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Reality Pump / Nov 1, 2013 / Action, Casual
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CompareHELI HEROES updates the old-school "shoot'em up" arcade machine games to new dimensions on today's PCs. You command an AH-64 Apache Longbow or a Russian Hokum helicopter. The goal is to fly through various levels and carry out the mission objectives.
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62% positive, 287 reviews
Heli Heroes is a game I remember playing when I was a kid, so coming back to it after all these years was a great nostalgic experience. It brought back a lot of memories, and I was surprised by how much I still enjoyed the gameplay. For an older game, it still holds up as a fun and straightforward arcade-style shooter. Flying around, completing missions and taking out enemies is simple but...
0 found this helpful, 2026-09-04
Rating: 8.2/10 Heli Heroes is a fast-paced arcade-style action game that puts players in control of a combat helicopter and focuses heavily on shooting, movement, and surviving waves of enemy forces. The gameplay is straightforward, with the main objective being to destroy opposing units while avoiding incoming attacks and managing the battlefield. Its simple structure makes it easy to understand, while the constant...
0 found this helpful, 2026-08-12
Definitely not a great game, but it has some charm to it and does not overstay its welcome and, contrary to what Steam and the pcwiki page would tell you, this game is fully playable with a controller (at least with the "Xbox one" controller).
0 found this helpful, 2026-07-04
Got in a helicopter for a chill flight turned out it was a flying gun with a joystick now I shoot enemies and yell like at a soccer match even my cat claps from the windowsill.
2 found this helpful, 2026-04-19
A fun and accessible experience that I can easily recommend to anyone looking for something enjoyable to play.
0 found this helpful, 2026-06-06
Those older games are always hit or miss. When launching you always prepare for controls to not work as expected, in this case press right shift to shoot and maneuver with arrows *sigh*. Plays like a top down shooter. Gameplay was probably ok back in the day, now it's clunky. Some training missions must be completed first in order to get into normal missions. What else to say? Steer away and play something at least...
5 found this helpful, 2026-06-01
This is not at all what I was expecting. I thought it would be more like Desert Strike on the SNES/PS. Controls and gameplay were not very enjoyable. Graphics settings also didn't stick so it was playing at an extremely low resolution. It's a rail based shooter that you control the speed at which you advance, but don't the ability to stop and shoot, or aim very well at a particular target. Not to be snide, but...
100 found this helpful, 2013-12-28
This is easily one of the saddest games I've ever played. Not sad as in "gripping story", sad as in "they actually thought this would make money, bless their little hearts". Nearly everything about this game is done poorly, from the interface to the controls to the effects to the voice acting (ESPECIALLY the voice acting). The game's plot, such as it is, is delivered via laughably bad translated text, spoken...
54 found this helpful, 2015-03-16
Oh wow, the hate is real. And I'm not really sure why as it provides you some decent action and doesn't try to kill you in a second like any other vshmup tends to. Keep in mind it's a 2002 game and I didn't play it before. As of hardware support, it works just fine on somewhat modern AMD GPU, polls for video modes, so low res whining down there is not legit at all. It also supports DirectInput controllers and doesn't...
26 found this helpful, 2017-02-26
I love me some arcade shooters, in all their campy gloriousness, but this one was not fun for me. I'm pretty forgiving of this genre, but this one has some flaws that annoyed the crap out of me. It has terrible overused one-liners and non-intuitive level navigation. I'm ok with one-liners, but when you have one for EVERY single defeated enemy, and random map desstructible, then it gets really old. Especially when...
30 found this helpful, 2013-12-29