Bring a friend
A second player presses Start on another pad and drops straight in, with their own hero or as a guest. Online is on its way: accounts, three cloud hero slots and two-player zone servers already work.
Heroes of Idleville Reborn
The idle strip got up and walked off.
Heroes of Idleville is now an action RPG you play in real time, in eight directions. Swing, dodge, and unleash special moves as a gauge fills, the way Final Fantasy VII Remake fights. Every sprite comes from the original game's own models and palette.
A test build, about 160 MB. It plays online out of the box.
Click anywhere, or use the arrow keys: your hero walks there.Tap anywhere: your hero walks there.
Idleville
Eight heroes live here. Each one fights in three stances, with three combos apiece that take turns.
Try a stance:
Dewdrop Meadow
The geese have been told you're coming.
The Lazy Lagoon
Even the water can't be bothered.
Seven harder fights
The Dewdrop region runs from level 1 to 10 across seven areas. Seven points of interest wait in it, each a fight in waves that ends with a champion and a chest. The King of the Lily Pads is only reached by jumping pad to pad.
Turnip Fields
The scarecrows have unionised.
How a fight goes
- Swing to fill a gauge, then spend it on special moves, spells and gems.
- Every foe paints what it's about to hit in red, like the lane above. Step out, guard or dodge.
- Knock a foe off balance, launch it into the air and juggle it. Then look up its weak spots in the Bestiary.
The Root Throne
Something smug lives here.
"Kneel! Or don't."
The Smug Turnip King fights in three phases in a court walled in by hedges: rings to step into, waves to jump and a procession to bait into his own throne. Knock his crown askew, launch him, and he's Dethroned.
Take it home
Back at the gate, and everyone you beat came to wave you off.
Version 0.2.2 is a test build for Windows and Linux, about 160 MB, and it plays online out of the box. Expect rough edges and balance held together with string.
Then unpack it and run HeroesOfIdlevilleReborn.exe (Windows) or HeroesOfIdlevilleReborn.x86_64 (Linux). Checksums: Windows, Linux.