Idle Kingdom Defense +12

I’ve been loving this game for months. There’s so much to do everyday even after months of game play. I hope the developers continue to add to the game because I’d love for an new level to be added to the Hero’s, Blacksmith, and Archer’s beyond Mythic as I’m close to capping out. There’s also room to add more continents to conquest, as I’ve finished that piece a while ago. With that said, it would be nice to also be able to reuse Hero’s as their isn’t enough already to give each Capital a Hero when all 3 continents are conquered. Lastly, and most wanted as a player, new Hero’s would be so much fun. I truly love the game and would love so much to be able to continue to unlock new things, like the final renovation in the bottom left of the main screen. 5 out of 5 stars, and please if there’s time and of course interest from others I’d love to see this game continue to grow!

Everything in this game looks great and feels great to play. The monetization is mostly ads that feel non-intrusive, the real world transaction shop is so inefficient it prices out everyone but whales, and they give you an option to opt out of all ads with a one time purchase, which I would recommend for anyone enjoying this game.

That said, this game suffers from a big problem: there aren’t any meaningful decisions being made in team composition.

Essentially, you just want to put out your best heroes at all times to maximize damage out and minimize damage in. The combination of heroes does not matter, because they don’t interact except in the minor debuffs on enemy monsters. Even in the Portal which debuffs your types of damage or mitigation is irrelevant; optimizing for the challenge might push you forward one level, but the reward is so small compared to just maintaining and waiting for your other stats to get there. I feel like this can be partially fixed by providing meaningful buffs based on the number of heroes of each “class” deployed (archer, warrior, wizard, whatever) or some other commonality, which would encourage mixing and matching of heroes, make the non S/A tier heroes less useless, and give this game a little depth.

I’d still recommend this game to anyone interested. The game is still beautiful, the developers appear motivated and progression feels exciting, albeit a bit unimaginative.

I love this game, I have been playing it for about 6 months. The developer is very active and adding new content. It seems like it’s a small team so new content isn’t necessary 100% perfect but it’s still great. I usually quit hero collectors after 3-4 weeks, it’s the perfect mix of hero collector with idle defense.

One comment to developers: there are lots of stats to consider in the game and there are limited tool tips about what the stats do. For example: My +Crit chance is 3327, what does that mean? Is it an extra 3% chance to crit or something worse?. More transparency on character stats would help make team and equipment decisions more informed.