Developer posts and news about this game.
0.19.0.0 The last major piece of planned content is done! That isn't to say Heroes For Hire is feature complete, I'm still planning a couple more things, but for now, that's everything! As an endgame goal, you can now craft divine furniture to maximize your guild hall's stats! Al
0.18.6.0 Additions: - New Cursed Relic: Money Bag. Gives some money on hit if a hero is holding it. Replaces the old prisoner set. - Added a tip that gives a template that creates a bunch of helpful pins. You can use this to organize your workspace. - New Service: Leprechaun. Mak
0.18.5.0 Additions: - The "Automatic" compact screen style has been replaced with "Mixed" which combines the two options. (It didn't do anything before.) Sorry, as the "Automatic" setting was default before, old save files are also defaulted to this unless it had been changed in
0.18.4.0 Additions: - New encounter added to the void. Void Blip! Exceptionally weak, and can drop antimatter. Other Changes: - After finishing the final boss, boss encounters are now locked to level 5. Normal raids that aren't cave or slime are now locked to level 4 as well. - Y
0.18.3.0 Additions: - You can now select multiple popups at once by clicking and dragging on the desktop! Press Ctrl Q to close the popups and Ctrl C to use the popup. This functionality has been expanded to raid start, training and gathering popups as well. (Previously only craf
0.18.2.0 Additions: - New Mission! Choosy Corners. Hero equipment is now upgraded by completing quests, and cannot be changed. Complete the final quest to win. Other Changes: - Get The Ball Rolling is now Ventura's List, and is functionally identical. - When quests are finished,
0.18.1.0 Additions: - It is now possible to pin the dungeon, hero and shop list popups. Other Changes: - Tweaked how quest progress works slightly, to be easier to follow along. - Dungeons with wood/ore nodes (Cave, Pirate, Forest) now function slightly different so that nodes of
As promised in the last patch, the rest of the story and quests are here. Sorry, these were not supposed to be available to demo players, so that has been removed. This may change in the future, it's just that the Bull Shark is a paid boss, and that happens to be the first boss..
0.17.4.0 Additions: - A "quest" system has been added for bosses! Right now, quests go up to Emperor Gladius, I had to get this patch out before I could get the rest done, they'll be coming in the next patch. - "Get The Ball Rolling" has been converted into a quest, though it wor
0.17.3.0 Additions: - Added a visual indicator for hero mood on the portrait. - Hovering over enemy healthbars on Raid popups map shows their exact health. Other Changes: - Fixed being able to use the craft dropdown to check every recipe that creates the item dropped on the resul
0.17.2.0 Additions: - Tweaked the Templates popup, creating and adding templates is now much smoother and nicer. - You can now save templates as well, with some default templates included to make it easier. Balance: - Tweaked enemy exp rates, now starting much higher and ramping
0.17.1.0 Other Changes: - Dragging to select on the Guild Hall bulk selection tool now works if the cursor isn't in the pop up. - Bodyguards and Skeletal Warriors no longer need to take a break after raiding long raids. (This was never intended.) - Start raid popups no longer sav
On April 27th, Heroes For Hire will be joining the InterfaceX sale, keep an eye out for that! Heroes For Hire is nearing content completion! This patch introduces the final boss, and with it, an actual way to beat the game! This is only part 1 of the final boss as I wanted to inc
0.16.5.0 Additions: - Added some more information to some less helpful hover tooltips. Other Changes: - Small tutorials are now easier to read as the text is now spaced out better. - The in game background has been tweaked to be more consistent with the rest of the game and brand
0.16.4.0 Additions: - Added a new visual indicator for the end of the day, to be more obvious. - New holiday - Coin Rain, spawns some coins that can be picked up in dungeons. - Negative alerts are now colour coded and marked in the alerts popup. Other Changes: - Cleaned up the cl
0.16.3.0 Other Changes: - Double clicking sharpening stones, equipment braces and mana crystals now acts as if the item was just dragged and dropped on the last active hero info popup. - Changed how dragging things out of crafting popups works slightly. - Some oddities with item
0.16.2.0 Additions: - New skills! - Intermediate: Sacrifice: When used, the hero curses a target, and takes some damage at the same time. - Intermediate: Last Stand: Gives the hero a shield that causes the next fatal attack to leave the hero with a small amount of health instead.
0.16.1.0 Additions: - New Cursed Relic: Monkey Paw! Heroes carrying start the battle with a large chunk of health missing, but also with the blessed status. - Three new items! Bear Traps, made with an ingot and a plank, deals damage and causes targets in raids to bleed. Other Cha
Heroes For Hire's main campaign is almost done! This update brings the two key holders to the game, the Crystal Queen found in the Cloud Kingdom and the Ember Lord found in Ember's Maw! Found at Tier 4, these bosses drop materials used to craft the highest level gear in the game!
0.15.7.0 Additions: - New cursed relic! Bloody Stake. Deals 100% critical damage to enemies with less than 20% health. Other Changes: - Raids now speed the game up properly when finished. (Wasn't really a bug, was just not set up well.) - Added a visual indicator for when every p