

Think Hearthstone meets Clash Royale and you’ll have it about right.Īs in most CCGs, you have a variety of spells, equipment, structures and troop cards you can deploy. A major difference between Hero Academy 2 and Clash Royale is that it is turned-based instead of real-time action. Each turn, players receive five mana with any unused mana rolling over into the next turn. To defend, you lay down card-based units on your board using your mana pool. The object of the game is to destroy all of your enemy’s towers before he or she destroys yours. Gameplay takes place with Crystals that serve as your towers on each side of a grid. If you’ve spent any amount of time playing Clash Royale, figuring out the basic structure of this game is simple. Hero Academy 2 is like Clash Royale meets Hearthstone. I’ve been working the challenges and duels for the last couple of days and can honestly say, if you enjoy strategy-based battling games, you need to be playing this one. Though elements of the game’s strategy will be reminiscent of Clash Royale, Hero Academy 2 stands firmly on its own to feet as a deep strategy offering that gets harder (and better) as you play. Most of these releases left me uninspired at best, but with Hero Academy 2, there’s been no such disappointment. Due to its incredible success, numerous copycat strategy games released in hopes of attaining even a sliver of the spotlight cast upon Clash Royale.

Ever since its release, Clash Royale has been my gold standard when it comes to CCG/Tower defense titles.
