Loot Hero DX

A game where you can't use window mode. And if you try? You broke your game and now have to go into the .ini to fix. This was reported in the Discussions in May 2017 and the Dev didn't even reply until April 2022...and it still isn't fixed.

Funny game

Loot Hero DX is a simplistic RPG runner released on multiple platforms. I personally played the Steam version via the Steam Deck. The plot is that a dragon is terrorizing the lands, along with many monsters as its minions. It's up to you to be the hero that defeats all the monsters around the world and slay the mighty dragon to save the day. The gameplay mainly consists of running to the right, walking into enemies to damage and defeat them. Upon defeat they'll drop gold and potentially a potion to refill your heath bar or an invulnerability potion that lasts a few seconds. Running into enemies will also damage you but your hp can slowly recover over time and it is fully replenished rapidly at the shops along the way. These shops also allow you to spend gold on upgrades. You can increase your attack, defense, critical hit chance, and speed stats. You can manually increase your decrease your movement speed up to your current level's cap to run through stages faster. You'll also gain XP for defeating enemies. Gain enough and you'll level up which will increase your attack and defense stats. At the end of each area is a boss. Defeat all of the areas and you'll face the dragon at the end. Beat the dragon to beat the game. Upon defeating the dragon you'll save a miner, which can idly collect gold for you even when you're not playing the game. You'll start over with stronger enemies that drop more gold and give more XP. You can select stages freely and continue upgrading and leveling up. The more runs you complete, the more these aspects will be boosted and you'll continue to collect miners to idly farm gold for you. There are also achievements in the game such as hitting a certain level or defeating the dragon at a certain power level. Once you've unlocked all achievements your game is essentially complete. The game is definitely a bit addictive at first. It's fun to see how fast you can blast through a section with beefed up stats. It has some decent pixel art and an alright little soundtrack. It's appealing as the kind of game where you just sort of tune out and grind for a while. A time waster. And the achievements give it a little bit more reason to keep playing. The problem is that it gets very repetitive quickly. You're going through the same areas, fighting the same enemies, and upgrading the same four stats. There's not really any loot to find other than gold. Once that stat upgrade paths cap you're pretty much only going to need attack and defense upgrades. Critical caps at 100% even though it still lets you waste gold on the upgrade. If your speed is set too high you can actually run past bosses without killing them sometimes. And there's definitely some points of lagging when too much is happening on screen. There's just a bit too much grinding to get the final achievement without anything new to spice up the gameplay before being done. And once you're done with all of that, there's really no incentive to do anything further or restart anymore. What I'm saying is that Loot Hero DX is the kind of game you should only get for a dollar or less on Steam in order to get a few trading cards and an easy 100% achievement rating. Honestly, it's probably better to play something so simple and mindless on mobile, like the original Loot Hunter. As far as I can tell, Loot Hunter DX is mostly the same thing but without ads, in-game purchases, and with the miners included. It might be better to just get the free one instead and not waste your money on something that's only going to last you a few hours at most before it's completed and played out. That's the real shame of middling experiences in gaming. Not really worth the time to complete, much less the time to review, but at least it keeps us reminded of the full spectrum of game quality. https://youtu.be/eNFf_rO0gAY?si=zoqT-RUb0qLvRjyU

Verdict: It reminded me one of those flash games from the early 2000s. Besides one more 'Perfect game' to your library there isn't anything to recommend. + Positives + + Steam trading cards (5 drop, 9 to make a badge) + Steam achievements (20, last two are grindy or you can modify ini file) + Dopamine hits from finishing one more dragon + Basically a free 100% achievements game - Negatives - - No infinite level (if you kill the boss, the level ends, forcing you to start over) - Long loading times for what the game is - No active skills or power-ups to buy - The trailer showcases the entire scope of the game, highlighting that there is nothing beyond moving left or right and auto-killing enemies. - Headache simulator - You have to modify *.ini file to make the game run (see notes) - Higher speed makes it difficult to stop at the tavern - about 5s music loop if you move (the game reacts to clicking/being idle) - If you leave Mine running for too long, it will glitch out your gold. I played it after 9 years and it overflowed the code, putting me into negative 419,000,000 gold. +/- Notes If you are having black screen issues go to C:\Users\"Your computer"\AppData\Roaming\MMFApplications and change the "screen" to 0 in the "_x1nl1" file." - credits to Rukashu

It was a fun, simple game at the start, but the grindy achievements just make It a snoozefest.

Getting the "Reach character lvl 100" achievement requires you to either a) ACTIVELY move left and right for another ~3 hours (while completing the game took ~1.5h!), or b) super actively wait through countless painfully slow loading screens and actively scroll through stage selections (with buttons that are slow to react) to hit higher levels where you get slightly more xp in hope to complete the achievement in ~1.5h - as much as you need to complete the game. Devs are lacking integrity, really. Overall - game is soulless. Not worth playing even if it was 10 cent

screen bugged out now i have a black screen, must be that window mode bug others had