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Choose a class and battle hellish hordes in a pixel-art ARPG, shaping skills and gear through loot, crafting, and trade.
Released 29 Jan 2014
Reshape Active Skills
Craft and Modify Gear
Trade Loot With Players
Hero Siege is a fast paced Pixel Art ARPG featuring an expansive roster of unique classes, deep build experimentation, and a player driven economy.
Developed by Panic Art Studios Ltd · Published by Panic Art Studios Ltd
In Tarethiel, a world under siege by the Forces of Hell, you take the role of a hero fighting undead hordes, demons, and other monsters. The game is a top-down, pixel-art action RPG playable solo or with others.
Choose from a roster of classes with distinct skills, then develop your character through skill trees and sub-skills that can change how active abilities work. Combat centers on clearing groups of enemies and progressing through the campaign and its difficulty levels.
Find equipment, then craft and modify it to support your build; socketed gear can also be used to create runewords. Online players can list and buy items through the market, while seasonal content adds new systems and challenges, including Wormholes with seasonal cosmetic rewards.
In this selected sample, favorable reviews often describe the combat and loot loop as engaging: clearing enemies, finding upgrades, and growing stronger gives them reasons to keep playing. Players also praise the variety of classes and builds, which can make new characters feel different, and some enjoy sharing the grind with friends. These positive impressions appear alongside substantial criticism in other reviews.
Step into Tarethiel, a world under siege by the Forces of Hell.
Face Demon Lords, ancient monstrosities and fallen angels as you hack and slash your path through endless hordes of the undead. Hero Siege is a fast paced Pixel Art ARPG featuring an expansive roster of unique classes, deep build experimentation, and a player driven economy.
Craft your hero through two main skill trees and individual sub-skill trees that reshape how every active ability works. Combined with a massive item pool and powerful crafting options, the game offers limitless build possibilities; from blood hungry melee bruisers and bow wielding archers to gun slinging demon slayers, sentry engineers, summoners, spell casting mages and everything in between.
Hero Siege evolves in seasonal cycles every four months, delivering fresh content, new systems, items, events, and quality of life improvements. As a small, experienced team, we work closely with our community to improve the game based directly on valuable player feedback.
23 Playable Character classes Every class offers its own unique play style and skill set. Sub-skills and item based modifiers allow you to push your build in unique and creative directions.
1000+ Unique Items Loot ranges from randomized magic items all the way to handcrafted Satanic, Set, Heroic, Angelic and Unholy items. Runewords can be created using white bases with sockets. Items can be buffed, crafted and modified in various ways through the crafting system.
Tarethiel Market Travel to Village of Mos'Arathim to List your items for sale or buy gear from other players in real time. Trading is a core part of character progression and build crafting.
Adventure Journal A fully integrated in game encyclopedia containing mechanics, unique items, runewords, prospecting recipes, crafting recipes and augments.
Endless Replayablity Designed for seasonal play. Each season adds new content such as: items, bosses, gimmicks and surprises from our development team.
Wormholes Push your character as high as possible and earn seasonal cosmetic rewards such as skins, wings, portraits and more.
BIG NO-NO for Pay to Win We never sell game play advantages. Fair competition is a core value for us.
| Platforms | Windows, Linux |
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| Steam Deck | Playable |
| Achievements | 112 |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | Hero Siege supports single-player and multiplayer. Store features list Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Remote Play Together, and Single-player. Multiple reviews state online co-op supports up to 4 players total and local co-op supports 2 players. The game also has trading, a real-time player market, guild-related features, seasonal competition, and rankings. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No multiplayer mod support is described in the provided information. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 7 listed on Steam |
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