![]() The quintessential ‘just one more go’ bait that roguelikes trade on, but amplified by the sort-of ‘idle play’ that makes Vampire Survivors so captivating and unputdownable. As your hero grows and learns, you can add new buildings and structures to the loop, conferring bonuses to your confused hero and making them stronger – readying them for the inevitable fight that lies ahead. Your hero remembers a world, sort of, and will travel the same looping path over and over trying to piece reality back into place as you reassemble something that might be real around them. Where there was life, there is now a void. In Loop Hero, some ancient power has removed everything from the universe. Make a loop, watch your hero die, start again. But instead of taking direct control of the little pixel figure at the center of the universe, you control the world around them instead behaving like some ancient, maddened god, drawing mountains out of the earth, creating forests primeval at the edges of the map whilst summoning villages and abandoned libraries by the roadside for your hero to pilfer. In Loop Hero (as you’d expect given its name) you take on the role of a hero who is trapped in a never-ending loop. Why? Because Loop Hero is a unique blend of roguelike, strategy, and RPG elements that somehow manages to take a handful of ingredients you know like the back of your hand and have tasted before, and combined them into something wholly new. And I’ve already sunk a good 20 hours into it, all over again. The game, developed by Four Quarters and already massively popular on Nintendo Switch and PC, landed on Game Pass earlier this month. That is the core conceit of Loop Hero – the critically acclaimed indie game that spread its roots through the greatest minds in gaming back in 2021, and kept a whole audience of hapless would-be heroes invested in its cycling mechanics for months. Watch it again, and again, and again, and again, and again. They say the definition of insanity is to do the same thing, over and over and over and over again – but what if, in repeating your life in a continual loop and learning a little bit more about the reason for your existence each time, you actually made progress? What if, instead of being doomed to insanity from repetition, it actually saved your life? Don't just watch it once.
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