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Hero Siege is a good rpg/hack'n'slash game, which you can play for several evenings and then delete, never to download again. If you play it like that, it is great and well worth its price during the sale: there are different mechanics, progressing through the [normal-difficulty] story is not that hard, getting decent loot and experience is easy too. But when it comes to mid or late game, this game is BAD and has several serious flaws.

Disclaimer: this is not a review about the gameplay itself (other guides describe it a lot), but more about the aspects related to playing the game for a long period of time or/and returning to it after several months/years.

I tried this game for the first time in 2015 (probably even before they added the Seasons system). At the time, I reached the highest character level and cleared a lot of dungeons to get the best loot (best == Satanic rarity and highest level). After several weeks I got an unusual bug which lowered the level of items I had equipped. Every time I logged in, the level of the items dropped until it became lvl1, rendering my top-tier items worthless.

Remembering the good things about the game, I redownloaded it in 2020. The first thing I noticed is that my inventory was wiped. Only my characters' levels, cosmetic items and some locations' "cleared" status remained. After asking around on official Discord, I learned that the game is prone to being wiped from time to time. They wiped the game at least thrice: complete wipe "when the game moved to 3.0" and the item stash (where you can store the loot across all your characters) wipe during Season changes (S8 to S9 and S10 to S11).

The problem with cheaters and exploiters in this game is unlike anywhere else I've seen. It has been there all these years, and the devs don't seem to come up with anything adequate to counter that.

The game's main currency are rubies, which are either farmed in end-game dungeons or bought with real money. You can use them to buy cosmetic items, upgrade end-game items and buy items from other players in the auction.

When I returned in 2020, I saw the collapse of the game's economy. Apparently, because of some exploit being possible, the prices in the auction house rose from the normal several thousands to hundreds of millions, effectively blocking everyone who didn't use the exploit from the auctions. The devs responded to this with 1) Adding a tax to the items you put on the auction 2) Banning everyone who accepted rubies after a certain amount earned for selling an item. I guess it is better than wiping the rubies, but I doubt it will help the economy (neither in the long nor the short run).

The cheaters in this game are widespread. It is common knowledge that the top player on the server's online players-by-power list is a cheater most of the time. You can easily google the hacks and see that they have been there since the 2014 up to the day I'm writing this review. Judging by the HS Official Discord server interactions and other reviews, there is an anti-cheat system, but it is known to ban non-cheaters, without affecting cheaters much. For the game that features scoreboards and Season rankings, it makes it demotivating for the non-cheater players (and greatly hinders their scoreboard ascent).

As I am a somewhat of a completionist by nature, I often check the game wikis to see what can I accomplish and find in the game I play. People like that usually create wikis and add information to them. What surprised me when I visited this game's official wiki, is that it was mostly empty and 80% of it was protected from editing by users without special rights. Apparently, it was privatised by the devs, and they only want to expand it themselves, occasionally giving editing rights to active people from the official Discord server. But seeing that they recently (several days before this review) created a view-only Google Spreadsheet and named it a Wiki, I doubt they plan to improve the actual wiki at all.

Yes, it can actually be an issue. It is good that the game was not abandoned by its creators: over the years, there were numerous patches, fixes and content additions. But those updates often rework important parts of the game. Leveling, abilities of characters and enemies, auctions, maps, loot system, economy were changed at some point. Some of them even more than once. It seems like the devs don't have a complete idea how should the game look/feel like. Which is strange for a game that has been released eight years ago and is not in Steam Greenlight.

It is a good game to spend several hours on, but if you spend more time on it (or return to it after some time), you will most likely be disappointed. If you're looking to invest time into an rpg/rogue-like game, this game shouldn't be your choice.