Bookmark Hero shrinks a full RPG experience into a slim sidebar window where your hero pursues quests, battles, and crafting entirely on their own schedule. Queue up tasks and watch your character explore, level skills, and gather loot passively while you focus on other work, with progression continuing whether you're actively playing or away. It's ideal for players who want deep fantasy gameplay without demanding constant attention.
About this game
Bookmark Hero is a fantasy, peripheral-idle RPG. Play from a bookmark-sized window on the side of your screen and instruct your hero with queued tasks. Watch as they explore lands, conquer monsters, hone skills, craft gear, and embark on quests. Even as you work, their legend unfolds.
Players, last 69 days
Peak 0 · Low 0
Daily peak concurrent players, sampled once a night from Steam.
Hello Adventurers!A big update has just landed. Bookmark Hero 0.4.0 brings ranged and magic combat, fishing, food, and a more complete tutorial.Updates and Changes- Ranged combat is in. Craft bows and arrows, and wear a full set of leather armour.- Magic combat is in. Craft staves and wear a full set of cloth armour.- Spin fibre into thread on the spinning wheel, weave it on the loom, and tailor cloth armour with a needle and thread.- Tan hides into leather and work that into leather armour.- Fletch arrow shafts and bow staves, then string the bows with thread.- Shape staves at the artificer's bench and set them with gems.- Fishing is in. Bring a rod, catch something, and use the fishing station to make fillets and bait.- The trinket slot is now a food slot, and auto-eat can keep your hero eating from it.- Death now opens a You Died screen. Your tasks stay put until you choose Revive or Clear Tasks.- Combat styles (Accuracy, Defensive, and Critical) are saved with your hero. Combat experience is shared across the skills involved, so Accuracy levels more slowly.- There are now enclosed environments and buildings.- The Map Book now has Region and Local pages. Region lists the places you've found. Local is for travelling inside the region you're in.- The Log Book now keeps the people you've met, with a portrait, where you last saw them, and how their quests stand.- The new dialogue system allows for conversations to branch and offer quests.- The tutorial has been updated for the new skills.- In the demo, skills stop gaining experience at the demo cap. Opening a full-game save in the demo keeps the experience it already has.Bugs and Fixes- Fixed a bug where crafting would stop after 9 items.- Fixed hair showing through leather cowls.- Heaps of other bug fixes. Too many to list.Let me know what you think! Please report any bugs or feedback to the Discord and/or Steam discussions bug channel. Thank you and happy adventuring!
Hello Adventurers! The Online Update has just landed. Bookmark Hero 0.3.0 is about sharing the world with other players, and taking your heroes with you when you switch machines.Updates and Changes- Other players are now visible in your world while playing (optional toggle in settings).- Log book updated with Friends list added to see other Steam friends who are playing.- Steam Rich Presence now shows your friends what you're up to in-game.- Steam Cloud sync has been configured to sync audio settings and heroes.Bugs and Fixes- Fixed a bug where Tut would give another tinderbox instead of advancing after firemaking.- Fixed a bug where queued tasks were lost after death.- Fixed a crash that could happen around campfires.- Fixed the quest book using the wrong graphic when pressed.- Fixed the demo and full game both showing as in-game on Steam.Let me know what you think! Please report any bugs or feedback to the Discord and/or Steam discussions bug channel. Thank you and happy adventuring!
- Added Leather Cowl for ranged skill.- Updated core engine to 4.7.- Fixed flashing hero hover label bug.- Fixed health bar not properly updating after switching hero.- Fixed quest info tab not updating properly after switching hero.- Fixed flashing inventory grid bug.- Fixed a bug where hero would get stuck in a chopping loop if they were too low level for tree.
Posts come from Steam's official announcements feed.