[Preview] Villagers and Heroes: Building a Better Game World

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Villagers and Heroes is a game with a twist: It is largely based on crafting and free-form game play. We took a look at Villagers & Heroes and have a great preview to offer. Read on before heading to the comments.

While the browser-based beginnings and brightly colored art style might lend a certain likeness to that other game, the similarities mostly stop there. You can play Villagers and Heroes with full-on WASD controls, with your right mouse button spinning the character and camera, your hotbar displaying skills with cooldowns. Additionally, you can pick up lots of different quests to play out and most importantly – you can craft to your heart’s content. The strongest facet of Villagers and Heroes isn’t the fact that all of these features exist, but rather how simplistically they are implemented into a seamless world.

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LittleBoot

I just logged in to give it a go- on the loading screen they appeared to be playing Holst's Planets - hence the good music.  

hockeyplayr

looks interesting.  Tried to play it on my macbook but the game just hangs when loading game assets

Trashcantoy

And as of just 15 minutes ago, the game has been Greenlit on Steam, congratz to the developers!

cronius77

this game has been on facebook for years and failed pretty badly so they rebranded the game making it less cash shop dependent. It used to be called A mystical land and was VERY and I mean VERY heavy price gouging game that lost just about all its player base. I played this game a couple of weeks ago and it seems to be a lot less asking for money aka crowns. Though combat is just like "that other game" you speak of but with a lot less skills. The game has some interesting crafting though but nothing hard or technical just you can harvest from a lot of stuff in the world .

newbinator

Just tried it. Seems like a decent game with some depth. I recommend giving it a whirl.

Myrdynn

I tried it and when I went to verify it sent me to another site to be added to a beta for Dragon soul, and when I try to log into VH it says I am not verified and to follow my email verification

Pratt2112

Nice to see games still being made with the Torque Game Engine (though it might be TGEA... which is basically TGE with shaders and some improvements). They've definitely done some work to it. Despite the limited/aged tech, they've found a very creative way to work within those limits, and actually use them to their advantage, making them part of  the game's look. I find that far more satisfying than just throwing normal maps, bloom and godrays at everything. Hats off to the designers for that!

 

I've played a bit. Haven't gotten very far, yet, but it seems pretty solid so far.

 

 

 

jayarte

Well, after reading this article, I decided to download the game and have a go for myself.  Pleasantly surprised so far.  Hard to say what it is about the game, but it just feels fun (so far, and bear in mind I'm only lv 3).  Also tried Eldevin after recommendations in another thread, but didn't take to that one quite so easily.

 

My advice, give it a try.  It'll either grab you or not, and what is there to lose? 

 

A big positive for me was that when I spoke to another player, they actually answered!  And politely!  And then after a short conversation friended me!  Goodness, it seems like years since that's happened for me in an mmo.