Heads Will Roll: Downfall

Heads Will Roll: Downfall

1917 Studios · October 20, 2022 · Turn-Based Combat, Roguelike, Historical, RPG, Replay Value

Heads Will Roll: Downfall is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

PC
Mixed68% · 418
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Heads Will Roll: Downfall price

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About Heads Will Roll: Downfall

Heads Will Roll: Downfall is a combination of a tactical role-playing game and visual novel, in which you will assume the role of a medieval soldier.

Heads Will Roll: Downfall — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Heads Will Roll: Downfall suffers from poor explanation of its mechanics, requiring players to learn through trial and error and keep external notes, while also featuring questionable historical accuracy and progression systems that can lock players out of content if they invest in the wrong stats. Players find the gameplay tedious with resource management issues like traders lacking necessary items and constant fatigue, though some appreciate the visual novel depth and suggest it might appeal to specific tastes or be worth revisiting in the right mood.

Not recommended Jul 1, 2026
From a historical accuracy point of view this game stands next to Braveheart, which is famous for portraying Scots in garments that were off by few centuries and depicting a Battle of Stirling Bridge without a bridge. When it comes to gameplay it nowhere better - stats and modifiers are badly explained (i.e. you could expect that when one armour has penalty equal "2" and another has penalty equal "-1" you would have "1" penalty in total but you get "3"); you have to learn game mechanics by trial and error (which is especially annoying when it comes to fighting), and to keep notes about many things outside of the game (i.e. recipes, as switching between buying and crafting wastes time and re-rolls the store each time). The story itself could be interesting and some mechanics (i.e. virtue) are really interesting but the overall experience with this game you can sum up as a waste of time.
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Not recommended Aug 22, 2025
"Heads Will Roll: Downfall" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called ""Heads Will Roll: Reforged"". "Heads Will Roll: Reforged" is more basic Russian shovelware, this time a browser/Flash tier RPG with a HUGE number of fake/paid reviews from the Russian review farm uncovered by Sentinels of the Store. Which means, of course, that Valve will eventually ban the game (and this advert for it) when they finally get around to enforcing their policy on review manipulation. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not "Heads Will Roll: Reforged", it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Heads Will Roll: Downfall" too. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out a whopping $25 USD on buying "Head…
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Not recommended Mar 6, 2026
this game is so ass like damn it takes to long and for some reason my guy is always to tiered to train and the trader never has any swords so i cant fight to do quest i have no money to buy stuff or to gamble
Recommended Nov 25, 2025
ddd
Not recommended Sep 10, 2025
I get literally(!) locked out of even leaving the camp, because I supposedly trained the wrong stats. Don't wanna know where this will lead.
Not recommended Sep 4, 2025
Can't say I liked it. This is a very interactive visual novel game, and I can see the depth this offers, but this just isn't my type of game. Thank you for offering this free version, before I buy in the original game blindly. I'll keep this one installed and the original game on my wishlist for now, though. I will give it another chance later on, when I am in the right mood.

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