Hero Generations
Step into the gaming world with Hero Generations, one of the top $4.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Heart Shaped Games LLC, this captivating Strategy game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 9+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 18th August 2016, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 16th November 2016.
Whether you have a liking for Strategy, Entertainment, or Role Playing games, Hero Generations is sure to keep you hooked!
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** Suggested Minimum Hardware: iPhone 5, iPad 3, iPad Mini 2 **
Hero Generations is an innovative Roguelike/4X Strategy game where every turn is one year of your life. Praised as "the offspring of Sid Meier’s Civilization, Jason Rohrer’s Passage, and The Legend of Zelda."
Explore, find a mate, build a home, and raise a child before you die to keep your legacy going. Hero Generations is simple yet deep: 4X Strategy on the individual level. Each turn is a meaningful choice, without the tedious micromanagement.
LIMITED LIFESPAN AND PERMADEATH
Each move equals one year of your hero’s life. Think carefully about how you spend the hero’s time. Explore the world for fame and fortune, but make sure to find a mate before it’s too late!
GENERATIONS, MATING, AND HAVING CHILDREN
Find a mate, start a family, have a child. Then take control of that child in that same world! Choosing the right mate is key, as inheritable traits (special abilities) make your child more powerful and prepared.
6 STRATEGIC PATHS
Guide your hero to greatness by pursuing Strength, Love, Exploration, Wealth, Fame, and Building.
CITY CRAFTING SYSTEM
Construct any of 19 legacy lasting buildings next to towns to give future generations useful resources, powerful new abilities, and attract better mates.
EXPANSIVE OVERWORLD
Each world is procedurally generated with towns, forests, ancient ruins, heroes, and more. Discover all 6 unique Biomes (Forest, Desert, Meadow, Island, Swamp, and Volcano) through a giant overworld map.
MEANING
A surprising and thought-provoking experience, that explores themes of death, legacy, family, love, and more.
Gorgeous hand drawn art style.
OTHER FEATURES
- Tech tree and Building Blueprints
- Tons of items, traits, buildings, characters and quests, including end-game, generational events, and final boss
- Online leaderboards and Achievements
- Blazing fast frame rate, lighting, particle effects, and animations powered by the Unity Game Engine
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What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of Hero Generations on 16th November 2016:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
A variety of balance changes, polish, and bug fixes.
Event system expanded upon. Look out for new timed events in the future.
Hear from the Players – Hero Generations Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about Hero Generations:
This game has some fresh new concepts that we’re really digging. The lifespan throws an interesting twist on things. We think the gameplay could use a little more depth to help with the replay value though we haven’t made it past gen 5 yet so may be missing something. It would be cool to see more variety of attacking, including a magic element. Overall very fun, challenging and new!
A great blend of genres. It has an old school feel reminiscent of Mario RPG. Deep strategy. Not a time sink because the game saves after every turn.
Worth it! Pick it up. Hope to see more from the team that did this game.
Finally discovered that this was on IOS it’s really enjoyable. Best app we’ve played in a long time.
Easy and fun. The learning curve isn’t bad and the variation allows for unique play through each time. Well worth the money you’ll spend on it.
We like the idea of handing your traits and abilities down to the next generation. The adventuring is fun and we like how you can build up your villages. Great replay value!!
Totally worth the money. Really fun and innovative.
This is a real mobile game, not some piece of trash, free to play scam with advertisements insulting the player. EA likes to take good games and make them unplayable like peggle and plants vs zombies. Not only do you have to pay for the trash, but they also come littered with ads and a free to play, con artist design implemented. You wont find that here. This is a real mobile game.
This is a fun game dont let the graphics fool you. And some strategy thrown in with some RNG as well.
Great game if you want to try something a little different. The lifespan concept is fresh, and the various mechanics, while familiar in some ways, are given a whole other dimension when the sense of passing time is thrown in. Can’t wait to get a few more generations in.
We are having difficulty finding a way to enjoy this game, which is a shame because we suspect there is quite a lot to enjoy. There are a couple in particular which are bothering us that we can really identify. -press and hold to preview a square seems to be a bit wonky. We have found that more often than not our character moves right into the square. -no map knowledge is transferred between generations. We would be ok with a fog of war or similar for current activities, but it would be nice to at least maintain knowledge of the location of terrain, towns, landmarks, last known building, etc. It feels a bit silly not to have this given the theme, did we bury Mom/Dad with their exploration notebook or something?
Pretty much everything is RNG, not quite what we would call RPG or 4X style gameplay. Minor resource gathering and random trait generation is about as close at it gets. You don’t control anything except where a small number of buildings go and when you go to the next generation. Also, good luck once robots start showing up. Just as soon as you think you got rid of them, another wave starts wrecking your buildings. Blacksmiths are essential.
This game is conceptually great. Low life span, play through generations, build towns in order to reap rewards. However there are some flawed mechanics that result in more of a grindy puzzler than an rpg feel. Number 1 – theres no clear overarching quest or story. Complete quests for fame… Use fame for nothing? Theyre basically points and other than a couple small mechanics dont do much. Number 2 – from a clear math perspective it takes 7 years to collect everything from a SINGLE town. Number 3 – you are very limited in the number of items and traits you can build up. Number 4 – the random number generator delivers a little too many 0s out of 87 for our taste. Nothing like dying to a 87 to 3 combat w/5 life left to decide to put this thing down and try something else. This game has a great concept, but needs a few mechanics changes to be playable. Extra item slots (1 shield, 1 sword, 2 general, or something like that), unlimited talents (w only 2 passed on maybe), and collect everything from your town when you touch the center square maybe. As is Im putting it down after 2 hours.
This is definitely not a $5 game. We expected more. It’s a simple game that gets old fast.
Great concept and play design. But, its ultimately way too frustrating. We had to delete it after a couple dozen attempts. The unrelenting RNG makes it unplayable. On almost every turn theres a 10% chance of bad luck. Eventually, all of that bad luck adds up.
This game is fantastic. Definitely a GOTY contonderer (to be contonderd!). The way the game opens up as you move your way through generation after generation is just outstanding. The only negative thing we can say is that after this last update we’ve been running into black screen issues after finding a mate. It usually happens right after we pick the traits for our next generation, then boom, black screen. Thankfully it saves our last move with the previous generation and we can just close and reboot the game, but it is kind of upsetting getting some GREAT traits and then having to reboot and reroll… We’re on a 6S w/ iOS 9.3.5 (I DON’T WANT TO UPDATE MY PHONE!!!!!) Other than that, this game is pure gold. Something we’ll never delete, that’s fairly deep and can be played forever. =oP Thank you for bringing this to the AppStore!
Played this game at IndyPopCon and it was awesome. The Devs helped us turn by turn and figured out how to make better heroes, fight battles etc. We literally played for close to an hour or whenever they kicked us off to let someone else try it out. Definitely worth the buy.
We’ve read some of these other reviews calling this game out for falsely advertising itself as a "4X game". We can see where both sides are coming from. It’s probaly not strictly a 4X game by most people’s traditional interpretations of the genre, but it inarguably has 4X elements. 4X – eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate. There’s definitely exploration (procedural world, fog of war, etc.). Expand – The structures your heroes build and upgrade stick around across generations, that way your future heroes have access to better upgrades faster, and in further away locations. Additionally you can settle down in new areas to expand your influence starting with your next generation hero. Exploit – this one is a bit iffy, but there are resources in the world that you collect, and you build structures that generate resources for you. Exterminate – There’s no single symmetric-to-the-player enemy, but there are enemies and you get bonuses for clearing them out. Eh. All that being said, and disregarding the 4X baggage and just looking at it from the perspective of "how is this game?": The first time we played this, we honestly wasn’t sold on the gameplay. But we decided to buy it anyways to give it another shot. That’s when it clicked. It’s a game with hidden depths and strategies that don’t quite show themselves on the first playthrough or two, especially due to the procedural nature of each run. Overall: a good game with a novel, unique take on an increasingly vanilla staple. P.S. @HeartShapedGames: Major props on the procedural hero generation system. We love how many variations in heroes there are and how the children resemble the parents. P.P.S. @HeartShapedGames: we’re glad we took a chance on a premium game. It’s refreshing not being limited to the grind + nickel & diming of F2P.
Very fun and interesting game!
The game leads a concept that would be fun if it wasn’t terribly done. There is nothing really to do in this game besides walk around mate into new generations and just build crap. None of this is even done right and just so lazy.
Still playing through all the content but so far it’s super fun!
Really awesome mechanics and fun gameplay Highly recommend.
We’ve had this game on our Outa and Steam in its original incarnation, and loved it but always felt it would be at home on mobile. And now that it’s on mobile, it works sooo well that we play this game on our phone exclusively now. Our favorite part of the game is the ancestral story you create through your game play choices. If you love strategy and rogue-like games, you cannot go wrong with this one. Fair warning it’s hard to put down cuz you’ll alway want to play one more generation before you quit :)
Awesome game. ! Very challenging on your road to fame and fortune ! Great for all ages. Great graphics. Well done. FUN. !!!! Everyone has to try it.
Well worth the money, and well made.
Beer an pretzel rogueLITE, good for short gaming sessions. NOT a 4x by any means, or an rpg, as there is almost no character development the player has any control over. 2 stars for originality and execution 1 for passable UI and game mechanics -1 for misleading advertising (pics and description) -1 for no control over character development in an rpg.
Load a game or start a new one; good chance it will crash. Start a new generation; good chance it will crash while generating your child. Get a text message while playing; good chance it will crash. We’re done with trying to play. Way too unstable. It’s confusing too considering how simplistic the game and graphics are.
Not a terrible game, but it is in no way a 4X title. It is a massive stretch to call it an RPG as well. We’re giving this a negative review based on the misleading description and relatively high price point. It’s a very simple rogueLite with a tiny amount of RPG elements thrown in, got boring in about 15 minutes. Our opinion – not worth 4.99$. We would not purchase this for anything over .99 cents.
Stupidly we ignored the negative reviews of the steam version of this game and thought we would like it bc its an RPG on the iPad. We should have listened. This game is a good idea, but its very convoluted. A waste of 0.99 and we bought it for 4.99. Boooo.
We backed the Kickstarter for this game and am so excited to get to play it on iOS. Such a fantastic combination of strategy and roguelike. And that art, so beautiful!