Heroes

Heroes of the Information Age

During the game, you can use your crypto-coins to hire men and women that had great influence on our modern information age. They give significant advantages in the game - in fact, you won't be able to survive the higher levels without their help.

Heroes can be "bought" each time you start a new stage in the game. Use the blue button to access the market place.

Hiring and Upgrading

To hire a hero costs one crypto-coin. Once hired, heroes can be upgraded to further increase their effect for as many crypto-coins as the number of the current level. Long-tap on the hero's image to see details on effect, upgrade, and cost.

If you think that another constellation of heroes will suit your strategy better, you can reset your heroes and get back the coins spent for them. Up to version 1.19, this is free. However, this may change in future versions.

Tree

The diagram shows the game's "tech tree". Each hero becomes available when the preceding hero has been upgraded to a certain level.

There are three types, or "families" of heroes:

Heroes that enhance a specific kind of chip, such as Turing for SUB or Lovelace for SHR.
Heroes that give "economical" advantages, such as increasing the starting information (Hollerith) or reducing upgrade cost (Osborne).
Heroes that have general impact on the game, for example slowing attackers down (Vaughan) or granting additional lives (Zuse).

graph TD;
    osborne(Osborne<br>decrease update cost)
    turing(Turing<br>increase SUB speed)
    lovelace(Lovelace<br>increase SHR speed)
    cernettes(Cernettes<br>decrease attacker frequency)
    wiener(Wiener<br>increase SUB range)
    pascal(Pascal<br>increase SHR range)
    zuse(Zuse<br>increase lives)
    vaughan(Vaughan<br>decrease attacker speed)
    schneier(Schneier<br>decrease attacker strength)
    hollerith(Hollerith<br>increase starting info)
    franke(Franke<br>gain info over time)
    tramiel(Tramiel<br>increase refund)
    mandelbrot(Mandelbrot<br>gain info on kill)
    knuth(Knuth<br>increase MEM speed)
    hopper(Hopper<br>increase MEM range)
    level(<br><em>stage 14 reached</em>)


    turing--level 5-->wiener
    lovelace--level 5-->pascal
    lovelace--level 3-->cernettes--level 3-->zuse--level 3-->vaughan--level 3-->schneier
    level-->knuth--level 5-->hopper
    hollerith--level 3-->franke--level 3-->osborne--level 3-->tramiel--level 3-->mandelbrot
    
    classDef eco stroke:#FF8400,stroke-width:4px;
    class hollerith,franke,mandelbrot,tramiel,osborne eco
    classDef general stroke:#79D5FF,stroke-width:4px;
    class cernettes,vaughan,schneier,zuse general
    classDef sub stroke:#07DD00,stroke-width:4px;
    class turing,wiener sub
    classDef shr stroke:#649DF3,stroke-width:4px;
    class lovelace,pascal shr
    classDef mem stroke:#774CC3,stroke-width:4px;
    class knuth,hopper mem