Horde Hero press kit

Description

Start with your fists, end with a hurricane. Fight through thousands of cute monsters, pick a new power every level and evolve 17 spells into screen-filling ultimates. Trade runes and dark pacts in a town mid-battle, gear up between runs and face bosses with cinematic entrances.

Start with your fists. End with a hurricane.

Horde Hero is a fast, colourful bullet heaven. You dodge through the horde while your hero swings and casts. Every level-up adds a new power, and by the end of a run you have company: tornadoes, black holes and meteor storms that fill the screen. Every gem pulls you toward the next level-up and the next impossible choice.

Build something new every run

• 17 attacks and spells, each with an evolution: Tornado into Hurricane, Black Hole into Singularity, Meteor Rain into Armageddon, Spirit Wolves into Fenrir's Pack, plus laser prisms, chain whips, saw blades, blade waves and more
• 11 passive powers: pair a maxed spell with its partner power and open a chest to unleash its evolved form
• Rarity cards: every level-up hides a lucky card, and a pity timer guarantees an Epic
• Limit Breaks push a finished build past its limits

A town in the middle of the battlefield

Fight your way to a walled town that monsters can't enter, and spend your run's gold on choices that change the run:

• Rune Smith: 16 runes with a gain and a price, like +30% damage for -20% max health. Three sockets per run.
• Enchanter: enchant one of your powers with fire, frost, lightning, an extra projectile and more
• Necromancer's Altar: seal a pact with Morwen. Sacrifice health, gold or even a power, and get something very different back
• Alchemist potions and the Wishing Well mystery box

Then head back out, while the horde keeps growing.

Gear you keep

• 42 items in 4 slots: weapon, head, chest and a charm. You start with bare fists; your first weapon, an Iron Longsword, comes after the first run
• Open Viking, Arcane and Royal chests between runs. The odds and the pity counter are always shown.
• Level and merge your gear from Common to Mythic. Your hero carries it into every run.
• Every hero has a talent tree of their own, paid in Valor: swear Oaths, choose between game-changing keystones, master your path and wear a Crown

Bosses worth the wait

• 7 bosses with their own in-engine entrance cinematics: King Slime, the Ogre Warlord, the Sand Colossus, the Frost Wyrm, the Infernal Titan, the Hollow King and the Abyss Lich, plus mini-bosses that crash in mid-run
• The Colosseum: open a Rift and duel Gorath, the Pit Champion, for an Epic jackpot
• 60+ monster types: chargers, casters, bombers, summoners, doom circles and elite curses keep you moving

Heroes

Play as Sir Spark, the knight, or Luna, the mage, each with a signature ability. More heroes are coming soon.

Always something to chase

• 6 lands, 30 stages with star ratings on a painted world map: from the Whispering Meadow to the Void Citadel
• Endless Abyss with quests and World Levels that ramp forever
• Daily Challenge: one seeded run a day with its own modifiers and medals
• A Quest Journal: Sir Spark's story across all 6 lands, as he hunts the six shards of the Crown of Ages, plus daily and weekly quests and a weekly chest track
• Achievements

Made for PC

• Full controller support, or keyboard and mouse
• Auto attack on or off, your choice
• Borderless, fullscreen or windowed at any resolution, VSync, frame caps up to Unlimited and UI scale
• Accessibility: screen-shake slider, reduce flashing, reduce motion, colour-safe danger zones, large text
• No ads, no microtransactions. Buy once, own everything. Everything in the game is earned by playing.