# Hero Boy

Summer DB entity ID: e43faa90\-e412\-4373\-9316\-ad9ab9ac9ce9

Steam App ID: 512370

Hero Boy is a 2D beat\-em\-up/horror game set inside the notebook of Max, an 8 year old boy chronicling a zombie outbreak\. Max, a daydreamer who struggles with bullies in school and has difficulty making friends, is thrust into the middle of the outbreak\. As Max witnesses the world crumbling around him, his usually fun doodles become more twisted\. You must fight through hordes of enemies\.\.\.imaginary and real\.\.\.in order to survive\.    Hero Boy is a beat\-em\-up in the vein of Golden Axe and Double Dragon\. Using combos will let you do moves that deal more damage along with other effects like increased knockback and stuns\. As you defeat more enemies, your charge meter will fill up\. Once it's filled, you'll be able to use your special move\. You unlock new special moves as the game progresses that grant different benefits\. The game has a wide variety of enemies to fight who will make use of a combination of melee, ranged, or area of effect attacks\. You'll be fighting these enemies in different combinations as you progress\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Crowned Daemon Studios

- Publisher: Crowned Daemon Studios

- Release date: Oct 31, 2016

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Indie

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Partial Controller Support, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/512370/ss\_7e9a3f9abe4f675c11f6ab751c3023b6df64723e\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1477940616, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/512370/ss\_e7ca0a2072580f5d4102c8e1ed0a425cc1ea1557\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1477940616, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/512370/ss\_bdf546cb0a8c8e4ee665c3e5508059ffff49563a\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1477940616, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/512370/ss\_8e164befed671d17bb15ec396b127adee15c0d35\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1477940616, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/512370/ss\_deb8fb83e4401e6e5f10466c0e8ae6913d6145f0\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1477940616

- Price: 499 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 4

- Steam positive reviews: 4

- Steam negative reviews: 0

- Steam positive percentage: 100%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/e43faa90-e412-4373-9316-ad9ab9ac9ce9/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/e43faa90-e412-4373-9316-ad9ab9ac9ce9/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T13:54:45\.244352\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T13:54:47\.453855\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T13:54:47\.200072\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/512370/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/e43faa90-e412-4373-9316-ad9ab9ac9ce9)