Hero Mages
Step into the gaming world with Hero Mages, one of the top $2.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by D20Studios, LLC, this captivating Role Playing game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 9+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 12th April 2012, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 20th May 2020.
Whether you have a liking for Role Playing, Strategy, games, Hero Mages is sure to keep you hooked!
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Dive into Hero Mages
Hero Mages is a turn-based tactical strategy fantasy game that combines the fun of role playing games (RPGs) with competitive and cooperative cross-platform multiplayer gameplay. Designed and developed by a single individual driven to share his passion for gaming with the world, Hero Mages also blends the best elements of tabletop miniature and collectible card games.
GAME PLAY
Hero Mages is played from a top-down perspective allowing the player full visibility over the battlefield. Each player commands a party of three fantasy heroes, including a powerful mage. Equipped with a set of dice and a hand of cards representing magical spells, players take turns commanding their party of heroes. With the power to unleash the wrath of the elements, summon heinous creatures, and manipulate the world itself, the player’s mage is their ultimate hero as they leverage skill, politics, and luck to eliminate their enemies and emerge victorious!
*** GAME FEATURES ***
>Multiplayer: Cross-platform, realtime, and asynchronous turn-based multiplayer are supported! Play free for all, team, and cooperative games with up to 8 players per game from all over the world!
>Six campaign missions entertain your sense of fantasy RPG humor as the precocious characters of Papillion teach you how to play this simple yet compelling game
>Over 80 diverse spells and abilities offer limitless opportunities for creative strategies and intense, climatic struggles
>6 unique playable character classes to build your offline and multiplayer battle party (Sorceress, Fighter Mage, Warrior, Paladin, Rogue, and Bard) as well as special characters encountered in the single player campaign and used by the computer.
>Expand your playable character roster and create custom levels via In-App purchases
>Quick Battle – An offline, single player mode that pits the player in a randomly generated battle against the computer.
>Custom Battle – An offline, single player mode that allows you to create custom battle scenarios against the computer
>Robust multiplayer statistics tracking and leaderboards
>Play on any device! Hero Mages automatically adapts to fill the screen of your iPhone and iPad.
>Rejoin Live Games – Spectate live games or rejoin a game if you lose your connection
EXPANDABLE CONTENT
Hero Mages can be expanded with In-App purchases. Expansion content is tied to your multiplayer account so you can use it on all of your devices without having to repurchase. Expansion characters will work in single player once you’ve logged into your multiplayer account for the first time. The map editor and custom levels can currently only be used in multiplayer.
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of Hero Mages on 20th May 2020:
Fixed bug that was preventing access to multiplayer.
Hear from the Players – Hero Mages Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about Hero Mages:
We like it please update more its pretty fun but it looks sorta dead :( please continue to update this game!!!
This game is cool. If you just play iOS, its fun. But you can login multiplayer & play on Web (Flash), PC, Mac, and asynch turn-based. Don’t let the homebrew look throw you off. Actually a lot of game here. You get a squad of 3 – a Mage and 2 sidekicks. So do the opponents — up to 8 in a battle! And that’s what you do — battle!! Dice rolls keep outcomes uncertain, but a few strategic tricks can change outcomes. Some really strong sidekicks (Barbarian…?), but generally all are useful. Good game, highly recommend!
This game is great for board game fans! We love it so much we have bought for our kindle as well ( tho the App Store version seems to run smoother). The live games are so much fun, but the async mode is perfect if your short on time. We also love the combos between character abilities, well thought mechanics! Get it you won’t be sorry!
If you like turn based strategy games and or tabletop miniature battle games, this is your game. Look no further. It puts you right into the action with easy to understand rules and tutorials. It even has multiplayer. Hope there is added content later on. We also wish there were some sort of persistent level up mechanic and card collecting. But that’s our one minor complaint. . . Well that and also we wish there were more main units. Buy it!
Very fun and makes you use your brain. It’s a pleasure to play this game with people. Wish there were some new updates.
Just what we’ve been looking for. We love how balanced all the characters are. We have a blast just setting it on random and enjoying using whoever we get. What sets it apart from outwitters and hero academy is the single player. Sometimes, we just want a quick game without waiting for so and so to hurry his turn up. Amazing work! We were happy to support it by buying expansions. Please add a character gallery so we can quickly reference what people do without having to exit the app.
Enjoyable game! Looking forward to more characters being implemented! :) we like that the game’s developer is very passionate about the game and its continued success.
Cant play.. Get grey screen which, when tapped goes to the web page, which tells us we cant play without flash. No rating.
Finally a great miniature skirmish war game has come to the iOS world. This game really scratches that itch for tabletop war gaming, without all the hassle.
We’ve played the computer version of this game off and on for the past couple years, and we love it. Now we can take it wherever we go. We’re hoping for more campaign updates in the future, but besides that good job.
Absolutely love this iPhone port will be sharing with all our friends!
The review our Lil Pips has some great info, so we’re not going to overload you. If you are looking for a really crisp, cool RPG’ish game this is pretty spot on. The developer seems to be promising more content (free) in updates, and we don’t mind the game not having an extensive campaign mode, though adding one would be a thoroughly welcome addition to an already good product. We bought it to doodle with while watching television or riding our exercise bike, or whenever we have a free few minutes. We’re patient, and with so many other sweet games vying for our attention we’re sure before we know it this will have several updates. Hats off to the Dev, and thank you for bringing a game like this to our iPad/iPhone. We wish games bursting with juicy potential were released more often!
The design of the gameglay and the interface is incredible! It is so seamless! There are a couple limitations, but we know the developer is working on them! He keeps in close contact with his users, and for that reason alone you should download and check it out!!
Well a cross platform multiplayer game that uses cards mini’s and D20… What’s not to love. We had a couple issues and the developer had them corrected within hours. We have been a serious gamer for over 20 years now and have never got the kind of support that we have from this dev. Thanks for the great game and great support!
We are really impressed with the design of this game. Excellent turn based combat centered around dueling mages and their entourages. A large array of spells and special abilities. Really great stuff!
We are a HUGE gamer. Played almost every RPG on the iPhone. We must say, this one has promise. It is like Hunters with a bit less slickness, but more in-game variety (with the spells and all) and a sword and sorcery theme. We’re enjoying myself so far and we would recommend it both for fun and to support the developer for putting in the effort to give us an enjoyable game.
Love the game, the style it’s meshed in we like more than we thought we would. Loving it, HOWEVER, we hate the fact there are characters available that we can’t play for whatever reason. If this is additionally purchasable, there should be a link in app.
This tutorial campaign was awesome and got us so excited! But then many of the characters aren’t available till the expansion Potential to be incredible and will be a five star app in a month or so.
We’re glad we purchased this game, as I’d like to see more from this obviously talented developer. A LOT of Hero Mages is done extremely well. The graphics are crisp, the UI is beautiful, and things like the game log and line of sight are done better than in some AAA titles. The strategy on hand is good, if not particularly deep. The ability to have multiple offline and online games going at once is fantastic, and we wish more games included this. Some negatives for this title: 1. Don’t let the description fool you into thinking you are getting a campaign. The six missions are just a tutorial. The first three missions barely even let you do anything. The final three are fine (with some interesting choices that can even change the way the tutorial plays out!) but amount to maybe 15-20 minutes of gaming. This is a big negative, and almost strikes us as false advertising. A real campaign would be most welcome here. 2. Around half of the champions cannot be selected for games. They are only available during the very short tutorial missions. This seems silly, as more choices equals more strategy. 3. This most definitely has NOTHING to do with a CCG. The spells could (at a STRETCH) be called cards, but there is nothing collectible about them, and you cannot do ANYTHING with them before a game (no deckbuilding for example). 4. You track so many different statistics, and yet when it comes time to choose our champions, we must go to a WEB PAGE to see their health, attack, defense, and abilities? No No NO. Put this info where it belongs. 5. The lobby system is neat, but Game Center integration would be better (with leaderboards and achievements). Don’t let this stop you from picking this one up. With a few patches, this will be great!
A lot of time was put into this game, but it seems like there was no focus testing. No campaign? No difficulty slider? No thank you.
It’s too hard for new players.
We must admit we expected something quite different. There is no campaign mode so you are stuck playing simple single matches. This got old quickly. The game suffers from lack of options and a compelling reason to play. Couple this with a combat system heavily hinging on the RNG and you have something of an oddity. We uninstalled it, sadly after about ten matches.
We bought this because of how much we still enjoy the computer versions. We will be trashing this version since it is nothing but a battle engine. Who cares? Admittedly if it was possible to actually win an occasional battle it might be different. We have been playing this for several days without being able to win a single battle. We have gone through the tutorial seven or eight times plus about twenty or thirty of the two different battle options. Hopefully the developers will actually rework this into an actual game rather than simply a battle engine. We would choose no stars exempt you are not given a choice. You have to pick at least one star to upload a review. This is why we choose to put "No stars" in the title field and the nickname field.