3 Minute Heroes is a real-time strategy game that combines tower defense, deck building, and rogue-like genres. Place your champions, use cards, and keep your home safe for 3 minutes!
The game offers 20 unique heroes, each with their own special abilities and card decks. Players can choose a primary hero and pair it with two additional heroes, allowing for a wide variety of playstyles and strategies depending on the hero combination.
The game boasts over 400 unique cards that players can obtain and add to their deck. The card selection is tailored to the chosen heroes, so players don't need to know every card in the game. This helps keep the experience accessible for both beginners and experienced players.
Each game consists of 12 rounds, with each round lasting 3 minutes. Players must face a variety of monsters and boss enemies from different factions, such as slimes, goblins, ghosts, golems, demons, and dragons, each with their own unique patterns and behaviors. At the end of each round, players can choose from one of three reward options to upgrade their deck.
The game features 20 different keywords that players can add to their cards, such as "Combo" (repeating card effects) and "Guardian" (making targets invincible). This allows for significant customization and synergy building within the deck.
Enemies drop various loot items that players can activate to gain beneficial effects. Additionally, the game tracks the player's top three actions per round and offers specific quest conditions with associated rewards, further incentivizing strategic play.
Alongside the main campaign, the game includes an "Arena" mode, where players can compete against other players' decks in an asynchronous auto-battler format. The game also features 10 challenging "Extreme Stages" that introduce additional environmental hazards and obstacles.
Players seem to enjoy the game's charming aesthetic, diverse hero and card selection, and the overall sense of strategy and replayability. The game's combination of tower defense, deck building, and rogue-like elements is widely praised, with players highlighting the versatility in playstyles and the satisfying feeling of successfully defending against waves of monsters. While some players have noted room for improvement in the user interface and balance, the general consensus is that the game is a fun, engaging, and well-executed take on the tower defense genre.