
Hold the line against the orc horde in this side-scrolling incremental strategy game. Recruit humans and mercenaries, master active abilities, and survive escalating waves of orcs, dragons, and bosses. Every run gets harder — and you get stronger.
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About
The orc horde marches on your kingdom. Your walls are all that stand between them and ruin.
Humans vs Orcs is a fast-paced incremental strategy game where you recruit units, upgrade your forces between waves, and unleash devastating abilities to push back an ever-growing orc invasion. Each run sharpens your army with permanent upgrades, unlocks new mercenaries, and pushes you deeper into a campaign that escalates from goblin skirmishes to dragon-led sieges.
Easy to pick up, brutal to master.
BUILD YOUR ARMY
Recruit a varied roster of human soldiers and elite mercenaries — swordsmen, archers, knights, wizards, priests, werewolves, vampires, and more. Each unit has distinct abilities like blocking, charging, cleaving, healing, and lifesteal. Build the perfect composition to counter every threat.
SURVIVE THE ORC HORDE
Battle a wide range of orc enemies across multiple themed factions — green orcs, frost raiders, infernal warriors, and elite bosses. Every wave hits harder. Every boss demands a new strategy. Special wall waves force you to adapt or die.
CONQUER DRAGONS
Devastating dragon attacks soar across the battlefield raining fire on your troops. Unlock Dragon Wards to survive their onslaught, or use the Dragon Horn to delay the inevitable.
EXPLORE EVOLVING BATTLEFIELDS
Fight across hand-crafted pixel art maps that shift as the campaign deepens — green fields, murky swamps, frozen wastes, scorched warzones, hellscapes, and arcane moonlit ruins.
PRESTIGE AND GROW
Earn Skulls each run and spend them in the War Council on Legacy upgrades and unit recruitment. Every defeat makes you stronger. Unlock new units, boost your economy, and push deeper into the orc onslaught.
ACTIVATE ABILITIES
Trigger powerful active abilities mid-battle — Rain of Arrows, Rally Cry, Dragon Horn, and Gold Rush. Time them right to turn the tide.
KEY FEATURES
- Recruit a roster of human and mercenary units, each with unique combat roles
- Battle a wide range of orc enemies across multiple themed factions
- Survive escalating waves featuring epic bosses and counter-chain wall fights
- Face devastating dragon attacks that can wipe out your kingdom
- Prestige system with Skulls and Legacy upgrades
- Hand-crafted pixel art battlefields that evolve as you progress
- Combo system and active battlefield abilities
- Retro pixel art style with original soundtrack
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil*languages with full audio support
Reviews
Could be a fun little Age of War style game with a couple hours of gameplay but there are a LOT of annoying QoL issues and menu problems with this one. TLDR; The game is poorly scaled, poorly explained, and lacks a sense of reward or risk. Losing means nothing, winning means nothing. To get into more detail: - Unlocking new units doesn't work past the first 5, you'll be unlocking units as you progress but there is no way to actually use them. You simply get the first 5 and there doesnt seem to be a way to switch them out. - The skulls mechanic is not explained well at all and is quite frustrating until you figure it out. - There isn't a real loss condition which takes away the rogue-like feeling that the dev is presumably going for, you just back out when you can't beat a level. Dragons force you to back-out and restart but aren't a rewarding mechanic. - Chests mean nothing, some have new units (which you have no way of using) and others just contain "boss defeated". You defeat a boss to open a chest and inside the chest is just a message saying you defeated the boss? Strange choice. - Early game scaling is rough, give the players a few rounds to win before they need to back out and spend skulls. You spend a lot of time losing to collect skulls or earn money before the game finally takes off.
[i]Note: I received this product for free for testing. My opinions are my own and getting the product for free does not guarantee a good or bad review.[/i] I don't fully recommend this game, but also, I won't say skip it. It sits on neutral ground. It's short overall but it has potential in the future. The concept is solid (though has been done my times before). The problem is there is no direction as to what you are supposed to do. At one point, I just kept failing over and over on purpose to build up money to then advance. Not sure if this is the method or not since there was no tutorial. I think with some polish, this would be a fun game. For now, I'd say skip it and watch for updates / improvements. I'll update my review in the future if the game gets updated.
This game feels very empty. Content seems to end after an hour. Not worth 5 bucks. Go see a movie.
Absolutly NO! Dont but it. I get it for free but this was also to much. Its really im possible to Win. You just cant win this game.
Игра Humans Vs Orcs с виду интересная, местами даже потно бывает, но дальше концепции игра не вышла. Прокачка слабая, игра надоедает уже через 15 минут. Ощущение что игра должна быть глубже, но в игре нет даже достижений, поэтому это кал оф дути, проходим мимо и забываем.
el juego tiene varios problemas primero es mas conveniente morir que ganar las oleadas hasta que tengas suficiente dinero le falta mucho desarrollo, además de que esta todo en ingles, tienen que traducirlo a mas idiomas, falta una gran variedad de personajes y poder elegirlos con costos diferentes para cada cosa,
not to bad take a while to get into it
Not bad! I got all the upgrades in about two hours. As others have mentioned, there's not really much of a tutorial, and I spent way longer than I should have failing waves to store up money, BUT there are meta-progression upgrades at the main menu you're supposed to buy to get further in the game. There's not really any indication after completing/failing a wave that there are more upgrades than just the ones you can buy with gold, but you have to go back to the main menu to see them. $4.99 may be pushing it for the amount of play time I got out of this one and all the AI assets (as mentioned in the disclaimer), but it's a pretty okay game. Reminds me a lot of Age of War and other classic flash games.
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