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Hero Academy 2 (2018)

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Hero Academy 2 launches on PC early access, iOS, and Android.
Robot Entertainment has spent the last several years dealing with rampaging humanoids with the Orcs Must Die! franchise. But it also has another well-received series, Hero Academy, a tactical game that appeared on iOS, Android, and Steam way back in 2012 — and it’s launching the sequel today.

Hero Academy 2 is now available in the iOS and Android app stores and as a PC early access game from Robot Entertainment’s site. It’s a free-to-play title, and it still involves you taking teams of warriors to battle on a map — gameplay that was entertaining enough to bring its predecessor 6 million downloads over three platforms. The sequel expands this with deck-building. You create your teams of fighters, mages, and more with cards, swapping units and spells into and out of your lineups.

Robot Entertainment is working with BonusXP in Allen, Texas. This is the studio that put out the recent Stranger Things mobile game. In an interview today with GamesBeat, CEO Patrick Hudson said that his crew turned to BonusXP for help because they knew them from their days at Ensemble Studios, the strategy game house that’s the predecessor to Robot Entertainment.

“We didn’t expect it to take as long as it did [to get back to Hero Academy]. We got occupied with Orcs Must Die!” he said. “A couple of years ago, friends across town at BonusXP reached out, ‘We got a tactics card game, but we’d be interested in making it a Hero Academy franchise game.’ We started brainstorming, and we both got excited to work together, a chance to work with a team we trusted.”

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