Craft Hero - Prologue

Released Mar 2022

Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero

94% positive · 157 reviews

Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Steam Free

Evaluation

Craft Hero: Prologue is a free standalone prologue to the full game Craft Hero. It launched on March 7, 2022 and received a handful of patches and bug fixes in the weeks following release, with the last developer update posted on May 18, 2022. Since then — over four years ago — there have been no further developer communications of any kind. The prologue was explicitly designed as a demo/preview vehicle for the full game (Craft Hero, Steam App 1882040), with multiple posts encouraging players to wishlist the main title. There is no DLC, no roadmap, no announced future content, and no sustained post-launch update pattern beyond early maintenance patches. The game functions as a self-contained free prologue that shipped complete by design. Developer activity ceased after May 18, 2022, consistent with the prologue having served its purpose as a promotional sampler for the full game.

Evidence

Last developer update — a feature patch adding UI shortcuts and adjusting game balance. No further posts after this date.

news post · May 18, 2022 source development ending

high

Developer notes that players who own the full Early Access version cannot play the prologue, reinforcing that this is a separate, limited promotional demo for the main game.

news post · Apr 14, 2022 source ambiguous

medium

Media

Details

Developer

PandaCat 熊喵独立游戏

Publisher

OKJOY

Achievements

—

Platform

Windows

Controller

partial support

Steam Deck

Not rated

Players

Single-player

Crafting Sandbox Base Building Pixel Graphics Top-Down Dungeon Crawler Survival Building Free to Play Strategy 2D Indie Adventure Combat Turn-Based Combat

About this game

Become the last hope of humanity, rally the villager to the defense of the Dark Lords!

Gather resources, design, build, and upgrade the base and produce supplies; research weapons, deploy traps and towers, recruit mercenaries and set out to the dynamic generated dungeons, and defeat the Dark Lords one by one!

Gather in the wild, refine metals, plant trees, breed animals to feed your gree-at villagers
Research to out-tech the Dark Lords. Unlock weapons, magics, electricity and even automated production
Plan your defense cunningly with walls, traps and towers, and lure your preys into it.
Recruit mercenaries and explore the dynamic dungeon, ransack the wilderness to get scores and achievements, for the sole purpose of pride.
Switch between Archer, Warrior and Mage, create your build with dual weapons, talent and mercenaries.

Last evaluated Jun 22, 2026