Heroes vs Hordes Reviews

When I joined up through about 2 weeks ago, you could mostly get everything through grinding. You may need to pay the $10/month or whatever for the Adventure Pass, but hey, devs gotta make money somewhere!

Then the Druid event started and it was an RNG-laden slog for a hero you couldn’t get without a lot of luck or paying a lot of money. Then the new weapons event started, and it was almost 2x as much of a grind as anything that came before it. Someone did the math, and it’d take roughly 8-10 hours of grinding every day of the event to get the weapons F2P — but, if you wanted to decrease the grind, well a 1.5x game speed boost was introduced for only $11 per 2 weeks!

I had no problem throwing money at the devs when I could get everything by grinding and wanted to support them. But it’s kinda messed up to slowly just start ramping up the costs and forcing people to pay if they want the new content. Nah. I’m going back to something that isn’t going in quite so predatory a direction.

This style of game is fun, but it, like all the copies that came before, it is a rip off of another game. When a devs decides to "take inspiration" from another game, it should be because they want to change something they saw as a flaw. What Heroes vs Hordes does is not that.

Like all the other copies, the user in bombarded with micro transactions, and apparently the developers think their game being ad free is worth $20 USD... when they receive less than a 0.01 USD per ad from the advertisers; the game would have to show you significantly more than two-thousand ads to make $20 USD, did I pay for no ads, no, of course not, I'm not an idiot.

There is nothing wrong with supporting a game that you like, but there is something wrong with a game prompting the user to spend $2-$20, potentially more, on every screen, and in my experience from just an hour, multiple times per screen; I believe the most Xs I had to tap to close requests for USD after going to new screen was four.

Gone are the days that app developers make a game that they would want to play, now the game is intended to pull as much money from the user as possible before the user realizes that the more they spend to progress, the more the game asks from them.

If you haven't installed it yet, don't bother, there's better copies out there.

I don’t usually leave reviews because it’s a game and yes they need to make money on it to make a living and more but for the spin the wheel thing is completely rigged how well well I spend the wheel six times and got 4 in a row the same prize 80 diamonds now I can see that if the game had made me get it two time maybe three time but even that the likelihood of that happened is literally less then 1% it’s actually 0.69% now tell me how is that possible to land on it 4x in a row it’s not the game it’s self is not well made In mechanics like there game that like money to how ever they actually let you get thing like Last war I have almost all the characters in the game now yes you might have to spend some money how ever you can get these characters with little effort and money I’m not saying give me a god tired class I’m saying let’s people get the playable characters and use them and then if they want to pay for upgrades then that’s fine but not letting people even unlock these characters is just ridiculous I refuse to pay 100’s or 1000’s of dollars to play with all the in game characters there is much better thing this game can make money on but these is really not a worthwhile game

Game play is slightly above moderate entertainment. Very convoluted with side games that are a bit overwhelming that for me takes way from what little fun this game actually is. And what I see that this game actually is (like every game in the market) is a cash grab. 100% pay to play. And I’m definitely bent out of shape because I did pay one time for no adds. I recently updated my phone and all data was gone I had to start over and once again have to pay to remove adds. No thank you app removed. I wouldn’t recommend. But I feel this way about all games on the market. All games on all the markets run on greed. I absolutely believe in compensation for the development of games but I’d pay 10 dollars one time just to just about all games but unfortunately developers have discovered people are dumb enough to pay over and over for advancement rather than effort and time.

It’s a fun game, nothing really unique about it that isn’t an exact copy of the 3000+ identical games. Feels like one of those games you pickup when your bored then after a week you don’t play anymore. I’d like to see a change in the rng department. You should have a few “abilities” that you can lock before you enter the game so you don’t see them wasting a level up option. Nothing to crazy just maybe 3 lockable options so that the game isn’t braindead easy, but it’ll help take all the frustration out of unlucky runs back to back. That would help with the longevity of the game keeping player base. It’s fun, and the adds aren’t shoved as deep down your throat as they are similar games. Some more customizations would be cool. Maybe like an extra attribute page to help customize your favorite hero, if you make a change or two that Iv suggested or something similar I could see this being a solid 4* game. I’d also like to see more gear tokens given out. Ither that or make them easier to merge, progression is what drives people to keep playing. If they don’t upgrade things steadily then it no longer provides motivation

It’s got ups and downs. It’s entertaining enough that it’s held my interest a lot longer than most mobile games. Despite the overpriced cash shop and clear disparity between spenders/non-spenders, it manages to be a pretty fun game.

The core gameplay is good, but it’s got some glaring issues that get more obvious and troublesome as you progress.
1. Unfair death: a lot of times, skill effects will obscure the screen and you can’t maneuver properly or avoid danger. Elites can one-shot you without ever seeing them approach. Other hazards will kill you because you can’t see them or a clear path out of them.
2. Too random level upgrades: it’s too likely that you won’t get your optimal skillset on any given run and get stuck with weapons/passives that aren’t beneficial to your character/strategy.
3. Holiday events are not fun/interesting/rewarding: consistent format of randomly spawning event currency on the map. This requires you to search, when it would be much more efficient/safe to camp and churn through kills. Then you spend the currency to spin a wheel and mostly get unneeded energy or insignificant amounts of coin.

Dev responsiveness seems to be hit and miss… mostly miss.

Playing with ads isn’t a good experience. The ad free purchase is overpriced… so you have to decide if you want to stick with the game.

They’d really benefit by addressing bad mechanics and having more realistic prices.

Meh.

Great game but starting to get into the pay to win aspects of the game in most of the events you’d have to pay money to insure you get certain characters, packages to make stuff easier are becoming a bigger thing and far to many hero’s coming out making it harder to get unlockables for older hero’s, it’s sucky to see this starting to happen as one of the players who played when the game first came out. I could proudly say most of my guild was from the start of the game unfortunately most of them have decided not to log on anymore due to how much pay to win has become part of it. Mind you that 90% of it can be done not paying but it’s become grind like a job type of thing… I don’t know about some of the other people playing but me and most of my guild agree that we can’t maintain the hours of play required to progress along with manage jobs and other important aspects of our irl. Please try and find ways to patch some of the aspects that kill the fun of this game. New hero’s get added so frequently can’t earn anything for the older ones really. Perhaps implement system that won’t allow you to get fragments for hero’s that aren’t earned already.

The f2p portion of the game is good, but eventually you will hit a wall as gold earned, crafting materials, and orbs doesn’t scale as well with the cost of upgrading skills, gear, and characters. Speaking of upgrading characters, they require orbs and eventually a lot of orbs to upgrade even 1 level. Currently I earn around 10-12 after playing a game that’s roughly 15 mins long. My characters lvl 35 and it costs 50 orbs for 1 level. The price points in this game are extremely high. More than most mobile games. $20 to remove adds, $20 for a monthly pass, and they just added another mode called adventure which has a different monthly pass. Either put both passes together for $20, or lower the cost to $10 each. Also, lower the add removal to $10.

I’m all for in app purchases to support devs, but make the price right and lower it. Otherwise myself, and a lot of other people won’t support you.

I only played a bit before giving up. Idk, maybe somewhere over an hour split up across a couple days. Like Archero, you walk around and attacks are automatic and generally target the nearest enemy.

However, it's in a big open space and, at least in the early levels, enemies are all melee, so positioning is much less important. Often moving vs. standing still makes very little difference.

Also, the choices you get as you level up during each run are much less interesting. Instead of combining things in interesting ways that leads to different gameplay, the choices during the run feel rather linear. Specifically, by choosing the same option five times (each being one level higher than the last, so that they have slightly different effects) plus the one option that morphs your chosen path, you get a very powerful morphed effect. This means really you're going to be trying to choose whatever you're getting closest to morphing. It's like it wants to be linear and doesn't understand what made Archero good.

In the end, at least in early levels, you're basically getting random power ups that are not mechanically interesting as you go through the level, and even if you're trying to use positioning you could just be standing still.

This game is fun. Gameplay holds your attention and you can progress and level up your characters.

That said though, you’ll quickly realize you’re spending more time watching ads to optimize your upgrades than you are playing the game. You can buy the $20 option to remove these (do this).

Downstream there is no balance been paying vs free players. There is a chasm in terms of what’s available, unlocking them with time will likely take years.

You might say- “But you don’t need to pay to play!”. You’re watching ads, you are the product, and you’re paying with your time.

Outside of the runs there is a forge so you can enhance and add new capabilities to the weapons. You can get these for free, but it is a glacial pace. VERY disappointed with how slow this is. I’ve not unlocked even one yet. You need 5 unlocks to use your character’s weapon ultimate. I only know the first unlock takes months of playing to maybe get or $50.

Special event characters are similar, if they’re in adventure mode you can get them for free but special events are pay to acquire.

This balance will not change, it’s strategically set up to drive big spenders. Giving more available for free the developer would jeopardize their base. That said though, they’re probably foregoing greater revenue because engagement likely falls off for these other players with time, and their time/spend goes with them.

I’ve been playing for a year, and I love everything EXCEPT Adventures. Adventures are multi-mission series that reward you with unique characters at the end. To start an Adventure you spend a Ticket. You get one ticket each day.

But because of frequent game crashes I constantly lose tickets. I haven’t gotten the unique character from an adventure in months because when I start a mission it costs a ticket, then the game crashes. They DO have a mechanic where if you start a regular mission and Immediately end it doesn’t cost you energy. If they had a mechanic where the Adventure Ticket is not deducted until the mission actually begins this would solve the problem.

I can’t give this gsme 5 stars until this problem is solved.

The biggest issue I have with the game is that it is almost impossible to progress past a certain point without a “pay to win” unlockable. Granted, it takes a while to get to that point, but I think it would be much more helpful and fair if characters and items could be unlocked through their shards. I wouldn’t even care if it were 500 shards to unlock a character (though that would seem extreme), it would be something. Unlocking characters through the adventure mode, on top of being nearly impossible to do in time, still leaves several characters that can’t be unlocked except through special wheels, or the discord giveaways (GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!). This game seems to be based off of “Archero”, and it should take a cue from that game an allow unlocks through shards. Other than that, it is incredibly entertaining.

This game is amazing and fun. The ability to purchase ad free is amazing. Game changing. The ability to grow and get stronger as you progress just makes it addictive and fun.
My only complaint is that I wish they would give us other ways of getting characters like the older ones let us buy with coins, especially now that there’s 32 characters and you can really only get 9 of them progressing through the game I understand not giving us event ones or newer ones unless we earn them or pay for them, but some of the old characters should be turned over to purchase by coins

it would only benefit the developer with us being able to get more characters we would dedicate more time to the game trying to build them up and those people who can’t wait would spend more unless you want to just play the game

This says a lot because I never review games. This one right here is worth mentioning. If you go the free route with no pay progression will come almost to a standstill around the dragon area. It’s with the twenty to remove adds and get extra daily rewards for just playing makes a big difference. I love the grind and all the unique characters. This is game is worth the twenty spent. If you decide to get the battle pass if you’re a frequent player it really pays off. People need to stop trying to get away with not paying for games that people took time and effort to make. I don’t spend money are hardly anything, but I’ll gladly support this game. Hopefully in the future you guys can add new heroes and abilities. We need another hero that you pay with guild points! Keep up the great work boys!

I can’t believe I haven’t reviewed this game and I’ve definitely put at least 100 hours into it. You get sucked in easily, hit a bit of a midway hump that does take a bit of grind. But I’m an “old” player and with consistent updates to adventure mode, and arena mode, that hump may not be an issue anymore.

I have made three purchases but the only one you really need to progress quickly is no ads. You get tons of daily login ad bonuses for free and free upgrade rerolls during runs. So worth the buy if you decide you like it like I have.

Give it shot! There are guilds and mine is just now starting to get more active with communication.

I downloaded Heroes Vs Hordes after I saw an ad for it on another mobile game. It’s really fun and I haven’t been able to set my phone down for days. I just purchased the Premium No Ads Forever bundle for $20, and while that does seem like a lot, the benefits of no ads in Heroes Vs Hordes are actually REALLY beneficial. I don’t have to watch an ad to revive (only the first time), reshuffle my power-ups, or even double my rewards at the end. I give a lot of reviews stars when asked, but I rarely write out my thoughts. This game deserves those thoughts spoken out loud. If you’re looking for a reason to play this game or play without ads, this is it. It’s such a wonderful experience. Kudos to the developer(s), I love your game and I can tell you worked hard on it. Thank you for all you do.

The new rune function is really cool with how you collect runes then use them to get points per character then you can level your characters star level up. But it’s making it very very hard to get new characters to level 60. My goal was to collect every character and get them to level 60 for the all characters bonus damage. But now it’s way to hard to rank up star levels on new characters so there isn’t a point in me buying all your characters. I love the game and spend money on it when it makes sense but I am not going to buy portal spins for a chance at 1 or 2 character cards to rank up star levels. And free to play players might as well just never progress further with this new system. Thank you for listening. I hope you can help.

Hello everyone, 🙏(high five) developer and his developer team, I’m having a blast in HeroesvsHordes everyday!

I will send a screenshots of purchases later thanks a lot for no ads option love it! 😍 🥰

HeroesvsHordes will be editors choice soon! Thanks a lot for the option for no ads(and everything with it)(No ads required to progress)(who ever buys this will be wanted in guild asap!)(only 20$ and will be become and get to the top in no time/sweat( exceptions apply!)(energy limitations rip to that but hey, energy means when you run out time for a break I’m right! That a smart way to motivating the essential way to take breaks!

What you guys think about this review I can’t wait for you guys to win the ( editors choice award! I bought 20$ no ad pack this is my top app now “ just because of this option it’s my favorite thing in any app that offers it I HUGE GAME Changer! HeroesvsHordes becomes insanely motivating/stimulating and instantly insanely addictive and enjoyable!/!

Can’t wait to hear back from you guys what you think.

As always take care and talk to you all soon,

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Vadim

As someone who always downloads ads games, I’m very happy I clicked on this one. This game offers so many different builds and hero’s with different skills and weapons it’s never ending. The community is great, every guild I’ve joined players have been friendly and glad to help. Same goes with the discord not to mention the free giveaways they do. The game is entirely possible to play and enjoy Free To Play(FTP) but I bought the no ads bundle from their online store and the pet expedition 1 pack. Totally worth it. Total, that’s like idk $30 but I can reshuffle for free , double rewards, free quests, and free res. On top of that I also have 2 expedition slots b/c of the pet pack 1. If you intend on playing this game for any extended period of time, the no ad pack is absolutely worth it. You get 300 gems and no ads for life if you get it from their webstore. Totally worth it.

So i just happened across this game through one of my many earn for playtime apps and i gotta say this is one of the most addicting games ive ever played on a mobile device. You level up pretty easily, you dont need to spend money to keep advancing like you do in a lot of other games. The graphics are great. Im just happy i found a game thats this much fun that i also get paid to play. Cant beat that! I sometimes have crashing issues but i think its because im using a really old phone lol overall 5 stars from me hands down!