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Hero Project Redemption Season – Roleplaying Game Review
Hero Project Redemption Season is a Roleplaying/Books/Adventure game from Choice of Games LLC, first launched in 7th April 2016.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 31+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Hero Project Redemption Season Stand Out
America's #1 reality show for heroes is back for another season! Harness your superpowers to steal the spotlight, win votes, and save your sister!
"The Hero Project: Redemption Season" is the first installment in a new series of interactive novels by Zachary Sergi set in the "Heroes Rise" universe. Your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based–129,000 words, without graphics or sound effects–and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
In a contest where everyone has superpowers, your opponents can cause earthquakes and explosions, but you're an average Ani-Powered who wakes up with different animal attributes every day. Will your hawk eyes or canine claws take you far enough in the competition to satisfy the only person who can help your sister? And what happens if winning isn't enough?
As you advance, the decisions you make will transform viewers' ideas of what it means to be a hero. Will you fight for your own goals, or make sacrifices for the good of society? Strive for what you believe is right by following the rules, or take down the whole system with more radical methods? Would you take wealth and fame over changing the world?
Choose wisely. It's Redemption Season.
• Play as male, female, trans, or nonbinary; gay, straight, or bi.
• Begin a new story in Millennia City, influenced by your actions in the "Heroes Rise" trilogy.
• Play as a new hero, in a new season of The Hero Project!
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
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Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th August 2023
Recent improvements include:
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Download & Availability
Hero Project Redemption Season is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
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While an ok standalone game, The Hero Project: Redemption is an honestly pathetic sequel to the phenomenal Heroes Rise series. Where the games before rely on characterization and entertaining and deep story arks, Redemption falls flat on its face by not only refusing to give any background information other than what you already know from the other games, but also by having flat; one dimensional characters and a terrible power set which gives you a different animal power set every in-game day. The story is meant to be an essay on minorities and discrimination but winds up feeling overly preachy because of the narrative style of the new author. Although the attempt to take this series in a more serious and realistic direction is admirable and fairly well executed, the story ultimately has the same problems as Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. We came in expecting a fun, silly ride with dark, serious undertones. Instead we received an authors noble yet misguided attempt to make a statement and bring about change at the cost of what amounted to a power fantasy With a healthy dose of political intrigue with racial undertones when fighting in the slums and a power fantasy of epic proportions when you fight with the Heroes Rise universes version of the JLA or the Avengers, the Millennial Group. We are going to try the next game that comes out. Heres hoping that its handled better.
This book, along with the heroes rise trilogy, is absolutely wonderful to read. Weaver is literally one of our favorite characters ever. Cant wait for the second book.
The writing of this game is fantastic, and the world you play in seamlessly flows from the world of Heroes Rise- sometime shifting focus of story/characters can make you feel like its a different setting, even if it all takes place in the same city. We especially enjoyed all the different powers and characters shown in the story. We also very much like the story itself, with the reality TV show, the PCs strange powers, and the shocking twist in the story revealing the Big Bad. However, the entire story is utterly riddled with social commentary and seemingly non-stop condemnation of racism, sexism, and bigotry. These things are important issues, but it feels like were beaten over the head with them at times. One of the characters, a straight white male (from the South no less! Horror of horrors!) is called out by a trans character for being, surprise surprise, a bigoted, privileged, white male. The man was already written as sort of a jerk character, at that point youre just trying to write him as a villain. Thats just ONE example If you overlook those issues- and theyre hard to ignore because it feels like theyre literally everywhere in the story- its a very fun game to play through, and we love our character and her relationship with her sister, JK. We hope the next game isnt so heavy-handed with the Social Justice though.
We appreciate the efforts the author is going to be inclusive but there isn't an ounce of subtlety in this story. There are about 5-6 different points in the game where your character monologues about underrepresented people and has to make a decision about what you plan to do about them. They're literally the same questions and answers slightly reworded with no effect on the story. Of all the Hero Project games we felt like we had the least control over the outcome in this one.
We have always loved these interactive books and we cant wait for the next one This one kind of ends abruptly.
The reality show was probably the high water mark of this author's other series, but this one just appears to be long on wind and short on action. Question: what sort of RPG has you describe your character's powers long before basic facts like your character's gender or orientation? Presumably this is some sort of message from the author, but we came here for a fun adventure, not to read the pretentious opinions of some windbag. Give this one a pass. If you want to see a Choice of Games app that handles political messages well, try Choice of Robots or the Hosted Game Choice by Gaslight, which have amazing writing and interesting choices.
We love this series dearly and hope that this next episode is as good as we hope.
This was like having to relive finding out what it means to be bisexual, and we loved every second of it.
Honestly this whole series and this continuation of it are gems that everyone should experience.
We loved how there is another group of powerds and that you can be the voice of your oppressed and miss treated people the only thing we hated was how it kinda leaves you hanging but besides that a great game.
We're so excited for the next part to come out! We really enjoyed this book.
If you loved the heroes rise trilogy as much as us you may have thought, nothing could beat that experience. But we reluctantly admit we enjoyed this new installation even more, possibly the author has grown and it seemed more evolved but as much as we loved our old heroes rise character and his storyline this new storyline has us even more invested. Essentially what we're saying is this is well worth the 4.99 and we would buy it again in a heartbeat, if you liked heroes rise or even if your new try this game. Also the author allowed saves from hero fall to create a great background story revolving around your previous experience which is super unique and awesome. We doubt the author will read our review, but if by some chance you do, thank you so much for the awesome content and we hope you keep up the great work. :) Regards, A loyal fan.
These games have had consistently awesome games and have not let us down by continuing its streak with The redemption season with great writing and compelling stories. We also love how you don't need to play each game in order to enjoy it. We read this one first and still absolutely loved it and when we realized this was a series we were ecstatic. While we think that some of the characters could use a bit more fleshing out and some more dimensions it is a great game and we are am excited to see its future.
We have to agree with other reviewers, it's a little much on how much it focuses on minority rights. Of course, it could just be not our cup of tea. There's is still so much to love in this new series. Your character is extremely unique with his skill set. We have to admit, we did miss our original characters powers, but we grew to love the randomness of our new powers and what our character went through from the day to day. We also love how the actions you made throughout the other series can be brought over as Null is still alive and our character acting as its leader. Thought we do have to say that we bonded a lot better with the characters from the first series. It might just be us being nostalgic about the first series, but the characters here just aren't as memorable. Thankfully, the author managed to incorporate Prodigal into the new series, which made us so happy since she was such a unique character with amazing backstory and motivations.Throughout the book, you also get to see how a majority of the characters from the original series is doing and what they're up to. Usually, we find it difficult to find interest in a new book series that continues off of another series, but this has us hooked. We're looking forward to finding out this "threat" that our character will face.
We don't buy a Superhero book for Social Justice Warrior moralizing. We enjoyed the first three books because it wasn't the predominant feature, though it was all over it, but this was too much to read; both the subtle and the overt social moralizing made it just boring. We couldn't finish. Let's just overlook the hypocrisy of an SJW writing about equality and not being arbitrarily put into boxes while requiring you to adhere to rigid stereotypical tropes. Maybe we're calculating but honorable, or a loyal ally but we make our own decisions and won't do anything mindlessly just to keep a trope up so that our legend level doesn't drop. Maybe we let Sparrow or Tarana Rain die over Sonja Challa not because we are a fame seeking sociopath, but because we see the role of a hero to be protecting civilians even at the cost of our lives because we signed up for the job. Final complaint, why is our straight male character who has identified as straight and male, constantly checking out other dudes and having awkward moments of attraction to the same gender? Sexuality isn't as fluid as they teach you at SJW school, try respecting a declared orientation. We would not buy this again.
Amazing game sure but it was way to short needs to be longer.
We very much enjoyed the first Hero trilogy, and this next entry proved just as engrossing and complex. A lot of people are griping about preachiness in these reviews, but this game is dealing with race and gender identity issues, where the first game(s) focused on socio-political issues. And it raises a lot of awesome issues, in the powered universe context, which is exactly what great sci-fi should do–make us examine what it is that makes us human. We think this is a brilliant take on the super hero genre, and how super powered individuals might shape and influence society.
So we're not a fan of the powers of this hero but that's the point of his cause to help awareness . Which actually makes the book better because your emotions match your character . Hoping you finish this trilogy . You should definitely let us readers choose the powers in the beginning of the story if that's not to difficult to implement into a COG.
At first we were a bit iffy on redemption season, but then we got waaaay into and now we're really excited for the next part of this story.
After playing the original Heros rise trilogy and being amazed at the quality of it, we came into this game with high hopes… Those hopes were met and we're now on the edge just waiting for another game.
We accidentally found this series one day and after playing the first three we said "there's no way these can get better." But it did there is so much mystery and when all the clues come together the deeper/developing storyline is stunning.And we swear when you see Next:Epilogue. You'll wish it went on forever.Plus there are some really deep messages in this game and it really makes you think. What you would do in a scenario like this. Not to mention used something like a game/book to bring up the point of discriminated or "unrecognized" we believe is what they call it groups or society's put a real life feel into the game aside from all the superpowers and stuff. And just that connection to the real world really makes the game/book more relatable and more fun. And we CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT ONE.
Happy to see another Hero Rise game. Can't wait for he next one.
It's certainly different from the rest of the hero series. Some may find that good or bad. Personally, the story this game is telling is one that resonates deeply with us. This is particularly so with the way it handles the topic of disability. As a disabled person, we really appreciate the complexity the game has given to the topic. We have never had a game handle it as well as this one. We've seen other reviews calling it too political. More than anything we feel that wording highlights how easily people who don't face anything similar can label the struggles of marginalized people–our very lives–as political. We respect anyone's decision to not like this game, particularly if they can't relate. But we urge anyone who feels this way to think about how people who this game resonates with often can't relate to mainstream media storylines and representations. We extend thanks to the developers of this game. Their games have been incredibly inclusive and we have nothing but absolute respect for them.
We've been with this series from the very first book. We've loved every part of it and we are anxiously awaiting the next part. We love the characters, suspense and the actions you get to be apart of during the game. We find every friendship and relationship on the game unique and the world of the book series to be a interesting and awesome one. Very deserving of a five star review.
We love all of the heroes rise games!!! This one was so awesome. It has relatable characters, interesting main story arch, and lots of decisions to make!! Love it.
As a massive fan of the original Heroes Rise trilogy, we had high hopes and expectations for this first installation of the follow-up series. We were not disappointed. One of our favorite aspects of the books is how, as you advance, the narrative and thematic focus transitions from the individual struggle of your hero into considering how your actions effect the world and attitude of the people around you. Zachary Sergei's awareness of the still-relevant need for dialogue about representation of minorities, systematic oppression and prejudice elevated the Heroes Rise trilogy from a collection of entertaining games into one of our favorite literary pieces. With the Redemption Season, he's done it again, expanding both the world and the central argument with a refreshing new perspective. Fun, thought-provoking, and progressive, both this app and his previous works are definitely worth the purchase.
We enjoyed the game, we find the different powers each day a nice spin on our hero. We enjoy the issues raised and discuss since it relates well in our world, but we feel it shouldn't be limited on just those areas, maybe there can be a touch up on subjects like pollution, drug addiction, over population, things that also contain relevance in today's world, we're eager to see how it affects in the world of heroes and maybe if our character lends a hand in these problems. One more thing we would like to see added is more info and scenes of our old character hero! Keep up the good work.
It was an amazing story to be a part of.
A great follow-up to forerunner trilogy. It was thoughtful and more politically relevant perhaps than its predecessors. A definite reccommendation.
This game does not let down the expectation set by the Heroes Rise Trilogy. In fact it expands on the Heroes Rise universe, allowing readers to explore the minority viewpoint of life in Millenia City. We loved seeing the our old favorite characters (for returners) and meeting the new ones. Excited for the next installment.
This game was so great! We felt so accomplished by the end and we cannot wait for the next installment, which better come out soon.
We're a huge fan of the Heroes Rise series and was so excited to find out that this new chapter focuses on Ani powereds! They were always our favorite, even with their bad rap, and the way the author explores their struggles is very reminiscent of modern struggles in the real world. And that's for a reason, just like the struggle the MC faced being Infini powered in the first Heroes Rise games. There are real people who identify with differently abled characters featured in this chapter, and it's so nice to see a voice being given to those who normally are kept silent, even if it is set in a fictional world. Altogether this is a great first chapter for the new season of Heroes Rise.
We're a huge fan of the choice games and currently have about 24 of them still installed on our phone. We've had some for about half a year that we love so much we can't bring ourselves to uninstall them. This was a great throw back to our favorite choice of trilogy and was everything we wanted out of it. If you like the choice of games you'll like this one like any other.
This was amazing, the writing is wonderful as always, and the creativity blew us away yet again. Some people who left reviews said the interactive part wasn't good but it was just as good as any other choice of games book, a bunch of different endings are presented making it so enjoyable. All in all, we couldn't stop reading.
There's so much to love about this game/story and we, unfortunately, have so few words to describe this love. It checks all the boxes for us. We loved, loved, loved it's inclusiveness and the parallels that can be drawn between the society in this story and our own and what implications can be made from the struggle both realities face. It goes deeper than the typical game and its unique representation allowed for an overwhelming connection/investment in the story. We can't thank the writer enough for giving ourselves and others the chance to experience such an amazing story and we can't wait for the next one.
This story is just as good as the hero trilogy was.
Great story, with great characters. We are SOOO excited to see what else is in store for this series.
This game is very fun and interesting. There are many choices that truly matter in each situation. The game is also pretty long compared to a few other "Choice of" games we've played. Which is a very good thing since it is quite entertaining. This game is quite in depth and we highly recommend it.
The collection really needed this game, the whole feel of it is like in the past, the suspense, the marvelous journey, everything. If they could like never stop making these that would be AWESOME.
This is the most beautiful game we have played out of the Heroes: Rise series! As an asexual ourselves it's so amazing to be represent and RESPECTED in the game for who we are and what we do. The story is a breath of fresh air so incredibly and thoughtfully written that it was like watching a movie and reading a book at the same time. We could picture everything so clearly!!! Not only that but characters with disabilities are beautifully rich and diverse characters with wonderful development through the the game. We sincerely cannot wait for the next game to come out and HIGHLY encourage you all to play it! ( if you're reading this Zachary, thank you, you cannot believe how much this has helped us in our everyday life. We appreciate what you do SO much and we wish you'd get told that more often. With love, Jess ).
Story was fantastic. Super excited for the next one.
This story is just as great as the first 3 and now we are extremely excited for the next one/s.
This is definitely as good as the others in this series we definitely recommend this if you have read the last three books. We can't wait for the next part.
We don't usually write reviews but this game was amazing please make a sequel.
We're a fan of the Heroes Rise trilogy, so to see this series continue/expand makes us happy. The new story is a fresh take on the familiar "Hero Project" reality show from the previous trilogy and has the twists and turns that made that one such a blast. We found this new story suspenseful, multi-layered, and with a side order of social commentary that we found thought-provoking. More please.
Sergei does it again in this captivating story. We have to admit at first we didn't think we would enjoy this game. The description kind of sounded silly but we figured we would give it a try anyway. We are so glad we did, because it turned out to be such a moving and intricate story, with strong ties to issues that plague our society today. We highly recommend this game to anyone, but especially to people who are moved by social issues.
We haven't even played it yet and we can recommend it with full confidence.
It was a fun game to play, a great way to follow up to the previous series, and we can't wait to see more.
We still enjoyed it. We honestly do prefer the original series; decision making was much harder and we found ourselves torn, but in this episode we felt everything was more straightforward and easy to deal with. We liked the cameo of our original character, but we wish we were following her story instead. This one feels too political.
As a huge fan of the original Heroes Rise trilogy, we were going into this hoping that the things we loved about the first 3 still remained in this edition. We're happy to say that this is the case in a majority of cases. Our only two complaints, minor as they may be, regard the characters and the political nature of the story. Admittedly, we felt like the characters could've benefited from a tad more development, but, assuming there are more works, we can imagine this will be addressed later. Secondly, the very specific angle this story drives the reader in, while being inextricably linked to the way the character is intended to develop, seems a bit heavy-handed at times, and in doing so pulls a little bit from the freedom we saw in the original 3. All in all, however, we're thoroughly impressed, and we hope to see more stories soon.
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App Details
- Version: 1.2.9
- Size: 25.03 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: Choice of Games LLC
Last updated: 25th August 2023 | Genre: Roleplaying, Books | Developer: Choice of Games LLC