Double Kick Heroes

Double Kick Heroes mixes a shoot'em up with a rhythm game. You must survive on the highway to hell by killing monsters with your gundillac. Only the power of METAL can save your band!

75 13 August 2020

Arcade Fighting Indie Music Shooter Action Comedy

Double Kick Heroes is an arcade developed by Headbang Club, released 13 August 2020 on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 26 Aug 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam

What Double Kick Heroes is

Double Kick Heroes is an arcade game developed by Headbang Club and released in 2020. It was published by Plug In Digital. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Adobe AIR.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Double Kick Heroes mixes a shoot'em up with a rhythm game. You must survive on the highway to hell by killing monsters with your gundillac. Only the power of METAL can save your band!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 38 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Double Kick Heroes holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 53% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5 - 1.6 Ghz, 3 GB RAM and Intel HD Graphics 5500. At 3GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Double Kick Heroes launched on 13 August 2020, within three weeks of Factorio, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, Risk of Rain 2 and Crusader Kings III. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 7 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Factorio, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, Risk of Rain 2, Crusader Kings III.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Double Kick Heroes — frequently asked questions

When did Double Kick Heroes come out?

Double Kick Heroes was released on 13 August 2020 for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Double Kick Heroes?

At minimum, Double Kick Heroes needs Intel Core i5 - 1.6 Ghz, 3 GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics 5500 graphics, 5 GB available space of storage.

How many GB is Double Kick Heroes?

The PC version needs about 5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("5 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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