Hero Wars: Alliance

What Hero Wars: Alliance is and who it suits

The question for most readers is whether a role playing game built around assembling and pitting teams of heroes is the kind of game they want. Hero Wars: Alliance is set in the Dominion, after the Archdemon has won and several of the Guardians have turned to darkness. The developer describes it as an idle RPG that is played online.

The story is a frame for the play. Aurora has broken free of the Archdemon's power, and the listing says the player's task is to bring the other Guardians back. Most of the activity is about who is on your team and how they are built.

The listing aims the game at people who like battle games with tactical depth, or role playing games that reward leadership. If you enjoy working out a team and then testing it against someone else's, the game is built around that.

Building a hero team and developing skills

The roster has more than 80 Heroes, and each one belongs to one of six factions: Chaos, Eternity, Honor, Mystery, Nature and Progress. The developer says each faction has its own traits and style of play, so the faction mix shapes the team you can field.

You upgrade Heroes and learn their skills. The listing stresses finding combinations that are not obvious, and using enemy weaknesses to turn a fight. It also describes predicting enemy moves as part of the planning, which means the team you choose is partly a bet on what the other side will do.

The listing asks for a balanced team rather than a set of strong individuals. Team composition is the main lever across every mode that follows.

Player against player: the Arena and Legends Draft

The Battle Arena is the ranked player-versus-player mode. You fight duels against other players, climb a ranking, and can challenge players from around the world. The listing presents it as the place where the strongest teams are tested against each other.

Legends Draft is a separate PvP format. Instead of using your own roster, you pick from a team of random Heroes who are all fully levelled, so every player starts on the same footing. The first team to gain the upper hand wins the match. The listing describes the mode as a test of tactics in the moment, not of long-term progression.

Against the computer: the Tower and Adventures

The Tower is a multi-level dungeon with powerful bosses. Each victory gives you a buff that carries into the next battle, so progress through one run builds on itself. Reaching the top is what unlocks the legendary rewards the listing mentions.

Adventures are limited-time story chapters set in the fantasy world of the Dominion. They combine stories, battles against bosses and loot collection. Because they are limited-time, they appear and then leave, so they are not a permanent part of the game.

Guilds, Guild Wars and Titan Battles

You can create a guild or join one that already exists. Guilds take part in Guild Wars, the listing says, with the aim of reaching the top league and competing in the Clash of Worlds. Guild play is the main way the game becomes a shared activity rather than a solo one.

Titans are a separate layer of play. The listing names five kinds, Fire, Water, Earth, Air and Dark, which you summon and use in Titan Battles. Those battles are also tied to Guild Wars, so Titans are part of what a guild fights over, not only a single-player feature.