Yolk Heroes: A Long Tamago

8/10: This game gives total Tamagotchi vibes~! you literally start by taking care of an egg, then train it up for adventures where you pick a class, buy gear, and go fight bosses. It’s one of those ‘open it, do your tasks, close it’ types of games. Kind of an idler… but not fully. You check in, see if your character survives the fight, and if it’s hungry, you feed it. It’s not the kind of game you sit and grind for hours. It's more like a fun, low maintenance check in game that slowly hooks you.

If you think this game looks cute and you want to play it, you should. That being said, I think that the game fails to deliver as a 'tamagotchi rpg' as well as a proper idle game, I'm afraid. The various 'wellness' bars will only deplete as your little guy takes actions, meaning that you are never in any realistic danger of them fully depleting. The rpg system boils down to just pumping stats and buying equipment (read: pumping stats), this often results in you being in a constant state of feeling either overpowered or underpowered and nothing in between. For some bizarre reason, the game will refuse to let you put any training segments in your queue, and also won't allow queuing any actions while adventuring, making it very cumbersome as an idle experience. The active elements are also very bare bones and dull, which is felt extra hard while adventuring, because it takes so long to go through the post beginner adventures. So yeah, play this for the vibes if you want, but mechanically I really don't see who this was made for.

A cute little throwback to virtual pets and hero-raising RPGs like Princess Maker. It's fairly simplistic, but makes for a great "background game" while you're focused on something else. Full video review: https://youtu.be/MaeUuSjF2FA

Yolk Heroes: A Long Tamago takes the familiar concept of raising a digital pet and gives it a light fantasy RPG purpose, resulting in an unusual mixture of virtual-pet management, idle progression, character development, and adventure. Instead of controlling a traditional hero directly through every battle and dungeon, the player assumes the role of a Guardian Spirit tasked with raising an elf who can eventually stand against the forces of the Dark Lord. Developed by 14 Hours Productions and published by 14 Hours Productions and Astrolabe Games, the game builds its identity around the simple pleasure of watching a vulnerable creature gradually become a capable adventurer. The experience begins with an egg, immediately establishing the Tamagotchi-inspired foundation suggested by the title. Once the hero emerges, caring for their everyday needs becomes an important part of progression. Feeding, cleaning, resting, and maintaining the character's general condition are intertwined with training and development. These routines give the hero a sense of being a small companion rather than simply another RPG character represented by statistics. Neglecting basic needs can interfere with pro…

very fun semi idle game!!

If you have nostalgia for NES games and tamagotchi, you got to try this. Also, they included a blahaj color palette 🩵🩷🤍