Greetings heroes!
Today we'll be taking a deeper dive into what Evercore Heroes looks like as a Team-based Action Roguelite! Grab your bags and let’s go on an adventure across Lumerea!
Here's a visual image showcasing a high level summary of the game flow you will experience in Evercore Heroes:
*As always, the game is still under development meaning that things featured in this news blog might change over time based on development and player feedback.
Before you start a run you always start in Castle Everae - our player hub. This is a single player environment where you can:
- Experience and engage with newly unlocked story elements
- Unlock new heroes & check out all shards you've found so far (and which you haven't yet!)
- Upgrade, unlock and select power upgrades for your heroes
- Visit the cooking station to use newly discovered ingredients to cook recipes for during your runs
- Collect new looks for your heroes - so you can adventure in style
- Fight practice dummies to theorycraft new builds
We'll do a deeper dive into some of these Hub elements in a future content blog.
Once you are done preparing and are ready for your next mission, it's time to pick your favourite Sentinel (this is what we call our heroes). We have a unique and diverse roster of sentinels available and will be adding more over time for you to experiment with and theorycraft. All our sentinels are currently categorised into three primary core categories: tank, support and damage dealers.
While some heroes really like to stick to their core role and will play more straight forward, others will be more complex and will want to dip their toes and expand into the other roles based on what hero upgrades you select and what rewards you go for during a run. Experiment with your team, redefine roles (or create complete new ones) and form completely new team synergies not yet seen before!
Once you and your friends have their sentinels locked in you'll be transported to a selected mission. Every mission run is replayable and will take place in one of the regions of the world of Lumerea. Every region will have new shards to collect, new enemy types to face and a different end-game encounter for you to overcome.
The run will exist out of a number of dynamic randomised islands (rooms) for you to get through that will get more challenging the further you get into the mission. If you make it through till the end you will be faced with the end game encounter of the selected mission, which for example could be a fierce boss fight!
Every mission run will offer different types of randomised islands that all will have their own type of challenges and rewards. You might be tasked to kill all enemies on the island, survive for an amount of time or face a challenging objective like a big laser tower you have to bring down among many others! The rewards are quite diverse as well, and could be a powerful shard, an upgrade to your abilities or stats, more gold to spend or something completely different!
When beating an island and claiming your reward, you will be faced with another decision on what island to tackle next with your team. Do you require more immediate power or do you want to invest in the future with the risk you might never get this far? Do you want to recover to push further to gain rewards or do you want to chase a very specific build instead? It will be up to you and your team to find a way through and create a build that can overcome the mission challenge!
Whether you made it to the end game encounter and achieved glorious victory or fell halfway heroically trying, the run will end. The run is over, however, it's time to collect some loot! You will gain rewards based on how far you got during the game and what actions you took. Once back in Castle Everae you will be able to use these rewards to unlock new content for future runs. We've now made a full circle and are back at step 1. Are you ready to go again!?
We'd love to do more deep dives like these and have more lined up for you. Let us know via the Steam forums what you think and if there’s anything you’d love us to cover.
We'll see you again next time!
~ Evercore Heroes team