Fit check
Is Heads Will Roll: Reforged worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- RPG players who want survival systems and turn-based battles
- Medieval-history fans who want branching choices and relationship consequences
- Players who enjoy replayable runs with randomized encounters and persistent roguelike progression
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a straightforward, low-management combat system may find its many combat variables demanding.
- Players who prefer a fixed campaign may not enjoy randomized runs, shifting events, and consequence-based interactions.
- Players looking for a purely story-focused RPG may find the survival and equipment systems too prominent.
- Players seeking a non-medieval setting will not find that setting here.
Our take on Heads Will Roll: Reforged
The game’s layered survival and combat systems make each decision matter, but they also add friction to the campaign. Managing fatigue, injuries, weapons, supplies, and equipment leaves less room for players who want the story to move without frequent tactical and resource choices.
What is Heads Will Roll: Reforged?
Play as a foot soldier during the Hundred Years' War and try to rise into knighthood through battles, decisions, and survival management.
Turn-based fights account for attributes, weapon familiarity, reach, fatigue, injuries, and equipment. More than 200 lootable items include weapons, armor, poisons, medical supplies, and crafting materials, while crafted goods include utility items and crossbow ammunition. Character actions affect NPC attitudes, later interactions, and some events. Randomized items, enemies, choices, and encounters vary between playthroughs. Story mode includes quick save and quick load, while a separate roguelike mode carries profile progression across deaths.
How Heads Will Roll: Reforged plays
- 01Turn-Based Combat
- Battles factor in attributes, weapon skill, reach, exhaustion, wounds, and equipment.
- 02Randomized Campaigns
- Different starting gear, opponents, decisions, and events create varied runs.
- 03Consequential Relationships
- NPC attitudes can alter later conversations, interactions, and special events.
- 04Item Crafting
- Collected supplies can be combined into medical goods, utility items, and crossbow ammunition.
- 05Roguelike Progression
- Deaths can increase profile progression, unlock starting equipment, and raise base characteristics.
- 06Story Mode Options
- A separate mode includes quick-save and quick-load functions for players prioritizing the narrative.
Heads Will Roll: Reforged compared to similar games
Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition centers on an unconventional story, characters, and exploration, while Heads Will Roll: Reforged combines its narrative with survival management, turn-based combat, crafting, and randomized runs. Back to the Dawn is a prison-escape RPG focused on fighting, investigation, and breaking free from a maximum-security facility, rather than a medieval war campaign.
Heads Will Roll: Reforged: platforms & release
Is Heads Will Roll: Reforged worth it?
It is worth it if: RPG players who want survival systems and turn-based battles. Skip it if: players seeking a straightforward, low-management combat system may find its many combat variables demanding.
Where can I download Heads Will Roll: Reforged?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Heads Will Roll: Reforged's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Heads Will Roll: Reforged on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
