HeroTail: Survivors
Max Ritters · 2026 · Action Roguelike, Bullet Hell, Roguelite, Auto Battler, PvE
PC
Mostly Positive76% · 25
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About HeroTail: Survivors
Lead a growing line of heroes through fast-paced roguelike runs inspired by Nimble Quest. You control your hero squad like a living snake, slashing through enemies, collecting coins, and chasing the top of the global leaderboard.Choose one hero to start your run. Each levelup you’ll recruit one of three new followers, adding them to your tail. Every hero fights automatically with unique attacks and powerful abilities. Mixing different heroes unlocks class set bonuses: Holy improves stuns, Tech spawns more powerups, Soldier increases damage, and many more.Defeat enemies across different themed biomes — Forest, Castle, Volcano and Ice — each filled with distinct foes and challenges. Between waves, pick one of three upgrades such as extra HP, movement speed, or bonus melee, ranged, or magic damage. Gather coins to purchase permanent upgrades that strengthen all future runs.Climb the leaderboard, experiment with hero synergies, and build the most unstoppable tail of champions you can imagine. One wrong move, and your whole line falls, so every decision and recruit matters.FEATURES• A lineup of 15 unique heroes, each with different stats, attacks, and abilities
• Dynamic enemies such as web-spinning spiders, fiery slimes leaving burning trails, hulking golems blocking your path, and skeleton archers striking back
• A variety of hero sets with multiple bonus tiers that reward clever team compositions
• Four distinct biomes — Forest, Castle, Volcano and Ice — each with its own atmosphere and enemy types
• Meta-progression through permanent upgrades and hero XP so every run feels stronger than the last
• Steam Leaderboard, Achievements, and Cloud Save support
Funded by:
• Dynamic enemies such as web-spinning spiders, fiery slimes leaving burning trails, hulking golems blocking your path, and skeleton archers striking back
• A variety of hero sets with multiple bonus tiers that reward clever team compositions
• Four distinct biomes — Forest, Castle, Volcano and Ice — each with its own atmosphere and enemy types
• Meta-progression through permanent upgrades and hero XP so every run feels stronger than the last
• Steam Leaderboard, Achievements, and Cloud Save support
Funded by:
DLC & expansions
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Ōk I'm going to recommend this purely because I genuinely believe in the devs potential to deliver other games. This one is a 5.1/10. Overall I'm more positive about it than negative for these reasons. 1. It's free. 2. Unlockable heroes are very easy and quick to obtain so you don't have to dump a lot of time into it. 3. The graphics are simple and very easy to look at. 4. Controls are quick to pick up. 5. Gameplay loop is enjoyable. Now the negative, and these are big negatives. 1. First and most importantly, putting the cleric behind a paid DLC is honestly disgusting. If you want to do a free game with optional DLC to support the dev that's fine, but putting the only truly required hero for high quality team compisition behind a day 1 DLC is bordering on scummy. We know you're better than this as we've seen your other games, I hope this was a silly oversight and not intentional because wow. 2. There's not a huge amount of content beyond beating the game once. There are challenges but they're all one offs and easy. 3. For some reason my PCs fan goes berserk when playing this game.4 found this helpful
HeroTail: Survivors pros: //modern day graphics with easy controls that moves from location A to B to C and so on cons: //extremely high CPU resource usage that might damage your system regardless of ingame settings //sucks extra notes: //dungeon fighting using heroes in a caterpillar formation which is slow and somewhat difficult2 found this helpful
A copy of nimble quest but does a poor job in execution and disappointingly did not build on it and offers nothing new. Trying to monetise too early, locking classes behind paywall. Better music needed. Game size is too big for what it offers. Not a mobile game but feels like one. Yet Nimble quest is much better. Underwhelming 2/10
A pleasant and challenging take on snake
Cool core mechanic and I like the different unlocks for the heroes.
fun game
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