A brutal platform game with an advanced speedrun system. Explore a story from Greek mythology as you rally an army to defy a tyrant. Hack and slash your way up the leaderboards and claim a world record!
Herakles is a 2D action adventure platform game that completely destroys traditional concepts. Speed and skill is far more important than the weapon you wield. You can run up walls, ceilings; there is no limit to your agility! Leap over your enemies and take them by surprise! In Herakles and the Princess of Troy, YOU have the high ground!
Key Features:
- Advanced Speedrun System
- Experience an epic 3000 year old story that will make you feel empowered after playing through
- Engage in battle against mighty bosses with unique weapons. Defeat them and you can wield them yourself!
- Explore a map full of adventure!
- Go on the hunt to find buffs! Each one will give you a powerful advantage.
- Uncover secrets as you wander the lands. If you see an animal, follow it! It'll lead you to something good!
- Amazing soundtrack leaving you immersed in the game
- 3 game modes: Demo, Classic and Campaign
Speedrun Mode:
- Race against your personal best
- 5 leaderboards to climb
- Automatically diverging routes. Go down a different path and the speedrun system will update to only compare to your runs that also went down that path
- Detailed timer information that displays: sum of best, best possible time, possible time save, segment best, segment PB, previous segment difference, live segment difference
- Main timer information that displays: main timer, segment names, PB cumulative time, difference between current cumulative time and PB cumulative time
- Speedrun results screen that compares your run to your personal best run, your best splits and much more.
- Speedrun Basics guide that explains what all of the numbers and terms mean in the speedrun mode and results screen (see community guides)
- Option to compare against your own times, the developer's times or the world record.
- Option to display buff outlines to show which route your PB went down (Campaign mode only)
- Streaming Guide that provides assets, such as webcam portrait and an input overlay (see community guides)
- 3 game modes to speedrun that vary in length. The shortest game mode is great for beginners.
- Robust anticheat system
- Attempts are pruned to keep the file size down to mere kilobytes
- Every attempt is stored but they are safe to delete as the game only needs your pruned attempts file
- Great game to get into speedrunning
