[PC] Hero's Hour US$10.08 (~A$14.01, pre-Steam release sale -44% off; base price to go up after March 1st) @ itch.io

Road to V2.0 sale of Hero's Hour - Old-school strategy RPG with real-time battles (gameplay video)

The game will reach v2.0 on March 1st, introducing the Pillar faction, full translations and opening up to more platforms. The price will rise then - this sale is to keep the price at the normal rate until then.

Key points

• Since the previous (Aug 2021) sale of the game when it was in Early Access, the developer has constantly added content, skills/abilities, hero units, map editor, gameplay tweaks and more stuff from community feedback, etc.
• If you're on the fence on whether to buy this for ~A$14.01 BEFORE the announced price hike takes effect after March 1st 2022 release on Steam, download and try the v1.9.4 Free Demo and see if you like it enough to warrant a purchase
• Here's a review by RockPaperShotgun

Game description on itch.io

Hero's Hour is releasing on Steam on 1st of March 2022!

Hero's Hour is an accessible, yet-deep and content-rich Strategy Roleplaying Game. Take control of your hero, explore the world, build up your town, fight fast-paced battles, level up your hero and amass an army large enough to take out the opponents - before they take you out.

Turn Based + Real Time

While exploring the overworld and developing your town and army are both turn-based, giving you time to think and plan out your next moves, in battles your units will do the best to fight for themselves in real time - all hundreds of them. Cast spells and give attack orders to swing the tide of battle - or just sit back and watch as your might unfolds.

Procedural Generation

Hero's Hour brings impactful procedural generation to the strategy game formula, ensuring that every time you play, there will be new areas to explore and strange buildings to enhance your hero or army. Seek out obelisks to start you on small procedural quests that send you around the world. You won't even be able to use the same build order each time you play the same faction.

Features

• 10 factions with special mechanics, strengths and weaknesses
• 20 hero classes, with a special skill each
• 46 common hero skills
• 214 units - 134 without counting upgrades
• 70 unique unit abilities
• 145 artifacts
• 81 spells & abilities
• Dozens of impactful map buildings
• Local "hotseat" multiplayer
• Co-op with other players or even with the AI

There's a lot of stuff in this little game!

Being on the faster side compared to other turn based strategy games, you may even be able to finish the hotseat games that you start!

You can follow the development of the game on twitter.

Hero's Hour is coming to steam, and you can go and wish-list it now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1656780/Heros_Hour/. It won't go live there until more development is done - but wish-listing it will notify you of when it does, and will get more eyes on the game.

A lot of the graphics are by iknowkingrabbit.itch.io/ . Music and sound is currently being remastered by Lautaro Ariño, but there's some by me and Tundralaks left.

There's still bugs around, and if you manage to catch one, or one catches you, do get in contact at [email protected] with a description of the bug. I usually get these things fixed once brought to my attention within a day or two.

Join us at discord: https://discord.gg/9zpWsA24uk

Current version is v 1.9.4, which includes several reworks and fixes preparing for the upcoming v 2.0 launch. Translations have been temporarily turned off in preparation for more and better translations coming March 1st together with v 2.0 landing on steam.

The game will rise in price as v 2.0 releases. The current sale is so that the game will keep its current price until v 2.0 is officially out.