Hero Tale
Idle fantasy RPG with automatic battles and a large skill tree
Weird Johnny Studio · Released Mar 28, 2024
- Reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 70% of 437
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 35
- daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update on Steam
- 1 year ago
- Oct 20, 2025
What is Hero Tale?
Hero Tale is an idle RPG set on a medieval fantasy island, where a fairy helps your character become a hero. You choose map tiles for battles, collect loot, train melee, ranged, or magic skills, spend points in a skill tree, and help characters with quests while the game can run in the background.
For you if...
- +you enjoy developing a character through loot and combat training
- +you like fantasy quests with character dialogue
Not for you if...
- −you want combat that needs your constant attention
- −you prefer brisk progress over extended idle sessions
What players say
70% of 437 reviews are positive
Some players enjoy the idle progression, but many say later progress becomes a grind and skill-tree choices have little impact.
Players over time
▲ +8% vs a month agoPlayers online on Steam, one sample a day.
Highest since Sep 2026: 46 players on Oct 11, 2026.
Show the data
| Day | Players |
|---|---|
| Nov 7, 2026 | 35 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | 34 |
| Nov 5, 2026 | 34 |
| Nov 4, 2026 | 39 |
| Nov 3, 2026 | 36 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | 41 |
| Nov 1, 2026 | 41 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 41 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | 40 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | 34 |
| Oct 28, 2026 | 27 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | 32 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | 28 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | 32 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 30 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | 36 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | 40 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | 32 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | 42 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | 39 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 39 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | 30 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 36 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | 38 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | 37 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 46 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 32 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | 39 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 35 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | 28 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | 33 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | 37 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 37 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 36 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 35 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 30 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | 30 |
| Sep 27, 2026 | 35 |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 39 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 36 |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 34 |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 45 |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 34 |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 35 |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 40 |
How many players finish Hero Tale?
39% of Steam players have unlocked «Gifted one», the achievement for finishing the main story.
Share of everyone who owns the game on Steam, including those who barely played it. Updated weekly.
Screenshots and trailer
Hero Tale system requirements
Minimum: DX10, 2 GB RAM, 0.7 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Hero Tale?
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- OS
- Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10 and Windows 11
- Processor
- x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
- Graphics
- DX10, DX11, DX12 capable
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 700 MB available space
Recommended
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Does Hero Tale have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Hero Tale run on Steam Deck?
Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Achievements
- 34
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing, In-app purchases
- Languages
- Text only: English, Polish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Spanish - Latin America, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Romanian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Hungarian.
Does Hero Tale use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 25, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
Tags
- Dungeon Crawler
- Auto Battler
- RPG
- Loot
- Casual
- Cozy
- Idler
- Indie
- 2D
- Cartoony
- Colorful
- Dark Fantasy
- Magic
- Medieval
- Fantasy
- Emotional
Recent updates
- Feb 6, 2025 · 1.4.12 Release notes
- Feb 3, 2025 · 1.4.10 Release notes
- Aug 26, 2024 · 1.3.4 Release notes
- Jul 12, 2024 · 1.2.6 Release notes
- May 13, 2024 · 1.1.8 Release notes
3 DLC available.