![]() ![]() The auto-battle system is like something out of an idle game, with the only interaction possible being the ability to change the hero's gear on-the-fly should you want or need to. This leads nicely into talking about combat, which will be pretty brief since you don't actually do anything. You'll quickly fall into your own patterns and rhythm as you fill out the map, until eventually the boss will appear when enough of the shattered world has been remembered. Perhaps you make sure you have roadside tiles in place anywhere a camp spawn would be especially annoying, or maybe you wait until you draw into a special Oblivion card (which simply nukes a single tile from existence) before letting them spawn. Once you've discovered effects such as this, the emphasis shifts onto mitigating and controlling them. The trade-off for that max HP boost is that every ten rock tiles placed, a goblin camp will spawn somewhere on the loop, pouring hordes of angry little critters into play, likely where you least want or expect them. But not all such combos are this useful, as you'll find out when you place your next rock tile after forming the peak. Naturally, this encourages you to clump most of these together to create a sprawling mountain range that capitalises on that bonus effect, and when you do, you'll see what will likely be your first combo effect - placing a 3x3 square of rock tiles sees them merge into a Mountain Peak, a jumbo version of the tile with an even stronger effect, in exchange for periodically having harpies fly down onto the trail. Rocks and mountains offer the hero slight boosts to maximum HP when placed, with the effect enhanced when placed adjacent to other rocky tiles. We'll leave most of these for you to discover as experimentation is all part of the fun, but there's an obvious early example that serves well to explain what we mean here. So far, so simple, but the real fun begins when you start to learn how tile effects can be combined. Landscape pieces, meanwhile, are typically environmental elements like hills, forests, and rocks, each with their own minor benefits that quickly grow pretty substantial given that with mundanity comes abundance. Roadside tiles serve more as modifiers, which can be anything from lanterns to help keep beasts at bay to an ancient battlefield that lets the hero reap the spoils of a war that may or may not have happened. The first lot actively alter what form the path takes when played on a square, changing it to a swampy trail, a graveyard footpath, a forest clearing, or whatever else, each offering resources usable to upgrade the base tile between runs, while also spitting out themed threats intermittently for our bold hero to face. These tiles come in three flavours, with minimum counts for each to make sure you have the tools to create a living loop - one set must be placed on the path, another directly beside it, while landscape and a few special sites must be placed away from the loop. It's more a mystical Carcassonne tile bag than a true deck, since you're able to draw into multiple copies at a time, just with rarer tiles less likely to hit your hand than the basic ones. To do this, you need to assemble a deck, of sorts. Loop Hero is a fascinating and truly captivating game where you effectively control the world, not the hero. ![]() In Loop Hero, "one more lap" is never enough wait, are vampires real? Or are folklore and superstition merging with fact and reality as we reshape this destroyed world? Who is to say, but one thing is for sure - this, all of this, is your doing. ![]() A small village offers a chance to take a breather amid the confusion mountains and fields pierce the fog in the distance, their normality lending comfort a creepy manor rises from the side of the trail, spewing forth sinister figures to join the fray on the endless path. With snowballing pace, more and more locations replace the loop's cold nothingness. The trees part to reveal the outline of another new sight, a cemetery that drags forth the dead from their slumber into whatever this accursed place is. Out of nowhere, a treeline comes into view around the bend - not just a welcome new landmark, but an opportunity to gather wood, should whatever is making those ghastly howls see fit to let anyone leave the woods with both the supplies and their life. The only company they find here is a never-ending procession of amorphous slime creatures, slipping in through the fractures of a world destroyed as remnants of what this strange place may once have been. Then, from the void, a path - winding, barren, endless, and with only a single tattered campsite to punctuate our mysterious hero's infinite trudge.
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