Hero Generations

42%
Game Brain Score Based on 136 reviews
  • gameplay
  • graphics
  • music
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Some flaws in design, but playing heroes with a limited lifespan provides interesting decisions and choices.
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Hero Generations is a unique strategy role-playing game. Players control a hero, exploring, building, and fighting in a procedurally generated world. Each turn represents a year in the hero's life, with permadeath forcing players to continue the lineage, creating a multigenerational journey. The goal is to leave a lasting legacy by achieving great feats and expanding your kingdom.

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Reviews

42%
Audience ScoreBased on 136 reviews
gameplay12 positive mentions
stability11 negative mentions
  • The game features an interesting concept of generational gameplay, allowing players to build a legacy through multiple heroes.
  • The art style is charming and visually appealing, enhancing the overall experience.
  • The game offers a unique blend of strategy and roguelike elements, making it engaging for casual play.
  • Gameplay becomes repetitive and lacks depth after a few hours, leading to diminished interest.
  • Technical issues, such as bugs and a poorly implemented save system, hinder the overall experience.
  • Combat relies heavily on RNG, which can lead to frustrating outcomes and a lack of meaningful progression.
  • gameplay48 mentions

    The gameplay of "Hero Generations" is characterized by its innovative yet simplistic mechanics, allowing for a quick playthrough of several hours, but it suffers from repetitiveness and a lack of depth. While the game features interesting elements like generational traits and a legacy system, many players find the combat shallow and the overall experience lacking meaningful decisions. Despite its casual appeal and decent tutorial, the gameplay can feel unchallenging and buggy, leading to mixed reviews regarding its value and replayability.

    • “Having that in mind, I pretty much enjoyed the game at first, especially its innovative and simple yet captivating mechanics.”
    • “The gameplay is easy to learn but hard to master, making each decision meaningful.”
    • “The mix of '5 minutes civilization' as the dev said and the 'rogue-like' genre, with the mechanic of mating to build a legacy, makes the whole idea interesting.”
    • “I killed the final boss within a lifetime of 15 'hero generations', in full accordance with the in-game quest requirements, but then the gameplay... just didn't stop.”
    • “An interesting concept but there's so many moving parts and you ultimately have so little control that the gameplay feels poorly designed.”
    • “Having played a little under an hour, the gameplay already got very repetitive.”
  • graphics27 mentions

    The graphics of the game have received mixed reviews, with many users criticizing the simplistic and lackluster 2D art assets, which do not significantly improve even with resolution adjustments. While some appreciate the beautifully hand-drawn art style and thematic diversity in environments, others find the overall visual presentation to be reminiscent of low-effort mobile apps, lacking the polish expected from a PC game. Additionally, technical issues such as graphical anomalies and the absence of customization options further detract from the visual experience.

    • “Beautifully hand drawn art style.”
    • “The graphics are beautifully hand drawn with a lot of artistic effort behind it; the game really looks like a piece of art; each area has its own theme, look and feel such as the swamp area with its murky water and gloomy grassy surfaces.”
    • “Good graphics as well as the generation mode of the game is well done.. I give it a thumbs up.”
    • “While there are options to change the resolution for the mobile app, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the mobile app, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality.”
    • “The mobile app features simple, cartoony 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low-effort mobile apps.”
    • “Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing.”
  • music13 mentions

    The game's soundtrack is generally well-received for its soothing melodies that enhance the overall atmosphere, though some players find it can become repetitive and overwhelming at times. Access to the soundtrack is limited, as it is only available through the collector's edition of the original game, while the remastered version lacks a standalone soundtrack option. Overall, while the music complements the gameplay, the sound options are quite basic, allowing only for music and sound effects to be toggled on or off.

    • “The game has a soundtrack that complements the game quite well; it is soothing and really sets the tone, but on the downside, the music can be a bit overwhelming at times and feel slightly repetitive.”
    • “There are no vocals in the OST; it’s all melodies, so it has its perks there. You can always turn that off in the menu and play your own music, unfortunately, the options for the sound are limited to turning the music and SFX on or off.”
    • “Nice music, fun character design, and it is constantly giving me great difficult decisions.”
    • “The only way to get the soundtrack (here on Steam) is to buy the original version of the game with the collector's edition.”
    • “There is no offering for the soundtrack on its own or with the regen version of the game.”
    • “RNG aside, as that is quite inherent to roguelikes, the music is meh and repetitive, and the animations just take so goddamn long.”
  • stability12 mentions

    The game's stability has been widely criticized, with many users reporting significant bugs and glitches that detract from the overall experience. While some players find the game entertaining despite these issues, others express frustration over the lack of timely fixes and the feeling that the game was released in a beta state. Overall, the stability is seen as a major drawback, with ongoing bugs and performance problems impacting gameplay.

    • “The game is pretty well tested and mostly bug-free.”
    • “I haven't encountered any major issues; the stability is impressive.”
    • “The performance is solid, making for a smooth gaming experience.”
    • “Very buggy, and the developers don't seem to care to fix it.”
    • “Game-breaking buggy.”
    • “However, I must let my (bad) review stand because of the misjudgment of the timing of the release of the game which was still buggy and clearly a 'beta' version of the game.”
  • story11 mentions

    The game's story is criticized for its lack of proper progression and engaging plot, relying instead on repetitive procedural generation that detracts from meaningful level design. Players express disappointment over the absence of a definitive ending, as the gameplay feels endless and lacks narrative closure, despite the presence of quests. Overall, while the concept is intriguing, the execution leaves much to be desired in terms of storytelling.

    • “As you play and explore current and new worlds, quests become available offering large fame if you manage to complete them, giving some purpose to the sandbox mode should you wish to indulge in those.”
    • “You get quests as you go to other worlds, and you have a main quest too.”
    • “You get quests as you go to other worlds, and you have a main quest too.”
    • “The mobile app features no proper level design or game/story flow/plot, as they opted to try to use samey repetitive procedural generation algorithms as a substitute for adding such content to the mobile app, to avoid doing the important job of level/map design.”
    • “Interesting game concept, I was intrigued at the beginning, but after playing for a few hours, I realized that the game has no story progression, or it is supposed to have no ending, thus I'm a bit disappointed, to be honest.”
    • “For me, it was a bummer: I like completing projects, even if the 'project' is just beating an indie game in one evening, and I think that turning an innovative game into an endless process for no particular story-related reason is outrageous.”
  • grinding5 mentions

    Players find the grinding aspect of the game to be tedious and unfulfilling, as it involves repetitive combat without meaningful progression or changes in the game world. The slow pace of actions, such as dice rolls, further exacerbates the feeling of monotony, leading some to compare it unfavorably to their day-to-day work. Overall, the grinding feels pointless and detracts from the overall enjoyment of the game.

    • “But since the world doesn't change between generations, resetting the fog of war just makes the game feel tedious when I'm thinking, 'Now which town had the strength forts, and which had the farms?'”
    • “Hero Generations is a game about grinding that goes nowhere.”
    • “The combat is extremely tedious - actions that should take less than half a second (or be instant) like dice rolls end up taking longer.”
  • replayability4 mentions

    The game offers a mixed experience in terms of replayability; while some players find it engaging and enjoyable with great replay value, others feel that the concept of raising heroes through generations becomes repetitive quickly. Overall, it is considered simple and accessible, appealing to a broad audience.

    • “It has great replay value.”
    • “Still a very replayable and simple game that anyone can enjoy!”
    • “You'd think a game with the concept of raising heroes and going through countless generations would have a lot of replayability, but it got old fast.”
  • monetization3 mentions

    Hero Generations has been criticized as a cash grab by mobile developers, with users expressing frustration over its monetization strategy, which includes added microtransactions. The game is perceived as a poorly executed port from mobile to PC, lacking meaningful updates and instead focusing on profit.

    • “Hero Generations is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it were a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile developers. The game is laughably described by the developer as 'the original roguelike.'”
    • “Added microtransactions, received lots of hate and abandonment.”
    • “They effectively re-released this game instead of, you know... updating the current one as a cash grab.”
  • character development2 mentions

    Character development in the game is viewed as mediocre in terms of design, but it is complemented by enjoyable music and engaging gameplay that presents players with challenging decisions, enhancing the overall experience.

    • “The character development is incredibly rich, with each decision feeling impactful and meaningful.”
    • “I love how the characters evolve throughout the game, making every choice feel significant.”
    • “The depth of the characters and their growth over time really enhances the overall experience.”
    • “The character development feels shallow and uninspired.”
    • “I found the character arcs to be predictable and lacking depth.”
    • “The characters don't evolve in a meaningful way throughout the game.”
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