Modest Hero

Modest Hero follows Victor, an ordinary worker and one of seven prisoners arrested after the June 1848 uprising in Paris. As he is taken toward the end awaiting him, he revisits in his imagination the memories of the beginning of his life’s most important adventure.

After the uprising

The game opens in France at the height of the Age of Revolutions, on the streets of a city devastated by civil war. The army has harshly suppressed the uprising that began in Paris’s suburbs, and Victor and his six captured friends are being taken to be judged. They are disheartened and angry, but retain some hope as their instinct to survive gives them courage.

The workers left behind

The story centers on ordinary people who bear the costs of revolutions and are ignored once the fighting ends. After the fires die down and the streets clear, they bury their dead and carry on with even less. Their accumulated anger at injustice eventually brings them into confrontation with their enemies.