Incremental Epic Hero 2

youa know this game's progression is cooked when even CHEATING doesn't get you anywhere fast...

EDIT: The dev responded and reversed the AI banner in less than 24 hrs, so it's obvious he cares. I understand AI is a powerful tool, but using it in art specially in the publicity art isn't a good look for the game. Even using it for coding will end up making the code a nightmare to update or even maintain. The game itself is pretty good, it's not just a carbon copy of the first one but isn't too different to have to learn some new complex mechanics. The alchemy is a lot less grueling now with just one bar and tab instead of having like 12. I really like the way to have multiple heroes at once, having them on % of their actual resource gain if they're not the active ones. The pets you capture now have a passive bonus and an active bonus you manually toggle to get some more automation. The monetization isn't as bad as some other comments make it seem, you obtain most of the premium currency through dailies and they aren't strictly necessary to progress (similar to games like NGU). After all this a free game, whether you want to speed up the progress with real money or not is up to you. I haven't played many idle games lately but I really enjoyed the first one and I see this one as…

Its pretty fun, you can spend as much time as you want even a little and just leave the game and than it keeps going for a bit and when you come back maybe some of your quests are done and I like that but there is still a lot to do so it keeps it interesting

very smooth gameplay and plenty of things to achieve

Most creative and varying incremental game. At most stages of the game it is not idle, though. Most real money purchases are to add extra automation once you reach specific stages. Most purchase items can be slowly earned by quick daily quests.

Seeing this game use AI breaks my heart. I started playing this game around 2022-2023 after playing the original game, IEH, on crazy games at school after finding a way to unblock my Chromebook. This led to me looking it up on steam when I got home and finding out about IEH2. I then fell in love with this game. The main thing that drew me towards this game was the art style, something about the cuteness and uniqueness of it was exactly what I needed in my life. This was further reinforced after finding out that all the artwork was made by his daughter which I found to be adorable. I am by no means against the use of AI in a supplementary way. Especially for this game due to the fact that I know that the actual use of AI is miniscule compared to the effort put into it and the amount of non AI artwork and code. But in this case, it feels like my very reason for playing this game was destroyed. But I'm not writing this review to try to steer people away from this game or badmouth the creator for using AI. To be honest, after seeing this game use AI in the banner, I spent most of my day deliberating whether I wanted to make a positive or a negative review and was leaning more towards m…