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Fallen Hero: Retribution

Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac • 2023

Should you play it?

So you're a villain now? Let's see if you survive the experience.

What works

  • Deep, emotionally complex storytelling
  • High replayability with meaningful choices
  • Rich character development and relationships
  • Immersive and well-written narrative
  • Significant player autonomy in shaping protagonist

Things to keep in mind

  • Long wait times between installments
  • Lack of save/load flexibility noted
  • Cliffhanger ending may frustrate some
  • Some players find repeated reading tedious
  • No physical or sensory gameplay elements

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Community College Hero: Trial by Fire

  • Choice of Robots

  • Fantasy Grounds VTT

  • Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One

  • Choice of the Deathless

  • Open Sorcery

Less social

Games that feels like Fallen Hero: Retribution but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Roadwarden

  • Your Chronicle

  • Heaven Will Be Mine

  • Heart Fragment

  • non-binary

  • Magical Diary: Horse Hall

Less fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like Fallen Hero: Retribution but with less of a community feel

  • Long Knives

  • Magic Research 2

  • SIMULACRA: Pipe Dreams

  • NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD

  • Tin Star

  • Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road

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Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Fallen Hero: Retribution: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Status, Story.

Last update: 03/08/2026