Loop Hero

Honestly was initially turned off by the really simple/minimalist pixel art of the Loop Gameplay itself, but thought the concept sounded interesting so I tried the Demo. Played for 8 hours straight trying to kill the damn Lich. The game is a lot of fun and has a lot of depth and interesting hidden mechanics and interactions I won't spoil cause they're a lot of fun to explore on your own. Great and fun game for the value especially. I'd 100% recommend at least giving the Demo a try. Please send help though I can't leave my house until I kill this spoopy skeleton...

While I did like the game's concept and feel the graphics are o.k. (they are not pretty though), I feel that the game is too grindy. Took me 3 or 4 runs to beat the Lich, but now I feel that there is very little progress in terms of game mechanics. I'll give the rogue a couple of hours, but progress village-wise seems veeery slow which somehow puts me off because I do have a full-time, job, wife and kid. Nothing compare to rogue-lites like Monster-Train where you make tough choices during the run and every run starts anew. Yes, you unlock a couple of cards here and there in monster train, but I feel the development of the village in Hero-Loop is too slow.

It's a very average game in which you make some fairly obvious choices, and gradually tick along a predetermined rng curve towards finishing. I think the reason the game only has a 2x speed option (you'll want a 10x within an hour) is that having such an option would expose just how uninvolved the game is and how little you're really doing. It got to the point where I wasn't even looking at the screen, just waiting for the result of the battle, making a choice on the equipment and letting it play on. People telling you this game is something new have clearly not played all the other incremental RNG waitathons (darkest dungeon etc.) - it's nothing new, it's exactly the same as those, uninvolved choices to tilt the numbers as you let time tick by.

[FR] Un jeu aux très bons graphismes pixel rétro, simple à prendre en main et terriblement addictif. Il reprend de nombreux styles tels que stratégie, gestion de camp avec ressources & gestion de personnage avec équipements et talents, cartes deckbuilding, idle game (dans une moindre mesure que tout le reste). L'ambiance musicale ainsi que les effets sonores sont eux aussi très réussis! Le tout pour un prix raisonnable au vu de la qualité du titre. [EN] A nice game with very good retro pixel graphics, simple to learn and extremely addictive. It's a melting pot of many kind of styles such as strategy, camp management with ressources & character management with stuff and perks, deckbuilding, idle game (to a lesser extent than the rest). The musical atmosphere and sounds effects are very well made too! The whole lot for a very affordable price based on the quality of the title. So? What are you waiting for? Christmas?