Herakles and the Princess of Troy

A brutal platform game with an advanced speedrun system. Explore a story from Greek mythology as you rally an army to defy a tyrant. Hack and slash your way up the leaderboards and claim a world record!

Herakles is a 2D action adventure platform game that completely destroys traditional concepts. Speed and skill is far more important than the weapon you wield. You can run up walls, ceilings; there is no limit to your agility! Leap over your enemies and take them by surprise! In Herakles and the Princess of Troy, YOU have the high ground!

Key Features:

• Advanced Speedrun System
• Experience an epic 3000 year old story that will make you feel empowered after playing through
• Engage in battle against mighty bosses with unique weapons. Defeat them and you can wield them yourself!
• Explore a map full of adventure!
• Go on the hunt to find buffs! Each one will give you a powerful advantage.
• Uncover secrets as you wander the lands. If you see an animal, follow it! It'll lead you to something good!
• Amazing soundtrack leaving you immersed in the game
• 3 game modes: Demo, Classic and Campaign

Speedrun Mode:

• Race against your personal best
• 5 leaderboards to climb
• Automatically diverging routes. Go down a different path and the speedrun system will update to only compare to your runs that also went down that path
• Detailed timer information that displays: sum of best, best possible time, possible time save, segment best, segment PB, previous segment difference, live segment difference
• Main timer information that displays: main timer, segment names, PB cumulative time, difference between current cumulative time and PB cumulative time
• Speedrun results screen that compares your run to your personal best run, your best splits and much more.
• Speedrun Basics guide that explains what all of the numbers and terms mean in the speedrun mode and results screen (see community guides)
• Option to compare against your own times, the developer's times or the world record.
• Option to display buff outlines to show which route your PB went down (Campaign mode only)
• Streaming Guide that provides assets, such as webcam portrait and an input overlay (see community guides)
• 3 game modes to speedrun that vary in length. The shortest game mode is great for beginners.
• Robust anticheat system
• Attempts are pruned to keep the file size down to mere kilobytes
• Every attempt is stored but they are safe to delete as the game only needs your pruned attempts file
• Great game to get into speedrunning