Hero Tale

Explore medieval fantasy island in idle RPG with rogue-like elements. Grind to gain experience, train your skills and fight more and more difficult enemies to unlock new maps and drop best loot. Strategize your growth when choosing your path on massive skill tree.

Hero Tale is a indie, idler and dungeon crawler game developed and published by Weird Johnny Studio.
Released on March 28th 2024 is available on Windows and MacOS in 18 languages: English, Polish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Spanish - Latin America, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Romanian, Turkish, Ukrainian and Hungarian.

It has received 310 reviews of which 217 were positive and 93 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.6 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Hero Tale into these genres:

Indie Idler Dungeon Crawler RPG Loot Strategy Exploration Rogue-lite Inventory Management Character Customization Replay Value Medieval Dark Fantasy Fantasy Magic Singleplayer 2D Story Rich Emotional Cartoony

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Requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10 and Windows 11
Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable
Storage: 700 MB available space

MacOS

OS: Mojave 10.14+
Processor: Apple Silicon, x64 architecture with SSE2
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Metal capable Intel and AMD GPUs
Storage: 700 MB available space

Reviews

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Sept. 2024

This does what i want a idle game to do. It is like "Progression Quest" but with pretty graphics and more interactability. I leave this on over night and on a second screen while i play other games, and from time to time i tinker with it, level up, clear out stash, then leave it again for hours. Personally i don't like idle games that force me to pay attention to it all the time, so this is just what i like! Ignore all the hate in the reviews.. there are way too few games like this.. and there are hundreds of clickers and other shit idle games already, so let this game do it''s thing! I have been playing this on mobile for years but i like it better on pc for a bunch of reasons i'm tpoo lazy to list here. Game is great! I don't have to do shit!

July 2024

TL;DR: This is a GREAT game, just not what you would normally expect from an idle game. ================ I LOVE this game. I appreciate the QUALITY that oozes in many small choices: graphics, humor, meaningful loot progression. Yet the review score is only around positive/mixed. What has gone wrong? I believe the biggest issue is that the game is in the wrong category. In my experience, this game is NOT really an idle game . While you *can* put the game in idle at certain places to grind the rare loots, a game mechanic discourages that -- a big spoiler: If you don't beat the boss in a run, the *RUN TIME* determines how much dark power you gain for the next run. And the game wasn't transparent about it until the end of my first run (which took me 100 hours). A few other reviews complained about the lack of offline progress, but given this core game mechanic I can understand why the developer chose not to put offline progress in. I would say that confirms my opinion that this game is not really an idle game. This game mechanic put me into a big dilemma. The "Run Timer" haunted me constantly since my second run. You no longer want to idle when grinding rare loot. You just want to get the rare loot then move on immediately, but the rare loot could take hours to get. I sat impatiently to wait for a rare loot to drop, only to sit and wait for the next rare drop. This turned me off so much that I had to quit. If the dev is reading this -- I believe this game would be directed to an audience that would appreciate the game much more if you (1) allow time warp, say in increments of 15 minutes, and (2) take away the "Idle" tag. This allows players to always play actively without taking away in my opinion the main strategic element of the game -- choosing where to idle, what gear to wear.

April 2024

I knew what I was getting into way before purchasing this game, I played this on mobile before, really having it running on an emulator most of the time but stopped playing when the news broke out that it would eventually find its way as a proper PC port on Steam. What can you expect? Glorified screen saver really, as far as idle games go, this one takes it to the next level, your inputs are very minimal and progress is super slow. Leveling up doesn't feel impactful level from level, you just see gradual slow improvements. You find the best place for your current power level to grind at and your inputs for the next XX hours will just be selling stuff from your full inventory bag and distributing skill points in your skill tree. That's about it, the rest is a mindless grind the game takes care of by itself. Which to me is not a bad thing, I love mindlessly grinding, even when it requires my full focus. This just takes that satisfaction of slowly pushing limits into an idle experience. What could be a turnoff for some is that there's 0 actual offline progress, if you close the game, you won't earn a single EXP point until you turn it back on and have the game actually running. I don't think the devs will budge on this, this was discussed all the time on their Discord already way back in the early days when this was just a mobile game. The art is really good, it's all hand drawn and there's some story sprinkled around here too to follow, just nothing to really write home about. Game is not going to provide you with a thrilling experience, it's the definition of a slow burn but if you like the idea of something running in the background as you're working on something else on your PC, this will be it. Don't go into it expecting much, if you plan to actively play something, even cookie clicker will provide you with more action, look at Idle Slayer instead where active play means a lot. This is really more of a set it and forget it kind of experience. And I like it a lot.

Feb. 2024

Honestly one of the best relaxing idle games. Sometimes i wanted for so long, a game that can just run while i do other things, you feel great progress with time.

Feb. 2024

Played this for about 2 weeks straight on my phone, finished all the current content, found the discord and wish listed it when I found it was here, too. The price is fair as well as the second fairy tier and it makes the grind of the game much easier. I recommend rushing armor then power on the skill tree. then get all the attack charge, then crit chance, and crit damage. then get the defense, movement and .5 mp regen. then the rest is up to you as you need it.

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4.99€

6.6

217

Online players

124

Developer

Weird Johnny Studio

Publisher

Weird Johnny Studio

Release 28 Mar 2024

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