playable classes are locked behind a paywall ($5-$8 per character when not on sale). You have to buy each one individually.

Then on top of that the game markets itself as against pay 2 win but then has a awful monetization system:
$5 per inventory expansions
$5 per stash expansions
$5 per material expansions
$5 per socketable expansion
$15 for unique expansion

Then on top of that there is a paid expansion already which has quests and items you cant get without buying the expansion. Tack on $12 skins and $0.50-$1 "companions" and this game just has cash grab written on it. Then they also have a subscription you can purchase on top of that for $4 a month which they lock the ability to rename tabs/inventory, see if an item has dropped because of magic find, rename hero, chat emotes, and cursor skins all behind.

I can defend POE with there tab costs because the content is there and the stash they provide is plenty for most new players and the game is free. Where as this game is $8 not on sale and then as soon as you boot up you get hit with a "well here is more ways to spend money right off the bat"

The devs seem to atleast update it but the monetization I get hit with seeing in the first 15 minutes is a huge turn off for me.

Ill change to positive if the game is good enough to get over that, if its still negative just know that the game was mid or worse. If you do buy it wait until they do another 80% off sale to try it and get it for $1.5 like I did. No shot I was paying $8 for this.

Edit: The loot filter is absolute garbage. You can have it selected to where you dont want Common Axes to show up and even with it set up common axes still show up. The only way to hide loot is using presets which is garbage.

Edit 2: Loot filter is still garbage and doesnt function plus the UI menus are buggy af. took me 3 minutes to exit the shops buy/sell menu

Great game. Hope they fix the issues with too many people playing :P. For the price point these guys have a great game!

The servers are in terrible state, the game is full of bugs. I don't recommend it.

When new season starts, it is impossible to play due to very bad servers. This happens all the seasons. When the servers improve, the review will improve too.

new player experience is trash, first thing you have to do when you start the game is making a custom loot filter and the pre-set filters are trash, tbh filter system in general is bad you can't tell whats good or bad. Items drop 15 levels higher than you so you can't even use the items, not that it matters because you one shot everything until act 3 or something.

Local Co op has been removed and the entire game has been changed from something wholly unique to a live service focused grind. I play live service focused grind ARPGs too, but this is not one I would recommend.

I wouldn't have came back to leave a negative review if I didn't get brought here again by the erroneous Shared / Splitscreen tag.

This game is nice and fun, and I don't really mind some classes being bought as DLC, but the slot limit is really nefarious for a business model. They should at least give players 3 slots.

Soooooo customizable. 7 difficulties, multiple weird instances and events that can happen. 20+ classes. You want something fun and chill in your ARPG section This Is It. 12 years old and Still has thousands of online players at any given time.

While the current version of the game is good, it feels like a bait-and-switch as the game is drastically different than the original version that I paid for. Granted, I only paid a couple bucks for it at the time, so it's not a big loss.

The game used to have some rogue elements to it, where you collect relics that give you different abilities and you could stack and collect a ton of these to build a ridiculously powerful and unique character. Once you learn what each relic does, you can tailor the relic collecting to match a desired build. Once you die, you lose the relics and you start over. All of that is gone now.

The current version of the game is a Diablo clone, and, while pretty good and worth a thumbs up by itself, I miss the old version of the game. I'm guessing they did this because the original game was quick, cheap fun, and probably couldn't retain players for that long. With a Diablo style and purchasable things, it probably makes them more money while retaining players.

I wish I could thumbs up the game while giving the bait-and-switch a thumbs down.

This game has changed so much that it feels like a complete new game??? Dont take me wrong I like what they have done but to be complete fair it should have been a new game.

I just came back playing the game so all this is new change for me. But i do enjoy the game wich feels more like a diablo clone now.

There is alot of hidden paywalls to get a fun experience out of the game. Sure alot of cosmetics and characters but having to pay for:

new looks of ingame interface,
new mouse pointers ingame,
1 extra stash page,
1 extra inventory page,
new colours for name its just DUMB.

In a hurry I decided to support devs work so i bought the Complete Set. Believing all DLC should be inside. WHY? If it states COMPLETE SET purchase, it should include all DLC's wich says DLC ingame. I cant help feeling ripped of 75£ (The package includes the characters and vikings DLC not even all skins. Its wrongly advertized how i see it.)

I can understand if some was to be unlocked by playing and leveling up. And this is why i put thumbs down. BASE game is good but after putting all above faqs its just NO.

To devs: Being greedy as a company hurts more than it supports. All dlc is not listed on steam just open the game and you will be prompted to pay real money obtain stuff that could been made as upgrades for playing time or monsters killed etc.

People complaining that they "removed" expansions seem to be completely unaware that they are part of the base game now, and are found in the same place as they always were:
• Karp of Doom was Act 5, and is still Act 5.
• Depths of Hell was Act 6, and is still Act 6.
• Wrath of Mevis was Act 7, and is still Act 7.
Any Collectors Edition content (which is cosmetic) is STILL there, tied to your account... and is now exclusive to people who bought it before they rolled the expansions into the main game.

As for "never needing to log in", the log in is only for online play, and has ALWAYS been required for online play. You can still play offline as you have always been able to.

The game did go through a pretty major shift in game play mechanics...
It was previously a 'rogue lite' Diablo clone with almost platformer like mechanics -- You would collect up to 30 relics that provided various boosts and abilities, typically obtained from chests at the end of a jumping puzzle/challenge. When you died, even in "softcore", you lost all of your relics and needed to start over again.
Now the game is a more traditional Diablo-clone but with the jump mechanics retained. You no longer lose your relics on death, but are limited to 4 (hich you can level up by collecting copies), as well as your gear.

It would have been nice if they kept the original game as a separate mode offline, but the devs are a small studio and honestly the game has enough interface bugs/issues as-is.

Considering the base game is $7, it's criminal the character dlcs are the same price. There used to be dlcs that would bundle some characters together, but all of that was removed. I just don't understand why there is so much price gouging in this game. My recommendation? If you're selling the game for a cheap price, you should sell dlc packs which bundle the character packs in some way kind of like how Vampire Survivors handles their dlc and pricing.

Price aside, I can't recommend the game in it's current state and it needs a lot of work from what I've seen. There is a very odd amount of "competition" in this game to compete with games like Path of Exile or other mmorpgs, but why? There may be an online mode, but why try to compare this game to other online games which had success for years? I hope someday down the line the developers come together to redesign the game for the valid complaints people have stated in their reviews. There is a reason this game is "mixed".

What this game offers 👍