Has-Been Heroes
"Has-Been Heroes is a challenging, rogue-like game of strategy and action, featuring a band of heroes on a quest to escort the King's twin princesses to the Princess Academy. The player controls three…
Has-Been Heroes is an adventure developed by Frozenbyte, released 27 March 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Has-Been Heroes is
Has-Been Heroes is an adventure game developed by Frozenbyte and released in 2017. It was published by GameTrust. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
"Has-Been Heroes is a challenging, rogue-like game of strategy and action, featuring a band of heroes on a quest to escort the King's twin princesses to the Princess Academy. The player controls three characters and must focus on combining hundreds of different spells to create devastating combo effects that can be used against enemies along the way. The rewarding, strategy game features irreverent humor, expanding world maps and increasing levels of difficulty. Players will stay focused and engaged in the gameplay as the quantity and randomness of spells and items allow for thousands of new experiences and will force the player to change their game style each time, while the specter of…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 26 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Has-Been Heroes holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 30% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 3 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3/i5/i7 1.8 GHz CPU dual-core. AMD 2.0 GHz dual-core., 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 260 / Radeon HD 4000 Series / Intel HD Graphics 4000. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
Has-Been Heroes launched on 27 March 2017, within three weeks of Mass Effect: Andromeda, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition and Zero Escape: The Nonary Games. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Mass Effect: Andromeda, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, Zero Escape: The Nonary Games.
Official trailer
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