Keep the Heroes Out

Keep the Heroes Out

Brueh Games · 2025 · Board Game, Card Game, Tabletop, Turn-Based Strategy, Strategy

PC
Mixed60% · 35
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$19.99
lowest tracked $16.99
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About Keep the Heroes Out


Keep the Heroes Out! is an asymmetric, cooperative dungeon defense game for 1-4 players where you play as the monsters protecting their hard-earned treasures against invading hordes of “heroes” trying to steal it. Monsters may die, which is tragic, but you can always bring them back to the dungeon! So you are never eliminated from the game, however, treasure gone, is gone forever.Each player chooses one of the monsters to play. All monsters have their own special abilities, a different amount of creatures and their unique starting deck of cards. The game supports local and online co-op!In your turn, use your cards one at a time to perform actions. The order of the icons on a card is not mandatory, and you may split actions between multiple monsters you have in play. At the end of your turn, refill your hand back to five cards.As the game progresses, you will be able to craft loot cards and improve your deck.Players take turns controlling their monsters on the dungeon. Each monster has a different role to play, some are crowd-control, others can be defensive or supporters, figuring out these combinations and solving an evolving puzzle together can be a lot of fun.After a player finishes their turn, heroes will invade our dungeon and attack us! Monsters may die, which is tragic, but you can always bring them back to the dungeon! So you are never eliminated from the game, however, a treasure stolen, is gone forever.If at any point of the game we lose our vault's hoard, the game ends in defeat, but if we manage to protect our treasures for long enough, we all win.Each of the levels has a different dungeon layout along with special rules & cards to spice things up! From introductory scenarios where Olga the witch needs frogs to make potions, to more wild ones like the battle of the bands.

What Steam players say

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

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Players praise the game's visual appeal and its faithful adaptation of the board game experience, but criticize the steep price point relative to buggy implementation and poor UI design that hampers playability. The difficulty scaling is heavily criticized for being either trivially easy or absurdly punishing with little middle ground, compounded by unclear mechanics and inadequate in-game instruction that leaves players frustrated and unable to progress.

Not recommended Dec 28, 2025
Nice game, but far too expensive for such a buggy implementation. My main reason for not recommending this game is the combination of difficulty levels and RNG. Family — you basically can’t lose Challenging — extremely hard, but at least somewhat playable Hardcore — imagine flipping a coin and needing it to land heads 16,000,000 times in a row. That’s the same experience If you want a comfortable, visually pleasant game, play on Family difficulty and enjoy it If you want to git gud and actually test your skills, you’ll just waste your time for nothing
6 found this helpful
Not recommended Feb 11, 2026
The board game is fun, but the digital version has such poor UI design and visual clarity that it becomes unplayable.
5 found this helpful
Not recommended Dec 18, 2025
Gameplay mechanics and level instructions are not clear at all. I beat my head against the wall through 7 game levels and got stopped dead on the 8th level on the easiest difficulty setting. There are no strategy guides on steam, or anywhere else for that matter, on how to beat the levels or what each levels special rules actually mean. If you're a masochist and the game is 90% off go for it, otherwise save yourself the frustration and buy another game.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 17, 2025
I own the board game and all the expansions, this is it, just digital. Perfect! Has some tweaking to do.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 28, 2026
very cute game
1 found this helpful
Recommended May 14, 2026
The controls are a little wonky but once you get them figured out, it's just like the board game and it's plenty of fun!

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