Deck Hero mashup and dungeon mashup Loop Hero sold 500,000 copies in its first week, Four Quarters developers announced. Along with the celebration of this success, they revealed some of their plans to boost the loop with additional resources. They are planning some changes in quality of life to begin with, and bigger changes, like new classes in the future.
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Loop Hero explores the deepest parts of RPG history
The early days of computer games are dark at best, but the first RPG video game is generally accepted as being somewhere in the realm of Richard Garriott’s Akalabeth, Rogue and Tower Of Apshai. All three were based on the simple but compelling premise of going down to a dungeon to fight skeletons, vampires and all kinds of other monsters while searching for treasure. The limited technology of the time meant that none of them could replicate the narrative magic of Dungeons & Dragons – their closest inspiration – but their unique blend of statistics, loot and class-based gameplay helped capture the hearts of the first generation of PC games.
Today, RPGs are more focused on the impact of narrative choice, with games like Mass Effect praised for their spider web-like branching points. It is a trend pushed to the limit by Disco Elysium, which exchanges traditional combat for violent exchanges and insults. Still, the classic dungeon crawler lives through Dark Souls, Diablo and now a curious little battler named Loop Hero.
The strategic roguelike Loop Hero has already been launched
Loop Hero is a new world looping deck building RPG released today. It puts you in the shoes of a little adventurer, trapped in an infinite loop by an evil Lich. As you travel in infinite circles, you can collect items and change the world to try to escape. Over the past week or so, I have written about some new indie roguelikes (because I love them), but I think this is the most interesting of the group.