Hero Factory - Idle Tycoon is another idle game we found while scrolling the app store. It looked kind of fun, so we gave it a shot. The result? Mediocre at best. Try it if you are desperate - that is the whole verdict.
The tutorial sets the tone. Some guy who looks like he runs a kebab shop calls you “boss” every twenty seconds and keeps popping up with hints like you are five years old. Everything flashes. Everything blinks. At one point we thought the phone was about to explode. New menus unlock so fast that we could not tell what was new and what was already there, so eventually we just started tapping random stuff and hoping for the best.
Gems, slimes, and a wheel that plays for you
You collect gems. Tons of gems. What do you do with them? No clue - the game never tells you. No “hey, here’s what cool stuff gems unlock.” And the monsters those gems eventually lead to? Slimes and bears in three different colors. That is the creativity level. The units are not much better.
The skills, though - the skills are actually fun. That big robot smashing everything is genuinely solid. Credit where it is due.
Upgrading is where it gets silly. You collect shards to upgrade your units, except you do not choose what to upgrade. A spin-the-wheel moment decides for you: health or damage. Not that it matters much, because bosses just one-shot everything anyway.
We are not even going to talk about the paid stuff. If you are spending money on this game, don’t.
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Should you bother?
If your idle game backlog is empty and you need something to tap during a commute, Hero Factory will fill the time - the core loop works and the skill animations carry it further than expected. Everyone else can move along. There are better idle games, and we review them every week.
