▲ Recommended
108 hrs
My Review After 8 Months of Bit Heroes
Intro
Bit Heroes is a cross-platform free to play grindfest game. If you don't like game that require you to do the same task over and over again, this game is not for you. If you are the type to get upset because RNG isn't in your favor, again, this game is not for you. This game is energy based rpg where you can log into the same account across different devices to pick up where you left off before leaving for work in the morning. There are updates at least every Friday, sometimes we get spoiled with a suprise update mid week. In this game, you venture through quests. These quests have floors where you must complete without the help of friends, but with your own famailiars. Every monster you fight in-game has a potential to "think you're cool" and you have a choice to bribe them with gems, or persuade them with coins. Don't get too caught up on gems though because you get enough through normal gameplay in order to unlock shop-exclusive items such as special pets and accessories. There are also dungeons on the quest map, these are harder than floors if just using your familiars, but you're actually allowed to bring any of your friend's characters into the dungeon with you and control them for yourself. You'll see what I mean if you download the game.
Pros
[*]Easy to learn, fun to play.
[*]Auto mode that allows you to look away from the screen.
[*]Rewarding sense of accomplishment once finally getting an item you were going after.
[*]Has easy and reliable ways of getting the premium currency.
[*]Guilds have great benefits like raising the cap on specific type of energies (raid shards, tokens, pvp tickets, etc)
Cons
[*]Game has been out over a year, in order to dominate the leaderboard you'll have to literally spend tens of thousands of dollars.
[*]Friends list isn't really for "friends" the goal of a good friends list for most people is to have extremely high level players in order to do the highest level available content.
[*]Some people will remove you as a friend (no longer able to use them for dungeons and raids) after being offline for 12-24 hours.
Ending Note
Before spending your time and potentially money on this game, check out some of the communities such as their Reddit page, their Discord server, and the wiki page. Lastly, I am more than willing to help anyone who asks for it. Sometimes my guild may have an open spot, I can sometimes make room for friends, and if not I have the resources to get you started on your adventure. Feel free to send me a message!
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Steam ↗
▼ Not recommended
273 hrs
Bit Heroes is a turn-based idle game with regenerating resources for the player to spend on doing such things as Questing, PvPing, running Trials/Gauntlet, Invasion/Expedition/Guild vs Guild, and the big boy Raids. Right now I have just under 300 hours on this game on Steam and that doesn't even count my main account on my mobile device which has probably twice as many hours put into it. So, overall I would say about 900+ hours has gone into this game for me. Yet, sadly, I cannot recommend it.
You start out as a normal level 1 like everyone else and the game teaches you about questing in the areas to progress through higher tiers. Bit Heroes as a tier system of equipment, where as you defeat the "Zone" you are in, which means going through 9 "Flags" (Mini-Quests) and then defeating the 3 "Dungeons" (Main big quests with Bosses), you will progress to the next zone and the equipment found in that zone will be a tier up. Ex. Zone 1 has tier 1 gear, Zone 2 has tier 2 gear, etc. So, you do your first flag at the start and then you learn about "Persuading" and "Bribing" familiars, which are the games kind of Pokemon system, if you will. This is where the player should know the game is flawed. If you want a certain familiar, you can persuade it with gold (which is easy to get), but with a very low chance of the familiar joining you. If you want a guaranteed 100% chance of catching a familiar, you can spend Gems to get them. Yep. Gems. Like every idle game or mobile game, there has to be a currency which you pay real money for to progress easier through the game. Disclosure: I have always stayed F2P during both my accounts and have reached end game on both of them, so it technically is not P2W.
As you go through the questing flags and reach dungeons to get further, you will start to run out of energy. You have to wait until your energy refills if you want to continue to play the game and progress, which, in my opinion, no game should have a feature like that, but here we are. Same goes with your PvP "tickets", your Trials/Gauntlet "Tokens", your Raid "Shards", and your Invasion/Expedition/GvG "Badges". They all take a long time to refill. Usually I will play and spend all my resources and then end up waiting about 8 hours or so until they are all filled up. 8 hours. Yeah, you can play real quick for like half an hour and then be okay waiting for 8 hours, but when you really want to progress and complete that dungeon and unlock the next tier and zone, you will have to wait. For 8 hours.
This game has insane RNG mechanics that I have yet to fathom. Everything you loot is random and is based on your Item Find percentage. You can extend this percentage by, yep, you guessed it, spending gems on items to increase your item find. Brilliant. To give it some perspective, there are accessory boxes and pet boxes in the gem shop that cost about 800 gems (On Sale) and you have a 2% chance on receiving a legendary from these boxes. Now, 800 gems is about 10$ USD. For a 2% chance on an item, that is some ♥♥♥♥ to be pulling, Juppiomenz. I have seen players that play more than me try over and over for these legendaries and spend hundreds of dollars to try and get them because they are so essential, yet they can never get one. And you would think "Oh 2%? That's like 50 boxes." Wrong. There are videos on YouTube about people opening hundreds of boxes and never getting a legendary. The whole game is rigged from the start. The gearing system has "Set" and "Mythic" items being the best items you can get, but damn, in all my time, I have only received 2 mythics TOTAL on BOTH characters. And that was with increased item find from the daily bonuses and using Super Scrolls(150% bonus to everything) that I received for free. And good luck finding "Set" items. You would have better luck winning money at a casino.
Now, you will receive gems for free from time to time, but the amount you get is so minuscule, that it would take MONTHS to even have enough to buy a box or pet from the gem shop. And this is all for what? The pay to win players are all spending thousands of dollars to be the best they can be and you will never have a chance to be in the high rankings or receive the best rewards because you won't spend any money on this cash-grab trash of a game.
To be fair, this game's animations are amazing. And the gear you receive you can transmogrify and earn cosmetic rewards every week to make your character whoever you want it to be. You can be a chef, a knight, a dark demon, you can even change your skin color to an Alien or an Orc. The customization is so well done, that I look forward every Friday to receive my cosmetic chest and see what new items I can use for a new outfit.
I love Bit Heroes. I really do. The community is great. The discord channel they have is amazing, but I have seen so many people, high level and low level, quit because there is just no point. It's not fun. It's a chore. And it's all rigged. You can tell yourself, "Just one more raid and I will get that last set piece", but I hate to break it to you, but no one is that lucky. Spend thousands of dollars and maybe you will get there. I recommend this game up until you reach the first raid and you get to see all the enemies and the boss and the loot and it is all so spectacular. But after you run the first raid 5 times, you will learn that you gained no gear or anything and have to wait another 8 hours to do it all over again. I have met a lot of cool people in this game and don't regret my time played, but I don't recommend anyone to put as much into it as I have. It will get you nowhere and you will always wake up thinking "Oh, I gotta do Bit Heroes" like it is a chore, when games should not have that annotation tied to them.
I really hope this review helped anyone thinking that is a free to play game and is highly rated on Kongregate and wanted to check it out. I also wish good luck and an RNG blessing to anyone who plays this game.
