Good game. Nothing special, entertaining for these 30 minutes and then there's nothing more to it, and when you get to the point where you have two decently upgraded heroes you're basically done, so I think there could have been more variety and depth.
Reviews for "Hero Agency"
Was kind of challenging at first but after a few minutes of gaming it turned out to be simple and easy, nice work.
I thought this was going to be an idle game, which is basically the world's $#!77!est slot machine; how wrong I was!
I would have liked a little bit more of an analytical approach to this sort of game; currently all that it says is "Skill increases your hero's questing speed, Heart makes him tougher, Wisdom gives him more EXP for completing quests and Looting makes him earn more gold!" What it doesn't say is /by how much,/ so I can't really formulate a concrete strategy on how to make the quickest profit (I just guessed on looting first, skill second and did pretty well, I think...)
Another flaw is the high score system, which is easily cheated by sacking heroes at the end of level 98 and re-hiring them continually. Time-to-retirement would have been a better metric, IMO.
Also, the tutorial windows everywhere are really annoying and I just clicked through them without reading and figured everything out on my own. You could just make the game a wee bit more intuitive, instead. For example, instead of red light/green light for stopping/starting individual heroes, you could have a red button that says "stop" and a green button that says "go" or "quest." It would also be nice for it to be clearer as to which bar is experience points and which is quest progress. You can figure it out after a while by how they move, but it would still be nicer to have them be defined.
Chaz responds:
Thanks for the feedback, I'll bare it in mind for any future updates/editions.
i like it only problem its way too short also in one of the journal things theres a typo
"i wonder what a dog what say if it could talk"
Chaz responds:
Thanks, good spot!
I messed up several times in the beginning with hiring 2 heroes at once. Then I tried a new method: I hire only one hero, buy Lvl1 for Health, Skills, Wisdom and Lvl2 for Gold. This way the hero earns enough gold to buy HP potions permanently and even save up some money. Now I can slowly level up all the other skills to Lvl2 at least - if possilbe Lvl 3 - and hire further heroes.