Pixel art, timeloops, and the ability to make the screen look like a CRT monitor: these are all excellent reasons to enjoy things, and Loop Hero has all three.
Set in a world where everything has been forgotten, and almost all is lost, players will be cursed to walk around a procedurally-generated loop, which fills with monsters as the days pass. By placing down cards — Vampire Mansion, Ruins, Mountain, that kind of thing — you can influence what appears, and how many threats you have to deal with. Some cards help; others are risk vs reward.
Just make sure you have enough energy to kill the boss at the end, or you'll lose most of the resources you gathered along the way — you need those to upgrade your camp, the only thing that isn't trapped in the timeloop.
Loop Hero is coming to the Switch this Holiday season, which is excellent news if you want to play it soon, although we do feel like it was a missed opportunity not to release it on Groundhog Day.
Is Loop Hero one of your must-haves from the Indie World showcase earlier today? Have you already played it on PC? Let us know in the comments!
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This seems like good fun, i'll check it out when it arrives.
Think I'll definitely grab it when it releases on Switch. It's something that I can see myself getting hooked on.
Is this as complicated as it looks?
This game was amazing on PC. It fully commits to its murky DOS era aesthethics, has very cool atmospheric soundtrack (with boss themes that go hard) and gets really addicting once you get further in the game to unlock more cards.
I'm not sure if it's at its best with a gamepad but I've tried it and it works okay even like that.
In any case, I wholeheartedly recommed this.
This was one of my favourite games this year, and one that will probably translate really well to the Switch.
@Ooyah
Not really. The main idea of the game is rather simple: your character moves around a board on its own and you can place tiles that make character's travels easier, harder or usually both at the same time. You get to choose which tiles you use in a level but you get them by random. You also get random loot from time to time and get to choose perks for your char from time to time.
It starts straightforward but for example the third character class mixes up things a lot and you have to change your strategies to get the most out of it.
If anyone on here hasn't heard of this game, I've been playing it off and on on Steam based on a great recommendation. I can safely say, this game is both unique enough to warrant at least a look and also familiar enough to make it fun as hell and warrant a purchase. It's extremely addicting and checks off lots of boxes for RPG fans: equipment management, tower defense-style gameplay (but sort of like a reverse tower defense), pressing risk and gambling with high reward, map and time management, and rogue elements because some progress carries over to the next run (when you die you start over but with some things from the previous run).
It's honestly one of the most refreshing games I've played in a long time: familiar, yet it completely does its own thing and I can't really name any other game that does what it does.
The soundtrack is phenomenal too... I purchased that separately.
The best way I can describe the game is you start out with a defined path/loop. It's different every time. You place environmental tiles down that act as obstacles, often with enemies. Crossing over a tile in your path engages in combat with the enemies on the tile which, when defeated, grant you rewards in the form of (better) weapons or armor.
In this way, you sort of choose your own difficulty in that you can place really difficult tiles down and potentially deplete lots of your health, but the rewards really help you on further tiles.
Some items grant you health with each attack and lots of stats are stackable. Sometimes placing tiles in a certain way or pattern grants other map effects too (faster movement, more rewards, etc.). It's really just a blast to play... I 100% recommend this game and if I were to ask for just one game to come over to Switch, this would be it. I have been asking for this, in fact; it's going to be so much fun having this on the go because I truly dislike having to sit in front of my computer to play it on Steam even though it works pretty dang well with a mouse and keyboard. I wonder if they'll somehow work in touch screen controls... There's a bit of dragging and dropping for placing tiles and equipment.
Hope ya'll enjoy it if you end up getting it!
Love it on steam. If I had known that it would come to Switch I would have waited😅
Maybe I buy it Again. A nice and very enjoyable game.
Sounds intersting and something in which the gameplay eventually can have a surprising amount of depth and considerations. Need a review but has promise for me
Love this game! It is so much fun on PC! Waiting for more heroes and cards to drop
I've sunk gajillions of hours into it on Steam and am I overjoyed I can finally play this timekiller on the move.
Definitely Game of The Year for me, and I am very likely double dipping on it.
Had this game recommended to me a couple times and I’ve been waiting for a switch version.Day one purchase for sure.
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