The Hero of Destiny was killed by the final boss
Sungrand · 2026 · Action, Adventure, RPG, Action RPG, Action-Adventure
PC
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About The Hero of Destiny was killed by the final boss
How many NPCs equal 1 Hero?In the land of Alta, The Hero of Destiny was fated to defeat a terrible Dark Wizard... but the Hero of Destiny was killed by the final boss. What now? Next to the final dungeon, in a sleepy village, 50 NPCs decide to take matters into their own hands. With zero combat experience, total lack of magic or battle ready weapons, and no idea what they are doing, these NPCs set out to try to defeat the Dark Wizard that defeated the Hero of Destiny. With sticks and stones, build a party of 8 characters to traverse the dangerous Northern Continent, defeat the dangerous creatures lurking the fetid halls of The Cursed Castle of The North, and defeat The Dark Wizard Saeziroth.BUT HOW will you be able to defeat the end-game portion of this adventure without any actual heroes? Each of the NPCs you can recruit into your party has a unique set of weapons and skills. While they may not have magic or powerful items, they have tools which can apply to very niche situations and get you through seamingly impossible challenges. Seemingly useless abilities may actually save your life during encounters with dangerous monsters!BUILD the ideal team of NPCs and make it through just the final dungeon of the game. Will you bring the Town Crier, who you can Shout to stun enemies in place, or the Priest, who can use Pray to instantly KO dangerous Ghosts? The Window Washer can use Wash Water to reduce enemy Defense, while the Accountant can use Audit to boost movement speed of the whole party.YOU WON'T FIND any Knights or Mages... all the Heroes have already been defeated and all that is left are the NPCs who normally run the Item Shops and Inn. Mix, match, and discover the strengths and weaknesses of each character, and find a way to survive the final dungeon to defeat the final boss. BE CAREFUL! If a party member is defeated in battle, they will die and no longer be playable! There is permadeath for party members. You have 50 characters at your disposal... but don't throw their lives away recklessly. Some of them may have specialized weapons or skills that will allow to survive and overcome certain challenges.WILL YOU discover how the Hero of Destiny could have possibly been beaten? Will you be able to defeat the Dark Wizard Saeziroth and save the land of Alta? Well, there aren't any heroes left, so you may as well try. GROWTH AND EQUIPMENTDespite there being a lack of proper weapons and armor in the village, there is still a variety of different kinds of equipment you can use, such as Farmer Tunic, which boosts your Power, or Padded Vest, which increases Defense. Visit the Armorer to level up your Equipment and increase its effectiveness. They may not be end-game, legendary equipment, but with enough effort, they just might be enough to keep you alive.Each character can use 2 weapons. Visit the Blacksmith to level up those weapons and increase their power.WEAPON TYPESThere are a few weapon types with interesting effects.Hoop: Temporarily slows an enemy's movement speed.Ribbon: Temporarily prevents an enemy from grabbing.Book: Temporarily prevents an enemy from using a special attack that hits a wide area.Bell: Temporarily prevents an enemy from launching projectile attacks.Catching Net: Normally, Heroes use Jaws type weapons to catch enemy projectiles. These NPCs don't have that kind of weapon, but a Catching Net can do the same thing. Some caught projectiles can be used as materials for upgrading weapons! EXTRASHD Mode: Play the game in high res, high defition.Easy Mode: Enemies have half health and deal half damage.Permadeath OFF: Your characters will return to the village after they are defeated.Couch Co-Op MultiplayerTeam up with 3 other adventurers on the same console and defeat monsters together! Each player requires their own controller.BadgesDefeat the final dungeon with certain specifications to earn badges!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This game is simple and lacking polish. It feels likes a side project that was done for fun. The UI is intrusive blocking the left 4th of the screen. The game world is too big, making the back tracking required for puzzle solving painful and the world can look fairly bland at times. That all being said, this game is charming, filled with little bits of humor in the dialogue and the combat is chaotic fun. If you think you would like a short, quirky, unpolished rpg, this game is might be for you. If you like checklists in your games it has a long list of badges that you can earn. That isn't me but that might be you.6 found this helpful
A surprising amount of depth packed into a simple concept. Battles are frantic requiring you to find the right combination of villagers. I'll get checking out the stats of all the characters but my favorite so far is definitely "man"!6 found this helpful
I like this game, sort of. There's a kernel of a good game in here, but it's in dire need of qol features. For some people, that's a dealbreaker, for others, they'll power through it. The premise of the game is in the title: The hero's dead, you need to be the hero. You can assemble a group of up to 8 people. When one character attacks, all of them attack. You can turn off permadeath (I did immediately). You can talk to anyone in town and choose to recruit them. Everyone has two skills that can't be changed and you need to BYOP (build your own party) of whatever you want. The game is pretty straightforward: My first run was, I think, about 3 hours, and some of that was spent goofing off. Around town you'll find pillars that increase the max hp of the people currently in your party, and temples have loot in them too. You'll need certain people to get into the temples (not spoiling that). My issues with this game are: When recruiting someone, you cannot see what their skills are. There is also no way to remove a single person from the group. You have to disband and then chat with everyone, again, to recruit them back. If you die in non-permadeath mode, you have to, again, recrui…5 found this helpful
Let me start off by saying that this was a game I was looking forward to before it even came out, as the concept itself was pitched very well by the developer. There's something very investing about someone who is clearly very familiar with the genre working on a JRPG style game, and even more so when it uses the conventions to create something very unique and its subversive deconstruction. This game stands shoulder to shoulder with Breath of Death VII in how it proves that beyond the laughs you can get out of pointing out the absurdity of game systems and writing conventions, that there can also be a very deep heart and understanding to it. Mechanically it's quite interesting, as it has a pretty great hook in that you can recruit somewhere in the realm of 50 different NPCs to make a max of an 8-man party, all of them with weapons and skills specific to them. These are just regular people, at the end of the day, and are definitely not the hero of legend that was going to smite the evil sorcerer. You have to get pretty creative in how you utilize these abilities, as the cooldown system makes you think strategically about how long you're willing to wait-out certain abilities in the h…2 found this helpful
A passionate indie project by a cool dev that has some cool surprisingly deep mechanics for RPG enjoyers.1 found this helpful
There's a high level of charm on display here in what can best be described as a Action RPG... Party Jumble? I don't even really know. Can't say I've ever quite played anything like this. From the references to the original hero AAAAA doing all the kinds of antisocial stuff you'd expect a min-maxing JRPG player to do (robbing houses, breeding the same animal dozens of times to get one specific color, etc.); to all the townsfolk having their own personalities, quirks, and abilities when they join your party; and plenty of self-aware humor (IE everyone sort of knows they're in a videogame but have no clue what a videogame is) it's honestly a feat how well everything is thought out, crafted, and blended together. The gameplay is simple enough to pick up and play (recruit townsfolk, smack enemies, right trigger to use special abilities, visit town to find some upgrades, sleep to restore health, rinse/repeat), and the game makes it sound more complicated than it actually is, but that's all just part of the self-aware nature of the story. There's levels of meta on display here that I was honestly not ready for. But what's even better is this is the kind of game you can pick up for five …
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