Micro role-playing game
Loop Hero
We often find Management going around in circles, so when Evan Lahti introduced this latest “micro-RPG” they were left all in a spin!
SPECS
Minimum OS: Ubuntu 18.04+
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4500, AMD Athlon 64 3600+
Memory: 2GB
GPU: GeForce 7300 GT, Radeon X1300 Pro, VRAM 512MB
Recommended CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750, AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
GPU: GeForce 8600 GT, Radeon HD 4650, VRAM 1GB
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oop Hero is the rehydrated essence of a dozen misremembered, ancient games. From the moment the 16-colour title screen fades in alongside dramatic chiptunes, you feel like you’re playing some forgotten, VGA-era fantasy RPG, a game that still contains some of the mystery and difficulty of 1991, but gently modernised to 2021.
This isn’t nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake. Loop Hero presents a novel and deadsimple gameplay format that’s strangely engrossing, considering much of your time playing it is hands-off.
You send one of three hero classes (Warrior, Rogue, Necromancer) on repeated expeditions to an empty road sitting in an otherwise blank void. As your little hero auto-walks around this stone path, you populate the rest of the world yourself by playing cards like graveyards, battlefields, villages, meadows, or mountains one by one. These environment pieces in turn alter hero or enemy stats like attack speed and HP, and spawn corresponding enemies that you fight automatically as you pass through them: ghosts, ratwolves, bandits, packs of spiders.