Heroes of the Seasons
A downloadable RPG for Windows
Heroes of the Seasons is an entry to the RPGmakerweb 2023 Christmas Game Jam! The demo has won the honorable "Fan-Favourite" or "People's Choice" awards in the game jam. This is now a commercial game with new custom art brought to you by Berry B, new modes, more stories, more battles, more features, and more playable characters.
This game is a Boss-Rush Turn-Based RPG with Visual Novel Styled storytelling. Hire 3 Mercenaries and protect Christmas with all your might!
Set in the Year 242 A.R. (Arcane Renaissance) in the World of Vyen. Mayor Nelly of Utania Village has started decorating everything with Christmas lights and pretty stars. She had everyone in the village prepare delicious meals and treats for the holidays, and they planned on celebrating Christmas Eve together as a whole village. But one day, the biggest Christmas hater of them all, Frinch, the Goblin King, threatened Utania Village that he would ruin Christmas and destroy everything. We must protect the holidays at all costs! Thankfully, Mayor Nelly found Mercenaries willing to lend their aid in protecting Christmas and preserving the holiday spirit. Help Mayor Nelly and her friends by forming your Heroes of Christmas to fight King Frinch's army!
But wait, how are we sure that King Frinch is the only adversary to the holidays? What if a certain Lovecraftian lord is yearning to end the festivities? Or a jealous demoness with burning desires to destroy the Goddess' festive creation? Or a mere simpleton who's more than meets the eye, pulling the strings? We will never know unless we fight all of the haters.
Boss Rush Mechanics:
Generally, most modes follow this setup, except for Jam Mode, which is easier and faster to finish. You face a wave of mobs, then a boss, and afterward, rest at a camp to buy items, talk to your mercenaries, visit your home to decorate or unwind, save, and open the menu.
After completing three sets of mob waves and bosses, you will face the Final Boss. Upon victory, you can claim rewards and unlockables and keep all the Vyse (Gold) and equipment you've acquired. If you wish, you are then taken back to the mercenary select screen to play another round of the game modes.
Mercenary Tpes: As you pick your 3 Mercenaries to battle the Christmas-haters and become Heroes of Christmas, you will be able to pick between three types of mercenaries.
Tank: Tank-type mercenaries have high survivability to protect themselves and the party. They can provoke enemies to target them in their allies' stead. Their defenses are initially strong, but most tanks aren't fit to deal heavy damage to enemies.
Nuker: Nuker-type mercenaries are the main damage dealers. They can dish out heavy physical or magical damage to the enemy ranks, but they lack the survivability to protect themselves from enemy retaliation.
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Support: Support-type mercenaries are versatile characters who can heal allies HP and MP, give party buffs and shields, and debuff enemies (Depending on the support character's skills.) Their survivability isn't as great as a tank's, and their damage-dealing is not as great as a nuker's, but they're rather decent at both aspects.
Elemental Triangle: Both players and enemies will have Elemental Affinities (Physical, Force, and Arcane) and will be affected by the Elemental Triangle weakness system.
- Fast-Paced Turn Based Battles
- Home decoration
- Fight Challenging Mobs and Bosses as you progress
- Replayability
- Customizable party combinations and gears
- Unlockables
- Fun Character interactions
- Christmas Spirit is everywhere!
Bonus:
Tv Tropes page for Heroes of the Seasons:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/HeroesOfTheSeasons
Purchase
In order to download this RPG you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $6.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
Development log
- TV tropes page for Heroes of the Seasons!May 05, 2024
- New Lategame Consumables!Feb 21, 2024
- Enemy mobs nerf patch and more!Feb 20, 2024
- Supports and Tank Mercenary buff patch!Feb 14, 2024
- Official Release!Feb 07, 2024
- Trailer is now up!Jan 21, 2024
- 100$ Crowdfunding goal has been reached!Jan 12, 2024
- Crowdfunding this project for Custom ArtsJan 04, 2024
Comments
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This game is very colorful and pretty. I really like the visuals. The controls threw me off for a bit until I checked out the key bindings. Everything played smoothly and I enjoyed it. My main comment would be that, for me, this would be hard to play in 20 minutes because it takes me longer than that to check out the characters, abilities, decide on equipping, etc. I tend to go rather slowly and methodically. But as a larger game, that wouldn't be a problem. I was also confused by the turn order. For some reason I always expect turn order to go left to right instead of right to left. But that is a me problem. Very nice game.
Thank you so much for playing and for the feedback, Zombie! ^^ <3 I'm happy you enjoyed the game! :D And yep, I guess I did learn this was never meant to be a game shorter than 20 minutes. xD :D <3 Thanks so much again! :)
Really enjoyable and fun combat focused game. It feels like a vertical slice out of a bigger project and I think that works well for such a short game focused on battles. It really respects my time as a player with it basically being quick virtual novel style cutscenes, shops that get straight to the point, streamlined "menu" (during the break scenes), and punchy battles. I would have preferred to be able to equip my actors from that same pseudo menu instead of having to select "menu" and then navigating to equip but that's a personal preference and not a deal breaker as I understand this was made in a short amount of time. I like the variety of characters and none of them feel like blatant copies of each other. I played this one twice because it didn't record right the first time, so I chose different characters my second run compared to my first run through just to see how they played. Nice variety of skills, equipment, and consumables. It feels designed to let the player win and a little more difficulty wouldn't be a bad thing, but over all a nice introduction to what could be a more in depth and complicated battle system. For a short game jam, it's perfect. I like the Rock-Paper-Scissors design of the combat system. The art is nice but the enlarged and pixelated backgrounds don't match the character art. Honestly though, that's just nit picking as it fits the vibe and tone of the game. The writing is short and punchy, which I like. The overall presentation, polish, and execution are all top notch, very well done and shows a high level of competency of you as a game dev. Great job!
Hi Slaughty and wow! Thank you so much for playing the game and for giving a very detailed review! I am sooo excited to watch your playthrough as well! ^^ <3 And im glad you mentioned the game could use challenge, since this will be worked upon after the jam with more unlockable characters & more challenging modes. ^^ Anyway, Im so happy you enjoyed this short demo for what it is <3 Thank you so much once again Slaughty! Merry Christmas' <3
Finished this in 30 mins!
Never thought that you can make a battle focused game under 20 mins gameplay this enjoyable !
My dancer is fully equipped and ready to burn everything WAHAHAHA!
Hello Ilmania and wow that's awesome you got Mikaye in full burning-everything gear, love it xD :D <3 Thanks so much once again for playing and I'm so happy you enjoyed! <3 ^^
Made originally for a Christmas game jam, this game turned out to be more fun that I expected. Gameplay is fun and the rock-paper-scissors mechanics are well implemented.
This game is re-playable. It offers many different characters and lots of items to grind for. The game is pretty to look at as well.
A very well put-together package! Well done!
Hi windryder and wow thank you so much for the kind words and for playing the game I'm very happy you enjoyed the game and its replayability. ^_^ <3 Grateful for this jam that gave me this opportunity to create something like this. ^^