Shadow Heroes is an online game where players from around the world compete in epic battles with hundreds of units using weapons, magic and tactics. Hire new units and customize their load-outs with items you have collected. Combine items together to make them stronger and give yourself an edge in combat. Can you find the enemy’s weak spot and exploit it? Are you able to react accordingly to counter your opponent’s strategy?
In Shadow Heroes, you play through a series of battles that escalate quickly and vary depending on your choices. Based on the game mode, you will have different objectives. The game modes include:
- Assault – Standard game mode where the goal is to destroy the enemy base.
- Survival – Survive for a set amount of time while an opponent with superior income assaults your base.
- Commander – Eliminate the enemy commanders who inspire nearby units with their powerful aura abilities.
Shadow Heroes has two game modes: multiplayer and single player campaign. Within the single player campaign experience you will conquer various enemies throughout Hendrika. If you start to struggle in your conquest, you might find upgrades through the multiplayer world! Items you find in the multiplayer world can be brought back to the single player campaign, assisting in the destruction of your enemies.
Shadow Heroes has two types of items in it: Active and Passive. Passive items provide bonuses to your unit’s stats and in some occasions, abilities that the AI will use automatically. Using passive items is a great way to boost the overall effectiveness of your army without adding to your workload.
Active items on the other hand only provide bonuses when you select the unit with the item and activate it. These effects usually come with some added bonuses or additional control like being able to focus down individual targets. The down side is that they are a lot of extra work and are hard to use efficiently! If you are up for the challenge, they can really help turn the tides of a battle.
We kept looking at games that were thoroughly popular and found the common denominator to be “simple and fun”. The Real Time Strategy genre has great potential to reach the masses of gamers, but never truly bridged the gap to those who were not complete fans of this particular play style.
At Allied Games, we tried to bridge that gap. We wanted to make a game that everyone would be able to have fun playing regardless of skill level or game style. A lot of the time, you have to sacrifice things to make your game successful. That is one thing we did not want to do. The appeal has to be equal to everyone, whether you are a: casual gamer, hardcore gamer, competitive gamer, etc.
Unlike the traditional gameplay everyone is used to when hearing the term RTS, we are trying a different approach. Many non-RTS players get overwhelmed by the amount of choices that go into a simple match. Do they focus on gathering resources? Do they focus on building up their army? What about researching technology? These are core elements that regular RTS players are so used to that they no longer think about, it has become instinct to them. As such, they will always have the upper hand if they were to play against someone less versed in the genre. Our approach allows both of them to play on a leveled playing field.
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