Heroes of the Dark: Squad RPG

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"Heroes of the Dark: Squad RPG" is a thrilling Role Playing Game, where you recruit and command a squad of humans, werewolves, and vampires on a quest for ultimate dark power. With its intriguing storyline, spectacular game mechanics, and excellent graphics, the game offers a unique and immersive experience. However, be prepared for lots of grinding, numerous bugs, excessive advertisements, and frequent in-app purchases.

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Play Modes

Single-Player Play through the game's story or campaign solo

Heroes of the Dark: Squad RPG screenshot

69%

Audience ScoreBased on 3,389 reviews

graphics132 positive mentions

grinding65 negative mentions

The game features beautiful graphics and character designs that enhance the overall experience.
It offers a good mix of RPG elements and strategy, making it engaging for players who enjoy character building and resource management.
The community aspect is strong, with many players finding enjoyment in guild interactions and cooperative gameplay.

The game is heavily pay-to-win, making it difficult for free-to-play players to compete against those who spend money.
There are numerous bugs and technical issues, including frequent crashes and problems with loading, which hinder gameplay.
The gameplay can become repetitive and grindy, with many players expressing frustration over the slow progression and lack of meaningful content.

graphics
187 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
71%
25%
4%
The graphics of the game receive generally positive feedback, with many users praising the beautiful artwork, character designs, and smooth animations. However, some players note issues with a lack of variety in character designs and tasks, as well as occasional graphical glitches and performance problems. Overall, while the visuals are often highlighted as a strong point, they are sometimes overshadowed by gameplay concerns and monetization issues.
- “I love the artwork and the character designs are gorgeous and suggest a larger story.”
- “Great graphics, engaging characters, and easy to pick up and learn.”
- “The graphics remain beautiful, as well as the story and the events are fun!”
- “The art style is unappealing.”
- “Graphics are mediocre at best.”
- “Cheap looking, very old graphics and dull greedy cash grab gameplay, avoid.”
gameplay
117 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
38%
51%
10%
The gameplay has received mixed reviews, with many players noting its smooth mechanics and appealing graphics, but criticizing it for being slow-paced, overly reliant on pay-to-win elements, and lacking innovation. While some appreciate the RPG and dungeon crawler aspects, others find the overall experience repetitive and frustrating, particularly due to monetization barriers and idle mechanics. Overall, the game offers a blend of solid concepts and enjoyable elements, but is hampered by issues that detract from the gameplay experience.
- “The gameplay is smooth, the character design and concept theme are interesting.”
- “Gameplay is solid, mixing in RPG mechanics of raid with aspects of army/town builders.”
- “Amazing gameplay!”
- “Gameplay offers nothing new and oddly enough the things designed most to wrest your time simply fail entirely.”
- “A gorgeous setting severely let down by weak and linear gameplay.”
- “This game feels like the company doesn't care about gameplay except the money.”
story
105 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
46%
4%
The game's story is generally well-received, with many players appreciating its engaging narrative, beautiful artwork, and diverse character designs. However, the pacing suffers due to excessive grinding, leading to a fragmented experience that can detract from the overall enjoyment. While some find the storyline captivating, others criticize it for being repetitive and lacking depth, suggesting a need for more varied content and updates.
- “Fantastic story, characters, guild, and battle system!”
- “Great storyline with creative fantasy.”
- “It's always a pleasure to find an app with a decent story-line, a variety of different characters with unique portraits, and not-too-intrusive tutorials.”
- “Storyline very weak.”
- “But since the only faintly positive thing was that the plot wasn't absolute garbage, I didn't feel the need to continue.”
- “I like the werewolf x vampire theme, that's the sole reason I play this game.. but unfortunately the gameplay is boring, the story is boring, character development is also boring.”
grinding
66 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
2%
98%
The game is heavily criticized for its excessive grinding, with many players finding the leveling process tedious and repetitive. While some enjoy the grind and the community aspects, others feel it detracts from the overall experience, leading to boredom and frustration. Overall, the grinding is seen as a significant barrier to enjoyment, especially as players progress and face increased demands for resources and character upgrades.
- “But once you try and scratch a bit deeper into the surface, it is a very slow and grinding game, more so than others of this genre.”
- “Storyline is interesting but then becomes extremely fragmented as you spend countless hours grinding to get your characters and mansion high enough to continue it in bits and pieces.”
- “The grinding it takes to level up your heroes and castle is ridiculous.”
stability
49 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game's stability is heavily criticized, with numerous users reporting frequent freezes, crashes, and glitches that significantly hinder gameplay. Many players express frustration over the lack of effective troubleshooting solutions and the game's overall buggy nature, which detracts from their experience and enjoyment. Despite some positive feedback on gameplay mechanics, the overwhelming consensus is that stability issues make the game frustrating and unreliable.
- “I tried every troubleshooting guide on the internet and nothing works.”
- “The game freezes and crashes every single time!”
- “Well, I want to give the game a 5-star rating, but every time I play, the game glitches really bad and it kicks me out, saying 'trying to establish connection.' This happens when I'm attempting to attack an enemy camp, and it sends me somewhere else, almost starting a war.”
monetization
46 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
11%
33%
57%
The monetization strategy of the game has been widely criticized as a blatant cash grab, with many players expressing frustration over excessive microtransactions and a pay-to-win model that hampers gameplay progression. While some users noted the absence of ads, they still felt pressured to make in-game purchases to avoid grinding and to enhance their experience. Overall, the monetization approach is seen as disingenuous and detrimental to the game's enjoyment.
- “Resource management, lots of events, friendly players, non-invasive unnecessary microtransactions.”
- “Good graphics, boring grinding game, no ads (yet).”
- “Easy and no ads.”
- “Typical Gameloft, you can't expect a game from them without all these immoral amounts of microtransactions.”
- “Awful pay-to-win monetization, which is standard in mobile games, makes Heroes of the Dark an average Android game.”
- “If I could give negative stars, I would. It very quickly became a cash grab/whale bait, and almost nothing ever gets updated or fixed.”
character development
11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
91%
27%
Character development in the game receives mixed reviews; while many players praise the gorgeous character designs and artwork that hint at a larger narrative, others find the actual character development and story to be lacking and boring. The gameplay is generally smooth, but some players express a desire for more engaging content and optional features to enhance their experience. Overall, the aesthetic appeal is highlighted, but the depth of character development leaves something to be desired.
- “I love the artwork and the character designs are gorgeous and suggest a larger story.”
- “The gameplay is smooth, the character design and concept theme are interesting.”
- “Gorgeous character design 👌 great game all round, well done”
- “I like the werewolf vs. vampire theme; that's the sole reason I play this game. Unfortunately, the gameplay is boring, the story is boring, and the character development is also boring. That's it, thank you.”
- “The character development feels shallow and uninspired, making it hard to connect with the characters.”
- “I expected more depth in character arcs, but they all seem one-dimensional and predictable.”
optimization
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
25%
38%
38%
The game's optimization is a significant issue, with players reporting problems such as inability to type in-game, change player names, or communicate with guild members, which detracts from the overall experience. While the graphics are praised and the game runs smoothly on some devices, it remains clunky and unoptimized for many users, leading to frustration. Overall, there is a strong desire for improvements in this area to enhance gameplay.
- “It's a good game on most sides, but the thing that is annoying me is that the game is not optimized on all phones. I don't mean stuttering and all that; I can't type anything in-game, I can't change my player name, and I can't talk to guild members. I hope this will be fixed soon; otherwise, it's a very fun game.”
- “Super clunky and unoptimized.”
- “Art 2 + gameplay 2 + optimization 4 + community 1 + development 2 = 11/25”
music
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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38%
13%
The music in the game is highly praised for effectively complementing the overall mood, with some users noting its resemblance to the soundtrack of "Left 4 Dead." However, there are complaints about the inability to turn off the music during data downloads, which some find excessively loud. Overall, the music contributes positively to the gaming experience.
- “I like it a lot, especially the music; it suits the mood of the game very well!”
- “Good graphics, story, and game music; I like it too!”
- “Music reminds me of Left 4 Dead, I don't know why.”
- “Can't turn off the music while downloading data, it's really loud.”
atmosphere
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game's atmosphere is widely praised for its engaging and appealing qualities, with many players finding it enticing despite some repetitive elements and the need for grinding. The animations and overall ambiance contribute positively to the experience, making it enjoyable even for those who are not typically fans of the genre.
- “Not generally a fan of this type of game, but I was enticed by the atmosphere and it's actually pretty good.”
- “Similar to many other games, but atmospheric and nice animations.”
- “I like the game atmosphere and the overall play; though there's a need to grind and the events become a bit repetitive, I have been enjoying it overall.”
humor
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Users find the humor in the game's pay-to-win mechanics, with some expressing that the situation is ironically amusing. However, there is a consensus that the game lacks genuine humor, which detracts from the overall experience.
- “Funny 🤣”
- “Well slow for my old phone, but it's only lacking humor now and this would be epic”
- “Funny 🤣”