Hero Quest: Tower Conflict is an Adobe Flash based dumbed down soldier defense/attack game where you just spam buttons on the panel at the bottom of the screen to spawn waves of troops that go fight your opponents waves of troops. This makes Plants vs Zombies look like 4D chess in terms of complexity, it's that shallow.
It's also infringing the trademarks and copyrights of Sierra Interactive, who own the Hero Quest/Quest For Glory franchise of point and click adventure/RPG games from 1989-1998, so we can at least hope the developer will incur some legal action in the near future. Copyright and trademark infringement is serious business.
I wouldn't be surprised if the entire game was an asset flip, after all, it's been dumped on Steam by known scammers. Here's the proof:
Mihai Morosanu/New Reality Games have a known history of trying to scam people into paying them money for someone else's work. An example of Mihai Morosanu/New Reality Games doing this is [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/679740]Totally Mayhem[/url], which is really "[url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/full-game-kit-hammer-2-43670]Full Game Kit - Hammer 2[/url]", written by the actual developers, XForm Games. Also, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/875550]Vogue, The Explorer[/url], which is really the official Unity platformer tutorial pack, "[url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/tutorials/3d-game-kit-115747]3D Game Kit[/url]", developed by Unity Technologies.
Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
The artwork here is terrible, it's a blend of old retro pixel "art" used as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics, and some of the most amateurish MS-Paint style drawings (I won't deign to call these "illustrations"). It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget to arrange someone who can do graphics properly, or lack of talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result of these decisions.
There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics.
The game only displays in a pillarboxed aspect ratio. It's possible they developed this using an old CRT they found in a dumpster, or this game has been specifically designed for people gaming on PC's from 1995... either way, this isn't really acceptable in the modern era of PC gaming.
The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just point and click stuff like a browser/Flash game. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here.
Comically, the game was written in Adobe Flash (I'm not making this up). Talk about not using the right tools for the job. Might as well try to bake a cake with a screwdriver. The extremely poor choice of game engine here is a major contributing factor to the defects with the game.
The very poor quality of this game puts it squarely on-par with ancient 1990's Flash/Java games, and given it's 2023 (and this was released not so far back in 2016), gamers and the industry expect and deserve better than this kind of low effort Flash shovelware.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a very healthy spike in player counts for the game. But this only appears around the same time that trading cards were applied to the game... so this is just card idlers getting their cards and moving on. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. The game doesn't demonstrate any true popular appeal with gamers, most likely due to the reasons raised in this review.
This is just garbage Adobe Flash shovelware dumped on Steam as a cash grab by morally defunct asset flippers. Avoid at all costs.
