Square Heroes

Gnomic Studios / Apr 9, 2015 / Action, Indie

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Join the Galactic Tournament in this fast-paced comical action shooter. Level-up your Hero and unlock an arsenal of weapons. Lay waste to your friends and foes in local, LAN and online multiplayer matches, or hone your skills in single player and custom games.

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What's new

Square Heroes 1.6 Major Update

2016-02-25

Square Heroes 1.6 released in conjunction with the upcoming release of Square Heroes on PlayStation® 4 There are a raft of new features and fixes, so let's get right to it: NEW FEATURES / CHANGES • Cross-platform play with PlayStation® 4 (in addition to Windows, Linux and Mac) • Added Japanese language • Reduced XP required to level up to higher levels • Allow Heroes to have the same name • Added location to replay tutorial (near the professor) • Kingslayer mode now allows re-spawn if co-op friends still alive • Link new Hero to Steam account even after first Create Hero dialog • Added UPnP port mapping setting to fix connection issues for some FIXED • Suicide bug when hit an enemy’s projectile with melee • Steam Achievements not awarded when language not English • Steam overlay on Mac

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• Deathmatch end level detection in net games when host is the last kill • Reduced crate pick-up time to mitigate crate synch issues with high latency remotes. • Various rare bugs • Network error on Windows XP

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What players say

Very Positive

83% positive, 126 reviews

Recommended2 hrs played

Square Heroes is a multiplayer focused arena shooter from Australian Developer Gnomic Studios. In Square Heroes you create your owngenetically engineered killing machine that's only goal in life is to kill anything that moves, fight off aliens or even collect gnomes because gnomes are cool. +Nice cartoony graphics +Characters, both player and computer are well designed and somewhat remind me of BattleBlock's...

73 found this helpful, 2015-04-11

Recommended1 hrs played

At first I was a bit skeptic, but then I joined some friends and played a match with them, and then I played another match with them, and another, and another. That's the best description I'll ever be able to come up with for this game. A game that's meant to be played with friends (surely you've at least one of those). "I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have...

19 found this helpful, 2015-04-21

Not recommended10 hrs played

After having played this a bit against humans rather than the bots I went back to edit this review... Zip around in an arena and try and blast each other. It's good clean fun with friends. Are there better games of this type? Sure. Should you buy this? No, I wouldn't recommend doing so. Why not? While the core gameplay is kinda fun enough, the game has some serious flaws. In no particular order: * It's one of those...

6 found this helpful, 2017-01-20