Today’s Niche Spotlight is Hero’s Hour, a turn-based strategy RPG by Benjamin Hauer, Goblinz Publishing, and Maple Whispering Limited.
Pick your hero from one of 22 classes and explore massive procedurally generated maps. Build up your town, amass a massive army, and conquer your enemies.
Battles are in real-time, using an auto battler-style format where your units fight on their own with carefully timed support from your hero with skills and spells. Compete or cooperate with your friends in local and online multiplayer via Steam’s Remote Play feature.
You can find the launch trailer below.
Hero’s Hour is available on Windows PC via GOG and Steam for $17.99.
You can find a rundown (via Steam) below:
Hero’s Hour is an accessible, yet-deep and content-rich Strategy Roleplaying Game. Take control of your hero, explore the world, build up your town, fight fast-paced battles, level up your hero and amass an army large enough to take out the opponents – before they take you out.
Turn Based + Real Time
While exploring the overworld and developing your town and army are both turn-based, giving you time to think and plan out your next moves, in battles your units will do the best to fight for themselves in real time – all hundreds of them. Cast spells and give attack orders to swing the tide of battle – or just sit back and watch as your might unfolds.Procedural Generation
Hero’s Hour brings impactful procedural generation to the strategy game formula, ensuring that every time you play, there will be new areas to explore and strange buildings to enhance your hero or army. Seek out obelisks to start you on small procedural quests that send you around the world. You won’t even be able to use the same build order each time you play the same faction.Features
- 11 factions with special mechanics, strengths and weaknesses
- 22 hero classes, with a special skill each
- 50 common hero skills
- 177 units (and 99 upgraded units)
- 80 unique unit abilities
- 166 artifacts
- 83 spells (+18 spells unlocked via skills)
- Dozens of impactful map buildings
- Local “hotseat” multiplayer
- Co-op with other players or even with the AI
Being on the faster side compared to other turn based strategy games, you may even be able to finish the hotseat games that you start!
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