Heretic's Fork

9FingerGames · Ravenage Games

Released: Sep 13, 2023
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 03:21 GMT

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23 Apr 2026Developer post
Heretic's Rapture - A sequel to Heretic's Fork.
Ah Sh*t, Here we go again! Heretic's Rapture is a direct sequel to Heretic's Fork. A tetris-like, Tower-Defence, Deck-building - Bullet Heaven. Build a tower out of tetris-like blocks that synergise in unique ways to survive hordes of demons in hell. Hell is overpopulated and is
08 Mar 2026Developer post
Hotfix 08/03/26
Fixed an issue from the previous patch that caused enemy speed to be much faster than expected. Cheers, Stevie
17 Feb 2026Developer post
Minor bug fixes
Hey everyone! Quick update: * Fixed an issue that caused enemies to speed up & slow down randomly at high torment levels. * Fixed an issue that caused the discard pile cards to appear behind other UI. Cheers all, Stevie
07 Nov 2025Developer post
New Game from 9FingerGames
Hey everyone! We just released a new game! It's a little idle spider that lives on your screen while you are working, studying, or playing Heretic's Fork. Owning Heretic's Fork also unlocks a Klippy to use as a spider in My Little Spider. View game page There is also a %20 discou
13 Mar 2025Developer post
Heretic's Fork - 50% OFF in the Steam Spring Sale!
Welcome, Hell Manager! 🔥💀 The Steam Spring Sale is here, and we’re offering you a scorching 50% OFF deal on your new job in Hell! Manage overpopulation, punish sinners, and run operations using our cutting-edge system, HERETIC'S FORK. Your duties: ✔ Choose your demon subordinat
07 Mar 2025Developer post
Heretic's Fork SMALL UPDATE
Hey Heretics! We’re excited to release a small update that fixes and improves some bugs. Bug Fixes: Gamepad vibration support added (with an option to disable it in settings) Max rune count reduced to 8, you don't get a new rune at the start of an endless run anymore Fixed a rare
19 Dec 2024Developer post
Heretic's Fork - 50% OFF in the Steam Winter Sale!
Welcome, Hell Manager! 🔥💀 The Steam Winter Sale is here, and we’re offering you a 50% OFF deal on your new job in Hell! Manage overpopulation, punish sinners, and run operations using our cutting-edge system, HERETIC'S FORK. Your duties: Choose your demon subordinate to oversee
14 Nov 2024Developer post
🔥 Hell's Gates are Open - Play Heretic's Fork on Consoles Today! 🔥
Greetings, Heretics! The time has come for our most devoted followers to experience Heretic’s Fork on an entirely new platform. Now available on PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, and Nintendo Switch , it’s time for console players to step up and join the ranks of
Greetings, Heretics!
The time has come for our most devoted followers to experience Heretic’s Fork on an entirely new platform. Now available on PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, and Nintendo Switch, it’s time for console players to step up and join the ranks of Hell’s management team.
Watch the Launch Trailer Here
Watch on YouTube
🌌 Step Into Hell’s Hottest Role 🌌
In Heretic's Fork, you take on the role of Hell’s newest overseer, responsible for keeping the damned in line and the gates of the underworld secure. Use powerful upgrades, strategic decks, and Hell’s arsenal to fend off wave after wave of escape attempts from relentless souls. Every choice you make will determine your success in managing Hell's chaotic underbelly.
⚔️ A Unique Twist on Tower Defense and Bullet Heaven ⚔️
Heretic’s Fork isn’t your average tower defense game. With a unique blend of roguelike, tower defense, and bullet heaven mechanics, each run presents new challenges and unexpected twists. Choose your character - be it Intern Ruby with her raw enthusiasm or Gilbo Gibbins with his luck-based abilities - and dive into the inferno.
Highlights for Console Slayers:

Intense Tower Defense Gameplay: Dive into a chaotic mix of tower defense and bullet heaven on your console.
Optimized Controls: Smooth, immersive gameplay designed specifically for console controls.
Enhanced Visuals: Dark, detailed graphics bring Hell to life in high definition.
Heretic's Fork has built a devoted following as a “wildly addictive and demonic experience.” Now, console players can join the madness and see if they have what it takes to keep Hell under control.
Will you withstand the fires, or become one of the lost?
Thank you for all your support, and welcome to the inferno. We’ll see you in Hell. 🔥
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17 Oct 2024Developer post
Heretic's Fork | Coming to Consoles, November 14th 2024!
🔥 Heretics, Prepare for the Console Invasion! 🔥 We are beyond excited to officially announce the console release date for Heretic’s Fork! 🎮 Coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch on November 14th, 2024! 🎮 Watch the Release Date
🔥 Heretics, Prepare for the Console Invasion! 🔥
We are beyond excited to officially announce the console release date for Heretic’s Fork!
🎮 Coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch on November 14th, 2024! 🎮
Watch the Release Date Trailer on YouTube
Watch on YouTube
In Heretic’s Fork, you'll step into the fiery shoes of a demon responsible for managing Hell’s own tower defense system. Your mission? To prevent escapees from eternal damnation by strategically placing traps, minions, and more. With a blend of strategic deckbuilding and tower defense, it’s your job to ensure Hell runs smoothly.
🏆 Key Features 🏆

Deckbuilding Meets Tower Defense: Choose from various cards to create your perfect defense strategy.
Manage Your Realm: Oversee multiple levels of Hell and make sure no tormented souls escape!
Dark Humor: Hell has never been so hilarious with our twisted, comedic narrative.
Console-Optimized Enhancements: Enjoy improved performance, refined controls, and optimized UI designed specifically for console gameplay.
🔥 Coming to Consoles on November 14th, 2024 🔥
Heretic’s Fork will be available digitally across all major platforms, so whether you're returning or diving into the inferno for the first time, you’ll be able to experience Hell’s favorite management sim in all its devilish glory!
🎤 Developer Quote 🎤
“We’ve had so much fun building out the world of Heretic’s Fork, and we’re thrilled to finally bring this chaotic, devilishly addictive experience to console players. It’s time to show that managing Hell isn’t just a job — it’s a game!”– Stevis Andrea, Solo Developer at 9FingerGames
Known Issues:

Crash in endless mode after several hours of playing.
Tower upgrade controls may become unresponsive in later stages of the game.
Rare conditions may cause wrong towers to combine or delete unrelated towers after combining.
The mouth in the center of the Gluttony stage might disappear in some cases.
We're excited for your feedback and will continue improving the game! Thanks for your continued support.
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01 Aug 2024Developer post
Heretic's Fork V1.2.1.5 | Minor Update + 50% OFF
Hey Heretics! We’re excited to share some exciting updates with you! We’re continually working on polishing the game and rolling out bug fixes and patch notes as quickly as possible. To celebrate the new Tower Defense events and our upcoming participation in the Tiny Teams events
Hey Heretics!
We’re excited to share some exciting updates with you! We’re continually working on polishing the game and rolling out bug fixes and patch notes as quickly as possible.
To celebrate the new Tower Defense events and our upcoming participation in the Tiny Teams events, we’re also launching another sale this month – 50% OFF! 🎉
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2181610/Heretics_Fork/
Without further ado, here are the patch notes for this update!
Changelist:
Crash Fixes:

Fixed an issue with crashing on tasks/challenges screen when entering or exiting fullscreen with alt+enter
Fixed random crash at the start of the shift
Fix for rare random game crashes in menus
UI and Display:

Fixed newline display on the character selection screen
Trashcan will unlock automatically now if the user used the key to unlock the saves folder earlier
Endless button now has an explicit description saying that no further rewards will be given
Internal rework of Rewards menu UI to improve performance
Gameplay Improvements:

Fixed an issue that allowed the tower to be healed even though it had already dipped below 0.
Added Traditional Chinese localization
Preload system resources on the loading screen to avoid freezes during gameplay on low-end systems
Gamepad controls fixed for card unlock splash screen
Can select torment level above 2 with gamepad now
Can use gamepad in torment shop and social menus now
Punished sinners counter now speeds up if you punished too many sinners in a short time (default speed is 30 sinners/sec)
There is a 5-second delay between autosaves now to reduce HDD/SSD usage
Regeneration card now instantly heals the tower by the healing amount left when changing stages
Some caching and pre-caching to speed up the game in different places
Card Adjustments:

"Intimidation Tactic" card logic reworked
Fixed issues where the following card effects wouldn't be saved/loaded correctly (Blighted Blood, Boiling Blood, Bonus, Burn Them All, Curse Them All, Dark Believer, Dominate, Duplicating Shiv, Enlight Them All, Healing Flame, Hellflame, HolyMoly, Hot Potato, Holy Fire, Intimidation Tactic, One Man Army, Pick of Destiny, Powerdraw, Quake, Rainbow, Redemption, Repercussions, Retribution, Salvage, Shadow Priest, Shot, Spammer, Synergist, Trinity)
Trinity power doesn't give passive bonus to tower and garrison damage when it's inactive and works exactly as the text on the card says
If you have more than 1 charge of Intimidation Shuffle, then reshuffle will consume the charge and all reshuffled cards will be free
Known Issues:

Crash in endless mode after several hours of playing (may be unreachable after HP lock fix in 1.2.0.5)
Tower upgrade controls might become unresponsive on later stages of the game
Some rare conditions may cause wrong towers to combine or delete unrelated towers after combining
The mouth in the center of the gluttony stage might disappear on some frames under certain circumstances (happened with Forker and Sin Spotter towers with lots of ASPD boosts)
We’re committed to continuously improving the game and your feedback is greatly appreciated. Please let us know what you think!
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15 Jul 2024Developer post
Heretics Fork Hotfix
An update to fix some issues with the recent update as well as add the ability to recover crashed endless runs. Added an autosave that occurs when entering endless mode — if the game crashes during endless mode, then this file can be used to re-enter the shift. (Prevents the play
An update to fix some issues with the recent update as well as add the ability to recover crashed endless runs.

Added an autosave that occurs when entering endless mode — if the game crashes during endless mode, then this file can be used to re-enter the shift. (Prevents the player from losing the rewards for completing a shift due to crashing in endless mode.)
Updated GameMaker version.
Fixed an issue that made the enemies jump forward when fps is low.
Fixed an issue that highlighted structures on the left panel when they aren't being selected.
Slightly adjusted the Russian localization to ensure the text fits in one line where needed and does not go off-screen.
Fixed some crashes related to the input system for controller support.
Correct prompts now display in the pause menu when using a gamepad and steam deck.
Please report any bugs, we will fix them in future hotfixes!
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02 Jul 2024Developer post
Heretic's Fork Hotfix
- Some elbow grease on the code to fix crashes and improve build stability and overall performance
27 Jun 2024Developer post
The Savior's Descent Update + 50% off on Steam Summer Sale
Dear Heretics, We want to extend our heartfelt thanks to each one of you for your support and patience. It's been a while since our last update, and we've been hard at work perfecting the game based on your valuable feedback. After months of alpha testing, we’re ready to announce
23 Apr 2024Developer post
My Little Life - New Game from 9FingerGames
Hello everyone! Stevie here - the developer behind Heretic's Fork. Thanks so much for all your support, your kindness has allowed me to continue doing what I love. You are the reason I'm able to keep creating things and I can't thank you enough. I'm super excited to share somethi
Hello everyone!
Stevie here - the developer behind Heretic's Fork. Thanks so much for all your support, your kindness has allowed me to continue doing what I love. You are the reason I'm able to keep creating things and I can't thank you enough.
I'm super excited to share something new that I'm working on!
My Little Life is a life-sim that lives on the bottom of your screen
You can think of it as a modern day tamagotchi. You periodically check in on your little person making sure they are doing okay.

Build and decorate the little home at the bottom of your screen.
Place new items to keep your little person happy.
Choose a career for your little person, and place items to increase their skills.
Sit back and relax while your little person lives out their life.
My Little Life is designed to be played in the background. With no loud popups or events that have to be acted on immediately. This allows you to continue punishing sinners while your little person lives through their own ~~torment~~ life.
Click here and wishlist My Little Life, allowing you to get notified when the game gets released!
Stay tuned for updates by following Twitter, and joining the Discord server of 9FingerGames!
PS: Heretic's Fork is going nowhere and we will continue to support the game! More content and announcements regarding Heretic's Fork are on the way!
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25 Mar 2024Developer post
Heretic’s Fork on Steam Deckbuilder’s Fest + New QoL Update on Beta Branch!
Hello Heretics! We’d like to extend our gratitude for reaching 100k copies earlier this month, we really appreciate the amazing support in this incredible community and hope your souls are well rested these days we’d like to mention that there’s going to be a 30% Discount on Here
14 Mar 2024Developer post
Steam Spring Sale, and a New Update is coming soon!
Hello everyone! We’d like to extend our gratitude for the recent milestone we’ve achieved and could never have without your support, we recently sold 100,000 copies of Heretic’s Fork and we’re extremely excited to share that we’re taking part in Steam Spring Sale where Heretic’s
04 Mar 2024Developer post
100,000+ Managers of Hell
Hi everyone! Today, we’re excited to share that we’ve officially sold over 100,000 copies worldwide on Steam! ❤️ and we want to take a moment to thank everyone who has supported us on the journey of Heretic's Fork . Our goal has always been to create a game based entirely on feed
02 Feb 2024Developer post
Heretic's Fork — Bound to Hell
Hello Heretics! It’s been a while and just as of writing this announcement we hit the milestone of 2,000 reviews on Steam, thank you very much!!! 💓(road to 2,5k? Please consider leaving a review if you haven’t already) We had a very wild run last year, the work goes on as we pro
21 Dec 2023Developer post
Christmas of Hell Update
Hello Heretics! We'd like to start off by thanking each one of you who have played, shared and supported the game during this interesting year, The recent reviews on our game Heretic's Fork are now rated “Overwhelmingly Positive” on Steam and In celebration of this occasion we're
Hello Heretics!
We'd like to start off by thanking each one of you who have played, shared and supported the game during this interesting year, The recent reviews on our game Heretic's Fork are now rated “Overwhelmingly Positive” on Steam and In celebration of this occasion we're launched a large giveaway on X (formerly known as Twitter) so feel free to check that one out!
So without further a do! It's time to reveal what we’ve been working on for the past month, and what’s a better time to reveal it than early Christmas, we have officially collaborated with the iconic multi-platinum rock band, Disturbed, and we’re delivering an 4-song package of pure banger, let's dive Inside the fire 🤘
(Dev Note: This update is more than just a DLC with 4 songs, read the full announcement for more cool information)
🎶 Heretic’s Fork x Disturbed 🎶
Introducing the new — Inside the Fire DLC, here’s what’s new!
🎧 4 Music tracks from Disturbed 🎧

Indestructible — Instrumental
Torn — Instrumental
Inside The Fire — Instrumental
Curse — Instrumental
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2744540/Heretics_Fork_Inside_The_Fire
🆕 7 New Variants 🆕

Cozy Ruby
Riff Master
The Guy's Roadie
Master Gilbo
Monkey Lord
Reckless Niya
Humble Shredder Greezy
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2744540/Heretics_Fork_Inside_The_Fire
🤘 Free Expansion Update 🤘
🃏 7 New cards 🃏

Infrastructure
Beelzebub
Pick of Destiny
Festive Tree
Boiling Blood
Blighted Blood
Snowball Strike
👗 4 New Free Variants 👗 (Unlocked via new challenges)

Empire of Greezy
Critical Roller
John the Builder
Denny Claws (unlocked via Holidays file)
🏆 Challenges 🏆
New challenges to unlock the above variants

Critical Mass
House of Cards
Empire of Sin
🎼 New Music 🎼

12 new tracks from POSTAL REDUX
1 New track from Rotting Christ
9 New tracks from Sakis Tolis
🔥 Things that no one asked for 🔥

Unholy Crit is now capped at 75%
Christmas Wallpaper
4 New wallpapers from POSTAL REDUX
The following old variants are now also unlocked via challenges:

Unknown Tormentor
Tormented Ruby
Messy Denny
🔥 Things that everyone asked for 🔥

Music shuffle button in options menu
- Reworked Greezy in a way that should make her early game less punishing while still maintaining her play style.

Can upgrade cards similarly to other employees
Only gets one “choice” when upgrading.
Gets rewarded gold for every upgrade.
🎁 Steam Winter Sale 🎁
Heretic's Fork will be on another 20% OFF sale celebrating the Steam Winter Sale event, feel free to grab the game for yourself or for your friend, it makes the perfect Christmas Gift 😉 It would be quite… hot.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2181610/Heretics_Fork
That’s all for today, May your Christmas be as hot as the depths of hell – If you made it this far don’t forget to leave a review, For in the depths of hell, my job depends on you.
Join us on Discord to share your endless run high score or send us feedback, and follow us on Twitter to stay up to date with our news!
Sincerely!
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23 Nov 2023Developer post
Heretic's Fork has the Most Innovative Gameplay?
Greetings Heretics, We're super excited today to announce our nomination for the Most Innovative Gameplay on Steam Awards, our dedicated team of one solo-developer is tirelessly working on the game since we released it back in September, and we’ve been hard at work delivering maj