Hero Hours Contract

Hero Hours Contract

released on Aug 26, 2020

Hero Hours Contract

released on Aug 26, 2020

A tactical puzzle game for Nintendo Switch, PC & Mac about underpaid magical girls and their fight to become unionised!


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Love the artstyle, hate the gameplay.

No es tan divertido el loop pero amo el concepto jsjsjs, ta weno

dis game is so amazing agshkdjhebwfj
i love da art style and sense of humor and stuff and it was so much fun!!!!!!!!
i wanted to 100% da game but dat meant getting da dental plan which needed so much grinding agh
da one thing i don't like is dat there is no way to check your total money, free time and friendship with other characters, but i love da game so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The gameplay loop is pretty standard. Solve some randomized puzzles with magical girl powers to earn gems. Use the number of gems you have to negotiate for better wages, time off, or otherwise. Use those wages + time off to build up social links, which will improve your abilities. Rinse, repeat. Its kind of addicting but it definitely becomes draining the second you start to get close to the ending.

The story... exists! Magical girl unionizing is fun in concept and the writing does attempt to spotlight various financial struggles and woes here and there. But its also just a little too... cozy. Soft and cuddly and conflict free. Effortlessly clowning on capitalists and bigots and so on. I guess I want stronger character writing from these stories, showing how hard these fights really are.

But on the other hand, who the fuck am I, right? Its a magical girl strategy game, not Kentucky Route Zero. Look at this pretentious asshole who wrote all that, I mean wowza.