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Dear candidate, we are pleased to invite you to take up the position of manager of Hell. You will punish sinners by using our deck-building computer system to construct hellish towers capable of keeping the endless hordes of the underworld in check. Best of luck!
Heretic's Fork is a deckbuilding, tower defense and arcade game
developed by 9FingerGames
and published by Ravenage Games.
Released on September 13th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 9 languages: English, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Traditional Chinese and Russian.
It has received 3,591 reviews of which 3,080 were positive and 511 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.41€ on Gamivo.
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System requirements
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Windows
- OS: Microsoft 64bit Windows 10
- Processor: 64bit Intel compatible Dual Core CPU
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 4-compliant onboard graphics
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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A Roguelike core under the Tower-Defense surface: Successful ideas and slightly failed practices 7/10 Opening Since the Dota 2 community workshop released Dota Auto Battler in 2019, the game genre of Auto Battler has gradually become popular. In the second half of 2019, Teamfight Tactics and Hearthstone's Battlegrounds mode pushed the popularity of Auto Battler as a game type to a peak. Many Indie games have been using it as the main gameplay since then. Heretic's Fork, characterized by dark fantasy and avant-garde punk visual art, is a roguelike game that incorporates deck building and tower defense elements into the gameplay of auto battler. The novel, interesting and refreshing gameplay can make players addicted to it within a few hours of getting started. Unfortunately, this popularity came and went quickly. The game's levels and enemy designs were too monotonous and repetitive, and the strong balance between different structures was terrible, making it impossible to continue to bring freshness to players. Strength Integrating the three primary game mechanisms of tower defense, deck building, and auto battler is indeed a bold attempt, and in this regard, the initial impression left on players by Heretic's Fork is excellent. Players need to make operational decisions through deck drawing and card upgrades. The diverse character characteristics, numerous active skills, and unique card effects give the game multiple diverse gameplay styles. With metal rock and synthesizer electronic music as the themes, the sometimes passionate and sometimes slow music not only echoes the art style of the Heretic's Fork but also adds a lot of fun and immersion to this auto battler game. The game's main menu interface is designed to imitate a computer operating system, and there are many Easter eggs for players to discover. At 2x speed, the game lasts about half an hour for each run, which is a relatively suitable time. For the vast majority of players, within the first ten hours of playing the game, they will be attracted by its refreshing, creative and appealing gameplay and will be reluctant to leave. Weakness Unfortunately, as players spend more time playing the game, Heretic's Fork's multiple shortcomings gradually become apparent. The levels and enemies in the game are very similar in design. The types of maps and enemies are intensely single and fixed, the high difficulty only increases the enemy's spawn rate, health, movement speed, and resistance, which is the most boring numerical expansion. Among the only two structures in the game, garrison, and towers, the towers are too strong, and even among them, the unholy critical hit is the strongest and most brainless. Due to this imbalance design, players have very few strategy choices at high difficulty, With the maximum number of cards being more than 280, the inability to filter through streamlined card pools has instead affected the player's gaming experience. The game's target acquisition logic is highly rigid and often results in incredibly inefficient performance. For some structures such as Judgment and Sawblade, players cannot freely choose their locations likewise. From the perspective of data visualization and player experience optimization, Heretic's Fork has done a terrible job. In addition to the fact that upgrading card action often leads to banishing due to unintentionally overlap, the upgrade bonuses obtained are not intuitively displayed in the game through numbers, and players have to calculate them themselves. When selecting cards reward, you cannot view the upgrade items as well. When checking decks, there is a bug that prevents all cards from being fully displayed. Some scenes in the game also have frequent screen flickering, which does not give players a comfortable visual experience. Conclusion A qualified Roguelike should start from the most fundamental and gradually progress to the complex, unlocking all the content provided in the game through player exploration, and obtaining a different gaming experience in each playthrough under a highly randomized game mechanism. The design of Heretic's Fork makes the fun and essence of the game almost entirely concentrated in the first few hours of players' learning. Players' mid-to-late game experience is increasingly homogenized due to the lack of randomness. The avant-garde punk visual art cannot bring continuous visual stimulation to players in the game due to its pixelated style as well. Perhaps it is most appropriate to regard the game as a snackable Indie game, which is destined not to be a game that can bring lasting fun to players. Found my review valuable? [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43837750-Just-Game-Curator/] Follow my curator to get the latest review push! Your support is my greatest motivation!
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It is incredibly alright. Perfectly decent. Quite playable. The mechanics are engaging while you're learning them, and feel pretty alright to exploit when you've mastered them. The art is definitely average or better. But, like, you see the problem? Nothing about the game is truly spectacular. There's no moment where it really CLICKS and you love it. You get to the end of a run, and you're eager to push through Endless, except you're already pretty much maxed out in upgrading your defenses already, and then you make it to the 2-hour mark, and you realize you haven't DONE anything since you switched to Endless. It's all just treading water, it's all just doing the same thing. It does have more depth than the average puddle, but it does not have as much depth as the average small creek. Overall: 6/10. Worth playing, I guess. Maybe worth buying if you really really like random vaguely tower-defensey games.
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Highly addictive collectible card tower defense game dripping with its own unique style. 10 hours later, I beat the game with multiple characters and conquered endless mode. At this point I feel I have seen 99% of what this game has to offer and its time to move on. + Beautiful original artwork and style. + Most of the music tracks are awesome. I really love the Dark Industrial Techno tracks specifically. + The game flows perfectly, in my 10 hours with it I was constantly unlocking new funny "emails", characters, and cards. + The menu "Desktop Screen" that you control between game runs is a cool original concept. + Loads of unique weapons to unlock and use, most have beautiful visuals and are fun to watch. + The actual upgrade system and the base structured game mechanics are well thought out. - Some of the musical tracks are a bit much to listen to. A game run usually lasts 45 minutes, so listening to industrial metal for 45 minutes + the sound effects of the game can be annoying on the headphones and cause ear fatigue after awhile. - There are no boss fights, which the game is sorely missing. - Needs more enemy variety. - There is an abundant of useless cards. I would say during endgame, 80% of the cards received are useless. - There could have been more of a story to each of the playable characters. The playable characters do not have "Endings", when beating the game, you just get a results screen. - Endless mode is way too easy if you make the right cards, I could have gone forever, literally. - Could benefit from a save system, perhaps after every 10 levels, and make the entire game longer. More levels in general, larger variety of enemies, boss fights etc. Overall Score: 8 / 10 Good but with a few tweaks could have been better! Sequel?
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Incredible game, but beware! In the endless mode after 1:30:00 there's a constant risk of the game freezing, making the game to be permanently lost. (this just happened to me, and I found other people saying the same in different forums) It can be frustrating for sure, but still, the game is great. (I don't know why they thought mid-round saves as a power-up would be a good idea but okay.) They added a fix to this. Now entering the endless mode the game automatic saves so if it crashes there's a save point to go back to.
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I kind of lost interest after making it pretty far into endless. Really fun game though!!! I love the concept of combining a deck builder and a tower defense game. Definitely worth it if you love tower defense games.
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Heretic's Fork is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.
Heretic's Fork is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.75€ on Steam.
Heretic's Fork received 3,080 positive votes out of a total of 3,591 achieving a rating of 8.27.
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Heretic's Fork was developed by 9FingerGames and published by Ravenage Games.
Heretic's Fork is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Heretic's Fork is not playable on MacOS.
Heretic's Fork is not playable on Linux.
Heretic's Fork is a single-player game.
There are 4 DLCs available for Heretic's Fork. Explore additional content available for Heretic's Fork on Steam.
Heretic's Fork does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Heretic's Fork does not support Steam Remote Play.
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Developer
9FingerGames
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Ravenage Games
Release
13 Sep 2023
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