The Hero's Legacy
Releasing this weekNov 9, 2026
Bullet-hell bosses, deep loot and huge builds, solo or in co-op.
Details
- Developer
- CraftingBenchGames
- Publisher
- CraftingBenchGames
- Releases
- Nov 9, 2026
- Platform
- PC
Multiplayer
- Online co-op
- Yes
- Split screen co-op
- Yes
- LAN co-op
- Yes
- Crossplay
- Not listed
- Remote Play Together
- Yes
About this game
Bullet-hell bosses, deep loot and huge builds, solo or in co-op.
The Hero's Legacy is a pixel ARPG that mixes the bullet-hell co-op of Realm of the Mad God with the loot and builds of Path of Exile and Diablo. Play solo, host your friends online, or play with up to 4 players on one couch in local split-screen co-op. Chase uniques and 6-link gear, and build your hero on a huge passive tree. Heroes have permadeath.
Play your way
- Fully offline solo: no internet needed.
- Host a world for your friends through Steam, or on your local network.
- Join public worlds, or run your own dedicated server for bigger groups.
- Up to 4 players on one couch, shared or split screen, on top of any of them.
Loot worth dying for
- Loot drops on the ground with labels and beams. A loot filter with presets, colours and sounds hides the junk.
- Rare gear with tiered affixes, uniques, and graded endgame drops: Kindled, Blazing and Radiant.
- Gear sets with build-changing bonuses, from levelling to the endgame.
- Up to 6 linked sockets: slot skill runes and the sigils that change how they work.
- Crafting orbs to reroll, add, remove and lock affixes, and the Twinning Glass: a jackpot orb that makes an exact copy of your best item. Know when to stop.
- Armour, Evasion or Energy Shield: every build picks its defence.
Build anything

- 12 classes at launch. Start with 4, unlock the rest through your heroes' deeds.
- A huge passive tree with keystones that change how you play, like Spark Reflex: your crits cast the skills socketed in the tree. Built for theorycrafters.
- Lodestones: stones you set into the tree for extra stats. Craft them with orbs, or find a Relic that changes the nodes around it.
- Skill runes for every style: ring a temple bell, spin through a pack, raise a legion of bones, walk as a living pyre.
Dodge it together
- Every boss has its own bullet-hell patterns: rings, spirals, aimed volleys and safe gaps you have to find.
- Dragons and huge world bosses roam the high-level lands. Everyone who fights them gets their own loot.
- Heavy hits are telegraphed, and the death screen tells you what killed you.
Permadeath
- Every hero is hardcore. A fallen hero loses what they carried.
- The town cairn remembers every hero: who they were, what killed them and what they wore.
- Your family's story progress, Family Bank, gold and skills are never lost.
- Each fall grows your class Legacy, and the next hero of that class starts stronger.
The endgame
- Ember Rifts that keep getting harder, with their own bosses and Steam leaderboards for every class.
- A pinnacle fight waiting at the very top.
Between the fights
- A main story and side deeds.
- Woodcutting, mining, fishing, cooking, crafting, herblore and farming: levelled by your family, never lost on death.
- Build your own home, grow crops, cook meals, keep animals and explore dungeons.
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