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Idle Hero TD – Simulation Game Review
Idle Hero TD is a Simulation/Adventure game from Swell Games LLC, first launched in 24th June 2019.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 1,149+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle Hero TD Stand Out
In Idle Hero TD – Fantasy Tower Defense, uncover a fantastical world of heroes and monsters! Stop evil creatures from raiding innocent lands! Command a team of heroes to defend the remaining stockpiles at all costs!
In this epic fantasy idle tower defense game, you must defeat monsters to earn resources, tap to unlock and upgrade heroes. Create a team of heroes and place them in strategic positions to defend against an endless swarm of vicious foes!
Your main goal in this Idle TD game is to use your heroes to stop the monsters from reaching the treasure at the end of the maze.
Idle Hero TD – Fantasy Tower Defense Features
Epic Tower Defense:
- Fend off an Orc Horde and Epic Bosses
- Daily missions to complete
Idle TD Gameplay
- Clicker game features to command units with a tap
- Offline gold earnings
Epic RPG
- Fantasy RPG-based world and classes
- PvP Tournament hosted twice a week
Lovers of tower defense games and idle clickers won’t be able to put down this idle RPG. Go on an epic tap quest, explore a fantastic world, battle monsters and defeat tough bosses. Master Your Party in Idle Hero TD – Fantasy Tower Defense! Enjoy it online or offline!
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle Hero TD is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th October 2020
Recent improvements include:
- Minor bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Idle Hero TD is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Nice to finally play another game where we dont feel bombarded with ads or required to buy a $25+ a month battle pass. Just a fun, rewarding time waster. Keep up the good work, devs.
We the pro mannnnn yeh yeh boy.
It's what you expect but has good an idle game twist. Fun with plenty of progression.
We have and do spend money on in app purchases, but this one is so far off the mark in terms of how they monetized the app and broke things into such high prices. We could buy 5 AAA games for the price just to unlock the speed and damage boosts. Look at games like Egg, Inc. And go for volume over individual purchases. This game will never get a cent from us because they don't know how to properly price mobile games. Game itself is fine, could use some polishing… Certainly no BloonsTD. Doing pvp tournaments and being smart about how you play, you can certainly get everything without paying… But it'll take ages. Lack of maps is disappointing, lack of choosing where we put our towers is disappointing (you have pre selected slots). Lack of targeting options is disappointing.
Its now the second time this has happened. We join the pvp tournament and we get no rewards at all. Time sync is off all the time. Their has to be programer error because this is happening more. Im not getting the new day rewards as well. Can we talk to a programmer about this.
Easy to pick up game. Great simple tower defense without a bunch of excessive crap. Greatest part? No pressure to spend money. You can quickly move yourself up just playing the game. FTP people lf a td game should give it a shot. Still in the early stages so it could change. If it does, Ill adjust our review. Right now its relieving to find a game like this.
Great idle game! Has a lot of small unique additions that make up a very satisfying mobile gaming experience. Hope to be playing this one for a long time :).
Has been fun and challenging so far.
Our only gripe is how much everything scales based on your highest wave. For instance, our challenge map earns lower rewards than it did when our heroes were level 1,000 and they are all over 4000 now. Unfortunately, if you add the increased aura cost we are progressing slower. Same goes for the bounties. Its like getting punished for progressing in the game and encourages bagging.
Great idle TD, we like that you can exchange tickets for gems n gems for tickets. Towers r fun.
Once you hit level 60 you need diamonds for new heros, super fun for a while but the, becomes a bigger investment unfortunately.
This is a fun game. But it needs some work. The ads dont load correctly most of the time so we dont get to collect the reward. We would buy the ad free and 2 times speed for maybe 7 dollars. But the in app purchases are way too over priced.
Game seems quite dead, but a good concept. Idle progression is non-existent so prepare to have your game open actively a long time. Im leaving a review because it basically forced us to, to get rid of a pop-up.
We enjoy playing the game, and would be interested in purchasing add-one such as the 2x speed and removing the offline gold drop limit, but we feel like theyre too expensive. If there was a bundle for all the add-ons (like ad remover, 2x rewards, the ones we listed above, etc.) about $20, we would pay for something like that.
4.99 to remove ads 9.992 speed.
- Higher tier chars are exactly the same as lower tier ones. Only the skill has slightly higher numbers 2. All archers, warriors, and mages are the same 3. Abysmal scroll and gold gain 4. 0 strategy involved. Just level and pick the high number version of the 3 classes and thats the whole game 5. Step backwards from their original game in many ways.
Just downloaded it, and Im limited to one tower each? What kinda croc of sht is that. Played till the mini boss and still couldnt build more. Uninstalled and forgot about.
Big fan of being able to onetime purchase Adblock for the game without sacrificing the rewards. Super fun to chill out to.
Honest advertising and a lot of fun.
Just got the game yesterday, we like it a lot so far. Also like how they added the daily log in reward.
There are no adds except when you get something from them doesnt cost you any money this as a great game.
Its a fun, albeit simple game. If youre looking for a game where you can pay to appreciate the developer instead of paying to progress, give this a chance.
We downloaded not expecting much. Once we figured out that you could only have one of each tower we have been playing all morning.
We have been playing for 3 days now. We are really enjoying the game play and the progression through the levels. However, we would love to have a few of the perks from the shop. 2x speed would be amazing and 2x gold would be amazing, but the price tags on these are extremely high. We would be willing to spend a few dollars to get the but 20+ in our opinion is outlandish. We also wish the game didnt pause when you went into the menu to upgrade or collect an achievement. Again, just small things that we think would make the game better and make the creator more money. Still really enjoy the game.
Great idle game, could use a little better offline earnings. Only issue we have had just happened where our Bosh Rush ability seemed to have been cut in half. Very annoying.
Its a good game all be it money grabby as most free Mobil games are. Those the packs you can buy for boosts basically could make this a full premium priced game ($60 ish) you can pick and choose what to buy and those are very impactful.
Solid game. If you like tower defense and gotcha/character building, this game mixes them well. A medium depth of char development, and a ton of progressive/roguelike style bonuses. The iap is a little over priced, but not necessary. Ads are optional, no forced ads or energy to attack system. Spend time playing and you will grow your towers.
Have enjoyed our experience mostly but the ads are kinda important to watch as they give you permanent bonuses and helpful boosts but when we click to watch the add it pops up to a faux AppStore screen with a link to the actual AppStore but no video to watch to earn any rewards.
Actually though, not too bad of a game. The currencies arent absurdly difficult to get, which makes paying once not feel like you throw yourself at the next power ceiling.
Game has potential. Let us put our units where ever we want. Static assignments arnt nearly as fun. Thats why balloons TD will always be above this game. Graphics could use a little smoothing. Overall still an OK game, but needs some love to be great.
Field tunners is still by far the best tower defense game of all time. This one is great with a good twist. Gatcha style games dont really do it for us though.
Not a very compelling game by itself, but the fact that the enemies' character models are from another game on the app store (Archero) made this feel just wrong to play.
Ive been enjoying the game but we opened the challenge map to play, our game crashed and then it registered as having done the daily map and now Ive lost our shot at the once a day challenge map which makes us unhappy :( please fix.
We keep complete challenges and not getting rewards. Some challenges are daily so this is really frustrating.
Great potty game, we let it run all night. Nice clicker, no involuntary ads. Play how you want.
If you enjoyed the classic Flash TD games, youll love this. There is an option to buy upgrades with real money, but it is far from necessary. You build up your towers quick enough that you have the satisfaction of winning, but not so quickly that its boring.
Just an amazing game fun to play.
This is a game we can just watch and mess around with for a few months and we even games like that.
Its a fun game with a neat mix of idler and tower defense, but gameplay is slow, and resetting due to a loss doesnt guarantee the next round youll get further. There are somethings for sale, but we feel they are significantly more expensive then other idle games. Id be more likely to spend with lower price points, but as is we have no plans to purchase anything else.
Drop rate on events are terrible. Left game running for two hours and only two drops.
Give it a shot if youre bored, you may just get sucked in to the deep complexities of this game that the developer is known for.
This game is a fun TD and is different than the other TD and Idle games we have played. The only thing we find a little frustrating with this game is how long it takes to accumulate gold. There just isnt many ways to speed up the gold collection process. Besides that this game is great though and we strongly recommend trying it.
Good time-waster. Great game to actively idle on, but it wont progress while not running (except for offline Gold accrual which is only used to level heroes, not upgrade skills, abilities, or buy new/Rank up heroes). Most boosts are bought with scrolls or gems which are earned regularly by beating chest monsters, and bosses. Run orc hordes and other events as often as possible, unless you are in the last stages of a progression run and focusing on not dying!!! Do not buy second starter pack. You will have easy access to all the Gods pretty soon, and the $35 is NOT WORTH IT. First starter pack is okayish and you can nab it if you like. All the boosts are worth every penny though. If youre gonna buy anything, buy all the boost packs in the store (in bundle). They significantly increase you speed of progression. Focus on ONLY leveling heroes to level 150 before you hit Mythic. Most heroes wont be uses past about progression stage 300/350. Enter EVERY PVP YOU CAN. Even the lower levels of success give rewards. Valuable boosts. Best skills to boost progress and act as safety-net are Power Aura – (gives big boost to dps) Freeze – (gives you a few seconds of free DPS) Frenzy – (attack rate=dps) Rain of Fire 2 (II). – Damages based on hero dps instead of a linear rate. Focus Attack Range and Attack Speed first, then go for other damage % boosts. Balance the type-specific damage boosts, but favor global boosts if you can. After a while, go for crit chance + crit damage. It will boost dps considerably in mid-game. Anyway! Enjoy this beauty.
Id have to say our favorite aspect of the game is how well you can advance in the game without spending any real cash. Obviously it makes it much easier but with some grinding, it can be accomplished. Our only complaint (apart from a few small bugs) is that all in-app purchases for unlocking the full game (like double gold, double experience, double game speed, etc.) is ridiculously expensive. While this game is fun, it is definitely not a $50+ game. And thats with the bundle deals. Id love to help support the devs and spend some cash, but we think they are asking for way too much. Lower your prices and youll see many more players spending cash. But like we said, its optional. Progress can still be made at a decent pace without in-app purchases. Just our 2 cents. Would still recommend this game to anyone who enjoys idle games.
No need to spend real money and its an amazing game.
Pretty fun game. Doesnt need constant network connectivity so we can play during our commute. And its the idle. What more could you ask for.
We really enjoy it – tons of play time.
Awesome game, perfect for lazy, bored days.
Fun game, just game speed is slow.
The idea behind the game is really fun. It keeps you wanting to play and acquire new heroes and level up. Unfortunately, it becomes extremely difficult very quickly and then offers $$ deals to make you better in the beginning. We looked at the leaderboard and theres 20,000 waves total in the game. Im at wave 80 and its almost impossible without spending money or waiting days and days to level up. Also, theres a very easy way to acquire heroes, you would spend scrolls that were easily obtained through various ways. As soon as you get to the higher waves you can unlock legendary heroes, but instead of scrolls you acquire them through spending gems. These are much much harder to obtain, and even then you only stand an 11% chance to summon a legendary hero. Great game. Just needs a few tweaks or else people will quit very quickly due to frustration.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.21
- Size: 200.66 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Swell Games LLC]()
Last updated: 25th October 2020 | Genre: Simulation, Adventure | Developer: Swell Games LLC