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Mobile game · 2016

Idle Heroes

The aim of Idle Heroes is to assemble a group of Heroes and to continuously improve and equip them with new items. With these heroes fights are carried out, repeatedly, which brings different rewards. Even when you're not around. Idle Heroes offers more than 200 heroes in different factions with specific and unique skills. Summon them, train them to become more powerful, or convert them into special material to evolve your other heroes. Furthermore you're able to forge magical Equipment or beat various contents like dungeons, quests or raids.

Estimated daily players

~780,0000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 62K6.5M

Estimated total players

~16,000,0000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 6.2M43M

See what's trending

Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out

Nov 9, 2016AndroidiOSPEGI E10+

What the estimate rests on

  • Google Play 58%
  • App Store 31%
  • Reddit 11%

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play Idle Heroes, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on Google Play, App Store, Reddit, Twitch. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.

Estimated daily players

~780,000

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 62K6.5M

No source reports a live count for this game, so this is a share of the total player base — a genre assumption rather than an observation, which is why the range is wide.

Estimated total players

~16,000,000

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 6.2M43M

Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.

Estimated total players over time

2 readings · last 2 days

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for Idle Heroes per calendar month, newest first
MonthEstimated total playersChange
August 2026~11,000,000

Community activity

Last checked Aug 9, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed Idle Heroes where it is sold.

Google Play ratings

964,871

Average rating
4.7
Installs
10M+

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Ratings left on the Android listing. It is the broadest signal in the catalogue — about half of all games here have a Play page.

App Store ratings

106,600

0.0% no change vs Aug 8, 2026
Average rating
4.8

Ratings left on the iOS listing, read from Apple’s public lookup endpoint.

Community signals

How many people gather around Idle Heroes outside the stores — members, subscribers and live viewers.

Reddit members

88,448

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Subscribers to the game’s subreddit.

Twitch viewers

0

Live channels
0

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

People watching this game on Twitch right now, summed across every live channel in its category.

Not tracked for Idle Heroes: Steam, Discord, YouTube. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play Idle Heroes?

We estimate that about 16,000,000 people have played Idle Heroes — plausibly between 6.2M and 43M. Around 780,000 of them play on a given day, in a range of 62K and 6.5M. Both figures are modelled from public counts on Google Play, App Store, Reddit and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is Idle Heroes still active?

Yes. Idle Heroes is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.

How are the Idle Heroes player estimates worked out?

Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 2 readings taken since August 8, 2026.

How big is the Idle Heroes Reddit community?

Idle Heroes has 88,448 members on Reddit, as of August 9, 2026.

When was Idle Heroes released?

Idle Heroes was released on November 9, 2016 for Android and iOS.

What platforms is Idle Heroes available on?

Idle Heroes is available on Android and iOS. You can get it from Google Play and App Store (iPhone).

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