Tap Heroes was released in the middle of last year to Steam. It's an indie adventure clicker from VaragtP.
The game is simply that you are a 'god hand' trying to get your Heroes as far as possible through the various locations by fighting past enough monsters or creatures in a particular level before you can advance. Beating creatures gives your coins which you can then use to upgrade the abilities of both your Heroes and your 'god hand'; which you use to more quickly beat creatures, heal quicker or just be able to endure the power of greater monsters. You can also acquire a rarer currency, the blue gem, which you can use to buy non-stat upgrades, such as a familiar pet or initially to recruit new Heroes into your party.
Your 'god hand' itself can be used to click upon enemies to attack them quicker than your Heroes generally can (but with less power) or to heal your Heroes by clicking upon any of them, again quicker than your Heroes can but with less power. It also has chances to get critical hits upon your enemies and all three aspects (attack, heal and critical chance) are the upgradeables for your 'god hand' along with a range of temporarily applied powers that you have the chance to unlock later on in the game.
At £1.99 UK or $2.99 US the game is cheap and that's a good thing. The game looks lovely, plays well and is smooth to run on a computer - the setting seems to be a puppet theatre in which the characters and creatures are paper cutouts on sticks. While the environments passed through are of the sort you'd expect to find in an adventure game, the monsters themselves vary up quite a bit. You only need to beat 10 creatures or one boss per level so there's not really going to be the feeling you're fighting just the same thing unless you choose not to advance to the next level and instead grind out coins before you head on.
However, there's a reason this game has a low price tag and that's because quite simply... it's a clicker game. It isn't really made for its gameplay, rather as something to fill the time in. It won't surprise you to find out that Tap Heroes is also available on mobile platforms as well, albeit with in-app purchases that were removed from this PC version. That is the sort of platform this game was really made for, being able to play a little bit then put away and return to later and collect the coins your heroes made for you while you were away. And the fact that you will gain a sizeable number of coins when you come back if you leave it long enough does mean that you will have more than enough for stat upgrades - which takes the challenge out of it.
Tap Heroes is not a bad game by any means. It runs well, does manage to be challenging and really is delightful to look at. The problem is, it's not a very engaging game either purely because it is a game that suits a mobile platform better. But as a PC game, that's a bit of a downside.
5/10