Heroes of the Storm

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 1580 Ratings

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  1. blizzfails
    Jun 21, 2023
    0
    Why bother spending any time or money, no one plays this. While waiting 45mins+ in que for a "quickmatch" I made an entire account just to write this and tell you why blizzard sucks. It sucks. Matchmaking is trash and you will spend more time waiting in line than actually playing the game.
  2. lop
    May 20, 2023
    0
    Used to have a lot of hype around this game when it first came out. Years gone by, not a single significant change to the game. Game is really easy and very little room for competitiveness. Also the devs/blizz probably gave up on this game.
  3. Khaosom
    Mar 22, 2023
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's extremely rare I'll rate a game this low but as a Moba player I feel a true rating and review for this is needed. It's a League of Legends/Dota knock off with all Blizzard heroes. Which wouldn't be bad except it's basically babies first Moba. No strategy for building required, no counter building, no items for purchase and no leveling abilities (talents unlock at certain levels that add effects to skills). Then to top it off you get 1 free character, and maybe a second from a loot chest after the tutorial, meaning you can only play a small portion of the roles. There's no free weekly/monthly rotation of characters, there's no free character from each class like other Moba games. If you want an easy game where you have 0 thinking and pay to get everything this is for you.… Expand
  4. Darius_84
    Jan 15, 2023
    0
    There are no words to describe how bad this garbage is. Spare yourself the pain and do something else, let this trash die the way it's supposed to
  5. frostnv
    Jul 18, 2022
    0
    Despite the fact that it is original with well-designed characters and maps, matchmaking and the social system with reports is as terrible as possible. Of the many multiplayer games played, this is the worst game because of its huge lack of sociality. The developers never wanted people to play it
  6. jepega
    Jun 9, 2022
    2
    2 random kids make dota in map redactor, big company make this. this is not okay. u know? try urself in another professions pls stop this u cant make games, okay maybe mobile, but its maxixum for u like company.
  7. Mocasines
    Jun 6, 2022
    0
    Yet another abandoned game by Blizzard, no major updates for 4+ years, a very toxic community, and the worst league system I've ever seen.
  8. kutayc
    Mar 14, 2022
    0
    Blizzard could take instalockers, afk players, and people picking multiple roles more seriously since matchmaking is the core handicap in this game.
    My account is banned for chat violation and you know what I've been through if you played this game. Yes I got really mad sometimes because of the toxic profile you get matched with.
    If you can put up with cancer players go for it and    Blizzard could take instalockers, afk players, and people picking multiple roles more seriously since matchmaking is the core handicap in this game.
    My account is banned for chat violation and you know what I've been through if you played this game. Yes I got really mad sometimes because of the toxic profile you get matched with.

    If you can put up with cancer players go for it and download. Terrible matchmaking and drafting mechanism only awards bad players and pushes dedicated good gamers out of this space.

    I have wasted my years to play with troll players that pick heroes that can be easily countered or the same roles already picked by the other teammates. Matchmaking system is just terrible. No cooperation, no communicaion, no help, players that don't know what they do etc. This game has a lot to go though but its already dead anyways.    … Expand
  9. Nepen1he
    Mar 10, 2022
    0
    games out of politics, juegos fuera de la politica, jogos fora da política
  10. metacriticuser8
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    The ban system killed this game and the community. It harmed thousands, if not millions of players psychologically. They didn't implement anything that makes it fair and doesn't actually favor the reporter. There is no relief for very old bans, you will get the next one staggered. Automatically by reporters who can report as much as they want. In a game, which also has a mute/ignoreThe ban system killed this game and the community. It harmed thousands, if not millions of players psychologically. They didn't implement anything that makes it fair and doesn't actually favor the reporter. There is no relief for very old bans, you will get the next one staggered. Automatically by reporters who can report as much as they want. In a game, which also has a mute/ignore button! This game suffers from toxic reporters who got and get support and high invested players who got and get banned without any need for a reason. The remaining playerbase is has the perfect comparison to hipocrits in the new political situation. E.g. arguing for climate change and co2 reduction but also flying twice per year into holidays.… Expand
  11. Arsemex
    Feb 19, 2022
    0
    This game fails in every aspect. Terrible balance, terrible matchmaking, terrible UI, and they don't even let you surrender.
  12. Flexi1007
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    If you are not spending real money they will nerf you. Your damage will register but it will not effect other players as much. They will also team you up with other nerfed players. This will improve the morale of money spending players and cause them to spend more money. Don't be a victim to their money sucking agenda.
  13. kruci
    Nov 12, 2021
    4
    Słaba nikomu niepotrzebna nudna gra. Bez pomysłu na siebie i polotu, totalnie generyczna i szybko zapomniana
  14. iPadla
    Oct 27, 2021
    0
    No teamskill balance in quick matches here.
    95% of games are either super-easy walk or are impossible to win.

    Feels like they enforce 50% winrate and not with quality matching but with "wow, u are above 50% and u need to lose immediately" rule.
  15. BundleGem
    Sep 27, 2021
    0
    **** piece of **** without matchmaking without any comeback mechanics.
    Ok. We dont have comeback mechanics why they don't added simple button like surrender i dont understand.
  16. Z0MN1A
    Aug 4, 2021
    0
    I have been playing Blizzard's game Heroes of the Storm since the day of the game's Alpha launch. This was around 4/2015. Around 5/2021, I was permanently banned and an account valued at well over $1000 is no longer accessible to me.

    I have been reported numerous times for abusive chat. And this is completely understandable as I have been silenced on multiple occasions for it.    I have been playing Blizzard's game Heroes of the Storm since the day of the game's Alpha launch. This was around 4/2015. Around 5/2021, I was permanently banned and an account valued at well over $1000 is no longer accessible to me.

    I have been reported numerous times for abusive chat. And this is completely understandable as I have been silenced on multiple occasions for it. Understandably. I have a bit of an issue with expressing my irritability verbally and pressuring people to play correctly.

    In many cases, however, it was not a matter of straight up crude vulgarity. Although early in the game's life it certainly was, over the years I matured a bit and stuck to more specific claims of other player's performance. Addressing such issues play by play, as many neurotic players do.

    - My biggest argument is that if Blizzard's matchmaking service was effective, then there would be less frustration displayed by players of their teammates in games. Blizzard, as do all other competitive games developers, provide players with a mute/block button. It is the thin skinned player's responsibility to use such features.

    - My secondary argument is that if blizzard cannot create a perfect match making system, then Blizzard cannot expect perfect player conduct. To expect either is irrational.

    - My third argument is that players should not be permanently banned for conduct. Perhaps silenced for a year, perhaps temporarily banned for a year after so many cases. But mental issues are a thing and they are widely possessed in many forms by gamers. Some are offensive, and some are fragile. It is no place of a developer of any sort of software to try and dictate the behaviors of it's users using outright banning of an account as the consequence of not upholding said predefined behaviors.

    - My final argument has to do with a game's lifespan. If a player displays toxic behavior, be it outright vulgarity or simply the revealing to other players of their individual faults, it is likely that behavior is not going to suddenly disappear. It likely may become toned down over time, especially after numerous and increasing chat restriction penalties, but it is unlikely that it will fully disappear. So the longer the game is up, the chance of the company eventually banning the player increases drematically year by year.

    Blizzard and other game's developers should be legally restricted to a year-by-year rule where you can impose a penalty for the remainder of an annual cycle that restricts them (up to completely) from a game due to conduct, but never indefinitely - at the very least without a complete and total refund of that player's money. And offenses cannot be gray areas. Threats of violence, for example, would be a zero-tolerance example of how a player could be outright banned and refunded their purchases. But disrespect should never be considered a bannable offense, especially considering that in society disrespect is sometimes endearing and a, perhaps poor, desire to help improve the overall player-base's ability to perform, or weed out those who refuse to improve. Thereby improving the efficacy of the matchmaking system and in turn reducing the degree of toxic behaviors in individual matches.

    Lastly, this genre of game, specifically. One that originated as a mod on another of Blizzard's games, Warcraft III, is riddled with toxicity. It always has been. And it is toxic players of this genre that ultimately lead to the genre becoming independent of the mod it originated on.

    Blizzard has in recent years become an absolutely terrible company and I caution anyone even talking about them as it simply gives them more publicity. The company is on it's way out for their abhorrent business practices and general disrespect of their player base and those of us who have been here since the very beginning.

    By all means make your own decisions, but take it from someone who has been playing blizzard games since the beginning, they have turned evil very quickly.    … Expand
  17. Fehnraal
    Jul 26, 2021
    3
    TL;DR - The game is fun, but unlocking heroes either requires an irrationally large chunk of time, or a few bucks. Not P2W, but definitely Pay-2-Progress.

    Heroes of the Storm is a MOBA by Blizzard/Activision that blends together properties of Blizzard's games such as WoW, Overwatch, Diablo, etc. into one universe and even adds a few new characters to the pool. The gameplay (aside    TL;DR - The game is fun, but unlocking heroes either requires an irrationally large chunk of time, or a few bucks. Not P2W, but definitely Pay-2-Progress.

    Heroes of the Storm is a MOBA by Blizzard/Activision that blends together properties of Blizzard's games such as WoW, Overwatch, Diablo, etc. into one universe and even adds a few new characters to the pool.

    The gameplay (aside from the novelty of Blizzard characters in a MOBA) is fairly fun. There are some balancing issues for sure, but it is essentially a watered down MOBA that's good fun for casual and serious players alike.

    The issues I have with this game, however, are with 2 major things that personally break a game.

    Poor matchmaking - Don't expect to get paired up with players equal to your skill level. In my first match, I was paired against players hundreds of levels higher than me. You will either get absolutely stomped, or carried by your team. If you're the type that gets really annoyed when you feel like you can't contribute, play a ton of AI matches first.

    Now for the reason this is a 3/10 for me. The gold and $RL system. Unlocking heroes in this game will cost anywhere from 2,000 - 10,000 in-game 'gold'. Gold is obtained by playing matches and leveling up heroes. I was getting an average of about 30-50 gold per match and after days of playing match after match, I finally reached 1,000 gold. After all of this, I am 10% of the way to purchasing Lucio (or any other 10k hero).

    Lets give a very generous estimate of 50 gold per match. To reach 10,000 gold you would need to play in 200 matches. Each match is about 20 minutes long on average.

    You would need to log 66 hours of actual in-game playtime to reach 10,000 gold. Even spread across the week, that's more than a full-time job. I would argue that maybe even 10% of that number is too high... But I'll let you decide that on your own.

    But don't worry, you can pay a few bucks and buy any hero you want and don't have to worry about the irrational grind. This is why I've rated this game a 3/10. We cannot keep allowing giant companies like Activision/Blizzard to essentially bar all progression if it doesn't give them a few bucks. I've seen this get worse and worse as time goes by and I've become less forgiving about it.    … Expand
  18. LiniVitro
    Jul 16, 2021
    1
    I registered to write this review. This game is a piece of dried s**t. Blizzard is a greedy, mercantile company. You are given one of three heroes and forced to farm 7-10 thousand gold. But this is the path for only 2 heroes. I tried to play as heroes in rotation. They are extremely weak against those in matchmaking. They have a small radius of attack and use of skills, poorI registered to write this review. This game is a piece of dried s**t. Blizzard is a greedy, mercantile company. You are given one of three heroes and forced to farm 7-10 thousand gold. But this is the path for only 2 heroes. I tried to play as heroes in rotation. They are extremely weak against those in matchmaking. They have a small radius of attack and use of skills, poor escape.Absolutely everything in this game for a beginner comes down to what you need to endure and watch. No competitive interest whatsoever. It looks like Blizzard decided to kill this game 1/10
    1 point for concept    … Expand
  19. gammablink
    Jun 25, 2021
    0
    A garbage game by a garbage developer. Spend 1 dime and they will ban you for trying to tell the horifically incompitent teammates to just pay attention
  20. Ordnik
    Jun 21, 2021
    0
    Hero balance is absolutely terrible, sometimes they oneshot you sometimes they heal %100 in seconds, sometimes they are god-like. Matchmaking is unfair. Buying heroes is like buying a house in real life, Blizzard is money hungry as always. Everything about this game is terrible, unfair. Do not waste your time. Zero fun.
  21. SeniorJoker
    May 14, 2021
    0
    I've been playing game since alpha. It's almost 6 years. Banned this year for chat. Couldn't stand moronic players broken MM provides. And CAN'T IGNORE THEM with leaving game. They report you or system just gives you penalty for leaving. And you get EVEN WORSE PEOPLE with who you must win to get rid of penalty. Also, I don't believe that have same MMR with such people that even don't knowI've been playing game since alpha. It's almost 6 years. Banned this year for chat. Couldn't stand moronic players broken MM provides. And CAN'T IGNORE THEM with leaving game. They report you or system just gives you penalty for leaving. And you get EVEN WORSE PEOPLE with who you must win to get rid of penalty. Also, I don't believe that have same MMR with such people that even don't know damn basics of game. Donated. Had many things unlocked on account. Ofc, no refund. Blizzard cares nowadays only about money. I played student league. Really liked this game. Now it is a trash can with SJV bio-waste, which even the indefinite article in your message offends (so they can use the punishment system in their favor, even if they just don't like you). Do a favor for humanity, don't play blizzard games. Or they will continue to keep the level of their games at the bottom for the sake of the SJV scam. All you find just farming in a beautiful wrapper. They don't even respect their own employees and pay them a bonus with play time in Warcraft while Bobby Kotick gets millions in bonuses. Lmao.… Expand
  22. PlumperLover
    May 7, 2021
    0
    Нуууу это высер близов, больше нечего добавить.
  23. R3XXagan
    Apr 23, 2021
    0
    This game is dead. Blizzard does nothing to improve it's gameplay, just trying to dig a bit more gold out of it. New heroes (paid) one stronger than another, makes the game unbalanced as any other game is. Example is pretty simple: they release a new hero, which is rly OP so that ppl buy it and use it, while Illidan, which was in game since it's launch, is now a piece of trash, and nooneThis game is dead. Blizzard does nothing to improve it's gameplay, just trying to dig a bit more gold out of it. New heroes (paid) one stronger than another, makes the game unbalanced as any other game is. Example is pretty simple: they release a new hero, which is rly OP so that ppl buy it and use it, while Illidan, which was in game since it's launch, is now a piece of trash, and noone wasnts to rework it, making this hero unplayable. this game is not about the strategy, teamplay and good pick combination, it's a competition of who's the dumbest of our players to buy and own each and every new powerful hero, that guy will be leading. i've been playing it since beta, got myself trapped in it and couldn't leave it for another game bcuz i've learned each mechanic to play it, so i've seen enough in this game to tell you right now that this is an abandoned piece of trash, noone in Blizzard cares about it's own child and i'm pretty sure this won't change anytime soon. I finally deleted it… Expand
  24. BestNoob
    Nov 26, 2020
    1
    Simple, fun, great ... the best game in this genre ! No items just Hero power and Teamplay/Map mechanics ... and thats the problem 90% Braindead ppl. in this game ..

    and i mean BRAIN DEAD

    they have nothing in there... completly empty. (LIke the players of most Activision/Blizzard games) and no its not a question of the age !

    The rest is 5% Cheater and 5% Pro Player.
  25. clbull
    Nov 17, 2020
    0
    There are so many reasons to avoid this game like the plague.

    In late 2018 Blizzard scrapped the Heroes Global Championship (HGC) league and gutted out the game's development team without warning. They claim to have "set the game up for long term sustainability" but in reality screwed over its stakeholders. Playing Heroes in 2020 is a miserable experience. Most of the serious players    There are so many reasons to avoid this game like the plague.

    In late 2018 Blizzard scrapped the Heroes Global Championship (HGC) league and gutted out the game's development team without warning. They claim to have "set the game up for long term sustainability" but in reality screwed over its stakeholders.

    Playing Heroes in 2020 is a miserable experience. Most of the serious players left for better games. What remains are trolls, griefers and toxic players who will actively ruin your game experience.

    They will actively weaponise the game's automated report system against you. I was unfairly given a month long ban by Blizzard by people who maliciously reported me for calling out their bad play, all while they wished COVID, death and other horrible things upon me.    … Expand
  26. ClaySoldier
    Nov 8, 2020
    0
    Almost like Marvel VS Capcom, you can play with your favorite characters from the games made when Blizzard was worth a damn.
    Otherwise:
    - **** matchmaking - prepare to face constant loosing streaks at time, thanks to backwater rejects and dumb cucks - **** balance - Blizzard does not give a **** like Valve they only like to add hats now - Don't make my mistake and avoid this piece    Almost like Marvel VS Capcom, you can play with your favorite characters from the games made when Blizzard was worth a damn.
    Otherwise:

    - **** matchmaking - prepare to face constant loosing streaks at time, thanks to backwater rejects and dumb cucks
    - **** balance
    - Blizzard does not give a **** like Valve they only like to add hats now
    - Don't make my mistake and avoid this piece of **** do something better with your life    … Expand
  27. filipeandrei
    Nov 4, 2020
    3
    The best MOBA mechanics, in my opinion. Fun, simplistic, team-based action (as opposed to lol or dota, with equipments and players going super strong solo, leaving the team behind). The only - and biggest - problem is its in the hands of Blizzard.

    YEARS passed since launch, matchmaking suck as bad as when it launched, TERRIBLE matchmaking, both in characters on your team and versus, and    The best MOBA mechanics, in my opinion. Fun, simplistic, team-based action (as opposed to lol or dota, with equipments and players going super strong solo, leaving the team behind). The only - and biggest - problem is its in the hands of Blizzard.

    YEARS passed since launch, matchmaking suck as bad as when it launched, TERRIBLE matchmaking, both in characters on your team and versus, and players levels. The Blizzard matchmaking throughout their games is horrible: if you start winning too much, the game will pair you in a team of people who are losing too much, usually against a closed team, to force your defeat and keep you in the 50% V/D ratio. I kid you not, if i play in a closed team with my friends, we win 9,5/10 times, but in random, is a downright fustercluck of terrible players, trolls, racists, xenophobes, mysoginists etc.

    Speaking of which, i had one account BANNED from this game, a while back, for speaking against FASCISM and RACISM, and refusing to play with the said racist player. So much for the CEO "we want to be better" mambojambo after the Hong Kong negative repercussions.

    What saddens me most, is that this company was my hands-down favorite, game-wise. Now, i am disgusted to see or touch anything they do, even if for free.    … Expand
  28. Artanis_Mattias
    Sep 11, 2020
    0
    Эта игра не стоит вашего времени.
    Сломанный баланс и слишком казуальные механики введут вас в глубокое разочарование.
    Разработчики делают все возможное что бы уничтожить эту игру своими глупыми решениями которые никакого отношения к желанию игроков не имеют. Как следствие отток игроков и будете вы играть с одними и теми же игроками которые играют в основном на Ли-Мин, Кель-Тасе, Вариане    Эта игра не стоит вашего времени.
    Сломанный баланс и слишком казуальные механики введут вас в глубокое разочарование.
    Разработчики делают все возможное что бы уничтожить эту игру своими глупыми решениями которые никакого отношения к желанию игроков не имеют. Как следствие отток игроков и будете вы играть с одними и теми же игроками которые играют в основном на Ли-Мин, Кель-Тасе, Вариане или Нове. А теперь ещё и Диве и Газлоу, ведь их апнули, а значит играть против них стало совсем неинтересно, ведь они разносили и так всех 1 на 1, а теперь они разносят 1 в 3.
    Я устал от этой игры, я ливаю с каждого боя что не приносит мне удовольствия от процесса соревновательной игры. А его тут нет, ведь это пошаговая стратегия, где решает пик, а не умение играть.    … Expand
  29. ATOMIC076
    Sep 10, 2020
    0
    It would be fun if it werent for the fact blizzard has the worst.... absolute worst matchmaking of any game i've ever seen. Expect to lose 8-9 games in a row in absolute stomps. Just a trash company all around.
  30. YazMataz
    Aug 21, 2020
    2
    Basically - extremely poor user experience. The ladder is pretty bad. Too many heroes, too few bans. A number of heroes feel like they cheese the game. But you can't ban them all.
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#16 Best PC Game of 2015
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#12 Most Discussed PC Game of 2015
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#46 Most Shared PC Game of 2015

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86

Generally favorable reviews - based on 57 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 54 out of 57
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 57
  3. Negative: 0 out of 57
  1. Ten Ton Hammer
    Nov 1, 2015
    90
    Heroes of the Storm is an exceptional game that’s thrown the cat amongst the pigeons in this rigid genre.
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  2. Pelit (Finland)
    Sep 9, 2015
    90
    In Heroes of the Storm you play as one of Blizzard's iconic characters from Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo. At first glance the game looks like a typical 5 vs 5 MOBA, but there are changes that differentiate it from its competitors. The matches are shorter, items have been replaced with talents and all maps have different side objectives. Overall, the changes have made the game more intense and varied. The main thing that I have issues with is the payment model. At first it seems fair and reasonable, but after a while you realize that you have to spend tons of money if you want to unlock all the characters or play the game for a long time. [Sept 2015]
  3. Games Master UK
    Aug 18, 2015
    86
    A welcoming avenue into a visually complex genre, with supreme production values. [Summer 2015, p.74]
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