Iro Hero is an adventure developed by Artax Games, released 7 June 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux.
What Iro Hero is
Iro Hero is an adventure game developed by Artax Games and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Iro Hero’s story is set in the year 2306, a century after humans learned how to harness their energy to produce electricity. In the intervening years, nefarious enterprises have turned this gift into a curse, with humans reduced to little more than batteries. Following the death of his mother, a teenager named Iro learns that he may be the key to mankind’s freedom.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Iro Hero holds a critic score of 48 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 21 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Iro Hero launched on 7 June 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Quick answers
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