Heldric: The Legend of the Shoemaker
Do you enjoy hack-n-slash but longed for a bit more? Maybe you like tower defense games but find them a bit boring? Heldric is a unique mix of the same old styles of game with a few new twists. A hack-n-slash…
Heldric: The Legend of the Shoemaker is an indie developed by Astral Byte, released 4 March 2014 on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Heldric: The Legend of the Shoemaker is
Heldric: The Legend of the Shoemaker is an indie game developed by Astral Byte and released in 2014. It is available on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Do you enjoy hack-n-slash but longed for a bit more? Maybe you like tower defense games but find them a bit boring? Heldric is a unique mix of the same old styles of game with a few new twists. A hack-n-slash without endless level grinding. A tower defense game with more action. A game where you don't play as an epic hero, but as a humble shoemaker who must work together with his fellow villagers to defend their home. Build and upgrade the village quickly before the attack waves start. Each building you place adds unique abilities to not only the player's character, but your fellow villagers as well. You must choose your structures wisely, as there are only a limited amount of plots…
How it plays
Its themes are action and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Heldric: The Legend of the Shoemaker holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Heldric: The Legend of the Shoemaker launched on 4 March 2014, within three weeks of South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone and Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls.
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