Developer posts and news about this game.
Beating Chapter 4 now rolls the credits, the Abyss stops pretending it has a floor, and Heroes Suck now runs natively on Linux. Here's what's new. New Clearing Chapter 4 now rolls the credits. Finish its last stage and they play over the main menu art, title theme and all, with a
A small hotfix, shipped between dungeon shifts. New Added a one-time Steam review prompt after Chapter 2. Rout Kaelviir's second act and the next time you're back in town, we'll ask, kindly and just the once, whether you'd leave an honest review on Steam. It's just one dev runnin
I wanted to let you all know Heroes Suck is going live-service. The game as it stands today is just the beginning. First up, 1.1: endless challenge stages, a leaderboard where you can battle for the #1 spot, and exclusive Discord roles for whoever climbs it. That's the start. I'm
A window to read patch notes like this one, plus a couple of fixes worth knowing about. New Added a Patch Notes window to the main menu. Read up on past updates any time, and get a one-time notice the first time you launch after a new version drops, like a herald riding into town
A small balance and quality-of-life patch. Balance Reduced the Wall Crusher's cooldown from 8 seconds to 7 seconds , with its final upgrade tier rebalanced to match. Gameplay Hard Mode now unlocks after completing the Prologue. New players get a smoother introduction before takin
A small hotfix for a couple of Wall Crusher issues found right after launch. Bug fixes Fixed a Wall Crusher on the edge of the dungeon preventing stages from starting. A Wall Crusher pushing toward an outer row or column made the Battle button do nothing for both story and challe
It's finally here! It has been an arduous 3 years and 5 months of development . I am very happy to announce that Heroes Suck is available for purchase. I want to say: Thank you To everyone that has been with me throughout this process: whether you are someone that offered me advi
A quick update ahead of the September 15th launch. No new content this time, just some fixes and an audio pass. Bug fixes Fixed several town NPCs slowly drifting from their spot during long play sessions. Kaelviir, Remi, Hilda, Logan, and Mayor Perceval could inch away from where
Heroes Suck 1.0 is coming September 15th Thanks for playing the demo and the beta! The full game launches on Steam on September 15th at 11:00 AM ET . Chapters 3 and 4, the ending, and the rest of the campaign are all on the way. Your existing demo and beta saves carry over, so no
Two months of work since the last demo build. Most of it went into the save system, plus a round of performance work aimed at the later-game waves, preparing for release, and a handful of real balance changes. Your existing demo saves carry over. The beta is open The closed beta
Summary QoL patch: improvements, optimizations, and bug fixes. Improvements New and improved camera system. The pillars in the dungeon will no longer get in your view and will be occluded when they get in your way. Introduced a new font for text-heavy areas of the game to improve
After a bout with burnout - I'm back and at it. In this patch you can expect a whole visual overhaul (including optimizations), as well as an overhauled loot chest experience! I updated the game engine to utilize the latest that Unity has to offer, and also enabled DX12 by defaul
Today there was an announcement relating to a security flaw found in all games that use the Unity game engine. The issue has been patched, and developers have all had to update their games to patch the security flaw as well. This update doesn't include anything beyond the engine
Summary Big QoL patch, improvements, and bug fixes. All in preparation of the upcoming beta. Save file structure has been modified, and previous saves have been invalidated. I apologize for this inconvenience. Features Control remapping. Voice-over subtitles! These are a work in
Summary I thought the last update would be the last before beta, but plans may be changing slightly . I'll keep you informed about what's going on when I have plans finalized. There's still spots left for the beta, and if you sign up soon, you'll be guaranteed a spot! You can sig
Summary A lot of work has been put into this update. So much that I don't have patch notes, but I do have bullet points of new content. This is the last update before beta, so if you would like to get a spot in the beta test, please do sign up. There's still spots left, and if yo
Summary It's been a while! I've been making new content, and QoL changes. I figured it's time to update the demo. Here's the deal, though. I recently moved, things have been chaotic. I've also transitioned to a new source control, so I lost some history. As such, these patch note
Summary Optimizations and improvements! Physics should feel more smooth now, and the game should run faster. Features Fortitude: Heroes now have a fortitude value that must be depleted to knock them down. This value and fortitude damage each trap does will be displayed on the UI
Important Note If you have any Pendulum Axes placed down in a save, you should sell them and rebuild them. They received a major overhaul in this update. Summary The Pendulum Axe has been reworked. This trap was the least used trap - for a good reason. It wasn't reliable, and rar
Summary There were some critical issues with the feedback form, so a quick patch was necessary. I've also included some new UI changes. Changes Cutscene interface aesthetic overhaul. Experience bar UI element overhaul. Bug fixes Feedback form issues addressed. Fixed UI typos and