Heads Will Roll: Downfall

Wait68%

Mixed · 418 player reviews · Low confidence

It depends on what you're after.

Steam Deck Playable
  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

1917 Studios · Turn-Based Combat · Oct 20, 2022

Player review score
68%
Mixed
Price
Free
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
29
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
2
Full audio0 of 2
Subtitles2 of 2

Should I buy Heads Will Roll: Downfall?

Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 42 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Combat: 34 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Story: 33 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Difficulty: 37 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 418 player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 183 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
50% of themes are praise38% are divided12% are complaints
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
42 of 183 sampled reviews raised it
Both have same combat mechanics but to me HWR:D was much more enjoyable.
Combat
Players who bring up Combat mostly praise it.
34 of 183 sampled reviews raised it
Having said that, this VN has 1 of the toughest combat systems I've come up against in a while in any RPG game.
Story
Players who bring up Story mostly praise it.
33 of 183 sampled reviews raised it
The good/pros: it's a fairly interesting if not wholly innovative story, your character is a young son of a small merchant near London, gets into a fight where the sheriff's son lies dead, so he flees from the hanging and joins an army going north to fight the Scots and their allied French.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
5 of 183 sampled reviews raised it
The flash game graphics are charming and there is apparently more variation in equipment and actions that your character can take.

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Gameplay42 reviews
Combat34 reviews
Story33 reviews
Graphics5 reviews
Divided opinion
Characters
86% still recommend
Interface
100% still recommend
Crashes
33% still recommend
Players complain
Difficulty
62% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Single-player

Controller

Steam lists no controller support.

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Steam Achievements

Platforms

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

Valve device support

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable

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