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Review: Flat Heroes (Steam)

Flat Heroes encourages you to stylishly navigate and survive over 300 handcrafted levels, destroy the most epic bosses around and truly be the two-dimensional hero (or heroes!) you’ve always dreamed you could be. Here is our Flat Heroes review.

Pros:

Minimalistic graphics.

149MB Download size.

Steam achievements.

Controller support.

Gameplay is a mix of puzzle platformer and survival.

The goal…

Chris explores this minimalist #puzzle title from Parallel Worlds, #FlatHeroes. Is there more than meets the eye, or does it fall flat..?

Parallel Cricle advertises it’s first creation as a studio, Flat Heroes, as ‘a minimalist, epic adventure’. And as soon as you open the game, you can see they aren’t kidding: The title screen is four squares and a background that, every now and then, shifts colours. Only the energetic menu theme indicates that, yes, this is indeed a game, and not an interactive gallery of some kind. One that’s…

By Amr (@siegarettes)

Flat Heroes

Developer- Parallel Circles

Publisher- Deck 13

Nintendo Switch, PC

Flat Heroes is a minimalist action game that demonstrates how animation and solid controls can make even simple shapes feel kinetic. Actions are simple--there’s a jump, a dash, an short burst attack, and wall kicks. Your avatars have weight--they roll around on their corners, and latch onto walls as their flat sides create friction. Enemies almost feel like they have they have personalities, operating with different behaviors, their basic shapes communicating immediately what their patterns are.

Each stage is a bite sized, almost puzzle like stage. Every stage is a single square screen. There’s a short countdown to let you take in the layout, then obstacles begin to come to life. This might be a series of shots that require you to observe and dodge their sequence, laser beams that cut off areas of the stage and require cover to escape, or enemies that chase you in waves as you pass them by. There’s a lot of variations, and they’re each slowly introduced before mixing them with other obstacles to complicate the problem. You’ll die frequently, but once you figure out the solution stages are brief, never going past a minute in length.That is, if you can nail the sequence.

.@FlatHeroes, by #ParallelCircles, provides a deceptively challenging adventure through a minimalistic approach. Check out our review:

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