Idle Heroes, part 1

I was looking for old apps on my tablet that I could delete to make room to test new things, and saw the old icon for Idle Heroes.  I played that about 2 years ago and have tapped on it a few times since then.  It's actually a gorgeous game just chock full of activities, screen after screen of things to do.

Here is the home page where you access all the different areas and stages of the game:

At its core, it's another game where you build a team of heroes that can level up and get new equipment, and of course the equipment can also level up.  Initially, you click the Campaign island and your heroes fight their way through the levels, unlocking major features on the home world page as you go.  I didn't write them all down, but right now I have to unlock Campaign stage 13-8 to unlock the Auction House.  These are well spaced out so there is always something to work towards and look forward to.

Here is my page of heroes:

And here's my top hero, showing the stats screen and the equipment screen.

You can use the Summon Circle to summon heroes using tokens: Basic Summons, Heroic Summons and Friendship Summons.  Or you can find shards (they look like jigsaw puzzle pieces) which can be used to summon heroes right in your heroes page, click the puzzle piece icon to see if you have enough of any piece to use it.

Here is the main Campaign screen:

I almost forgot there was any kind of idle game action here, but technically your heroes are stuck on this page auto-battling for all eternity, giving you coins, power up materials and loot items whenever you log back in.  Here is the actual battle screen:

I find it a bit comical that the good guys and bad guys take turns zipping across to their opponents and attacking, but there is such a range of abilities that after some leveling up, expect fire raining down and lightning bolts and auto healing.

The game breaks away from the usual tired realms of power (fire, earth, water, life, death, etc) with these: forest, fortress, transcendence,  abyss, shadow, dark, light.  The characters within each realm are a colorful variety.  I find all the art to be crisp and perky and slightly comical.  Kudos to the designers for finding enough names for the hundreds and hundreds of items and powers and in-game tokens.

Of course there are gifts for checking in, and achievements and quests to follow-up on.  Once per day you can click the plus next to the coin bar at the top and use the Hand of Midas for some free coins.  I'm level 83 right now and it's giving me 489,600 this time around ... and there's a quest for doing that, so plus two wishing coins for the Wishing Fountain.  You can also spend in-game gems (diamonds) for coins, at this level it's 50 gems for 816,000 coins.  Which seems like a lot, but there must be a hundred things to spend your coins and tokens on.

A lot has been added to the game in the last year.  There's so much to do and talk about that I will continue this in future parts.  I just got an in-game message giving me two more event tokens: Chocolate Bread and Ordinary Dice.  If you stay away for a few months, it's funny trying to figure out what all these weird bits do.