The Heroes Around Me

The Heroes Around Me

Released Jun 2024

The Heroes Around Me tells a story of a family of 3: the hard-working and quiet father – Nan, his daughter Lili, and their pet dog Sesame. Players will experience the harshness and warmth in the simpler time of the 1990s, where lots of stories are untold.

94% positive · 772 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Steam $6.99
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Evaluation

The Heroes Around Me is a narrative pixel-art RPG set in 1990s southern China, developed and published by OKJOY. It launched on Steam on June 14, 2024, as a complete, self-contained story-driven experience. The developer described it at launch as a finished game with a runtime of approximately 4–7 hours. Post-launch activity has been limited to quality-of-life improvements and localization additions: a patch shortly after launch adjusted UI and controller settings, bug fixes were issued through September 2024, and English (September 2024), French (January 2025), and Portuguese (April 2025) language support were added — all maintenance and accessibility work rather than new story content. The only DLC ever listed is the soundtrack, which released alongside the game on June 14, 2024. No additional story content, expansions, or sequels have been announced. The most recent notable news (January 2026) announced a licensed mobile port of the existing game on Chinese mobile platforms — this is a port of the finished product, not new content for the Steam version. The developer has not signaled any plans for additional content. The game launched as a complete narrative package and has remained so. Someone waiting for all content to be available could have played the complete experience from day one of release.
Evidence
Pre-launch letter from the developer confirms the game as a complete, finished product launching June 14, 2024, with a playtime of approximately 4–7 hours. No post-launch content roadmap is mentioned.
news post · May 31, 2024 source development ending
high
Official launch announcement for the game on Steam. No mention of future content updates or DLC beyond the simultaneously released soundtrack.
news post · Jun 14, 2024 source content shipped
medium

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Released
Jun 2024

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
OKJOY
Achievements
9
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

Time reappears, childhood memories revive

The background of the story is that the author lived in a small town in southern China in the 1990s. In the gradually well-off era, all kinds of old objects and old shops were perfectly presented in a picture of pixel style. It elaborately depicts the environment of China in the 1990s; every picture was carefully prepared that players can’t help immersing in it.

Concise dialogue, rich foreshadowing

In the concise dialogue with people around you, you can skillfully get a lot of foreshadowing hidden in words; the real emotions come out slowly, and more stories are hidden in every detail of the game. When you tap slowly and relish carefully, you will gradually find that we are telling a warm story the meaning of Hero.

Interactive operation, childhood games

In the process of plot exploration, rich interactive games are interspersed, recreating the playing scenes in the old-fashioned game machines in childhood, recording those once beautiful game times and returning to the 1990s.

Last evaluated Jun 22, 2026
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