Incremental Epic Hero news & patch notes

Hi, I'm Hitan from Hapiwaku the development team of Incremental Epic Hero! Last month, we released the Playtest of Incremental Epic Hero 2. We are tremendously grateful for all of your feedback, as more people participated in our playtest than we originally anticipated, you have helped us to make many positive changes to the game. Thank you so much for your help with that. However, our original timetable for completing certain objectives has, as a result, been delayed, and there are several more features and mechanics that we feel must be present in the game before we release it to early access. This means that our original release date of June 10th is no longer feasible.

Official Launch on July 22nd and New Playtest Launch on June 10th!

Then we have determined the new release date on July 22nd. We will also start the new IEH2 Playtest on June 10th! At that time, we will wipe the saves of IEH2 Playtest since we've added a lot of content and changed the balance around even for early game. We are really grateful for everyone participating in the IEH2 Playtest. I'm sorry that we need to reset the saves, so much has changed that in order to get the quality of feedback we need for further balancing, this is an unfortunate, but necessary, course of action. However, we’ll be distributing appreciation gifts in the June 10th patch for you all, as our way of saying thank you for participating and helping us make this game great!

Playtest/IEH1 Players Appreciations Gifts

At the new Playtest ver. 0.3.0.0 launch on June 10th - For participants of IEH2 Playtest before June 10th:

• 3000 Nitro
• Enables to switch nitro speed from x2 to x3

At the official launch on July 22nd - For participants of IEH2 Playtest before June 10th:

• 3000 Nitro
• Some amount of Epic Coin

- For participants of IEH2 Playtest regardless date:

• Portal Orbs (The amount is determined by Steam Achievement # you get in Playtest)
• Some amount of Epic Coin

- For IEH1 Players:

• Special Talismans (The amount is determined by Steam Achievement # you get in IEH1. Talismans are extra boosts of stats in game.)

Caution : The gifts are subject to change So, if you already joined in IEH2 Playtest before June 10th, you will be able to play the new playtest from June 10th with super speed nitro (x3 speed, not x2). You will also get the starting boost with 3000 nitro on both new playtest and real launch! In addition, we will implement Steam Achievement in the new playtest, that will be the same as in the real launch. According to the number that you get the achievements, you will get the starting boost of Portal Orbs at the real launch too! (Portal Orbs are the limited items that you can get several amount per day from daily quests, and are used for entering dungeons, that is one of the greatest way to level heroes.) Again, we are really appreciate to you all for giving us wonderful feedback! We will keep developing the game and improve more and more with you all 😄 Thank you for continued supports! To get more information, why not join our Discord!

Hi, I'm Hitan from the Hapiwaku IEH development team. Today, we are pleased to announce a Playtest of Incremental Epic Hero 2! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1690710/Incremental_Epic_Hero_2/ We are currently targeting official launch date on June 10th 2022. Toward that goal, we will conduct a public playtest for about a month. This will help us balance the game and improve other various aspects of the game in preparation for the official release. Please try it and post any feedback! We are very active in Discord Community and open to hear your voice to improve the game and make it more fun! Even if you've never played IEH1, you will still enjoy IEH2 🙂

New Features

Though there are a lot of new features in IEH2, let me introduce some of them:

• In addition to the original 3 characters, Warrior/Wizard/Angel, 3 new characters are in IEH2! Thief, Archer and Tamer.
• A whole new prestige system for each class and the whole world!
• A Town building system that allows you to boost upgrades, unlock new areas, and other parts of the game.
• Chat feature in the game that makes gameplay more enjoyable!
• New graphics with full HD widescreen and super optimized game performance!

A Completely New Game Compared to IEH1

When we first announced about IEH2 in IEH1 page just a year ago, IEH2 was going to be just a remaster of IEH1, but over the past year, IEH2 has become a completely new game compared to IEH1! After several alpha and beta tests, and thanks to our test team and players in Discord, the game has taken an amazing leap forward over the past year. With only about a month left until this official launch, we would love to have your help to make even more strides. Please join our Discord Community and post your great feedback 🙂 Also, please don't forget to add this game to your wishlist so that you don't miss the official release!

CAUTION

- Keep in mind that the save file of this Playtest will NOT be available in the official launch. - All the contents, features and balances in the game are subject to change. - In-app purchase in this Playtest is not available. A Message from Dev. Morkyl Hi everyone! I'm Morkyl, one of the game designers, here to express our gratitude for any feedback you can offer and to let you know that we are still hard at work designing even more to do and sculpting the game based very much on the feedback we receive. A Message from Dev. Kei About IEH1 Hello everyone, thanks for enjoying Incremental Epic Hero on a regular basis! I also apologize for the delay in reporting the progress of the update. I'm currently spending time creating an internal library codings and securing human resources to work on it so that we can update it more efficiently. The next update is scheduled for around August of this year. Also, we will be doing some collaborative updates with IEH2, so stay tuned!

Added : New Bonus Code "IEHartifact" where you can get 1000 epic coins and 3 random bronze artifacts! Fixed : Silver chest gives bronze artifact Fixed : 24hr time warp makes artifacts have only one level to evolve with even if it could level up more than 2 with 24hr Fixed : Hero goes to manual move mode when you try to evolve or discard some artifacts. Fixed : Screen size related bug. If your screen gets the size less than 800px of width, it will automatically reshaped to the size 800x600 Fixed : Cannot load the IEB save data for a take over event. Fixed : Some display bugs.

Added : Expedition & Artifact! Added : Expedition - You can unlock Expedition and expand Expedition slots through completing a quest. - After spending hours you selected, you will gain three kind of chests that include an Artifact or some materials for Artifacts. Added : Artifact - Artifacts have an unique effect and sometimes additional effects. - Artifacts grow through spending time up to its max level. - You can raise the max level by using some materials from chests. - You can expand Artifact Slot and Inventory Slot with Reincarnation upgrades. - Anti-magic Power now has no effect but will be an important factor for the future update Hidden-Challenge. Added : Time Warps in Epic Store Balanced : Offline Bonus now includes expedition progress and artifact growth Balanced : Increased Nitro Gain during offline from "1 nitro / 8 sec" to "1 nitro / 4 sec" Fixed : Display bug Message from Developer Kei Hello, everyone. First of all, sorry for the long delay in updating. In this update, there are some major changes to the system and the save system for continuous updates in the future . (As a result, the file size of the save data for the next update may become very large). As a result, various bugs have arisen and we are taking time to fix them. We apologize to everyone for the long wait. I also want to let you know about the development of IEH2, which has already started, but rather than being a sequel to IEH1, it has been decided that it will be a game with completely new content (although the basic combat system will be the same). Therefore, IEH1 will continue to be updated continuously as well. There are a couple of things that concern me about this update. First, a major system modification is changing the save system. It will not affect gameplay, but the size of the save file has been increased. There may also be some potential bugs caused by this. However, this is also necessary for us to keep this game updated for a long time, so we hope you understand. About Future Update, We will be adding more powerful challenge bosses as future updates. Like Curse Reincarnation, there will be restrictions on various stats. Also, higher tier stats will be available and you can enhance them with artifacts. Anti Magic Power will become very important in the next challenge boss. Please look forward to it!

Balanced : Now you can rebirth during Curse of Reincarnation "Road of Warrior/Wizard/Angel 3" Balanced : The effect of 4th Reincarnation skills (DEF/MDEF Ignorance) now don't apply to Big Metal during "Curse of Metal" Fixed : Reported minor bugs

Bonus Code for the 1st Anniversary! Added : Bonus Code for the 1st anniversary "IEHanniversary" Balanced : Workers in Dark Ritual now persist through Rebirth and Reincarnation with Mission Milestone 325.

The New 4th Reincarnation Skills!

Added : The 4th Reincarnation Skills, which have "Auto-Rebirth" and ""Auto-Reincarnation" in passive effect - Auto-Rebirth : You can select any area after 1-5 where you automatically rebirth to the same class just when clear the area (unavailable at curse of rein) - Auto-Reincarnation : You can automatically reincarnate to the same class when you clear area 5-4 with 1e20 or more dps (unavailable at curse of rein) Added : New QoL stuffs in QoL 4 of Epic Store - Persistent Super Queue : Allows for Super Queue assignments to be preserved through Reincarnation, including Slime Bank. - Persistent Favorite Craft : Allows for Favorite Crafts to persist through Reincarnation. The Evolution # will be halved and the level will be 1 every Reincarnation. Balanced : Nitro now persists through Reincarnation Balanced : Decreased worker cost in Dark Ritual Balanced : # of Available Favorite Crafts now doesn't count quest rewards and challenge reward Fixed : Mission Milestone 325 bug Fixed : The bug that toggles sometimes didn't save/load through rebirth and reincarnation

Happy 1st anniversary!

Today is IEH's 1st anniversary. We posted an announcement for it! Please check it too! https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1530340/view/5077221524956042499

Hi, I'm Hitan from Hapiwaku IEH development team! Thank you for playing IEH and for all your comments!

The First Anniversary!

Today, April 15, 2021 is the first anniversary of Incremental Epic Hero! We first released the alpha version on January 2020. A lot of people found our game and gave us feedback and made a lot of discussion. Then we improved it and officially released IEH on Kongregate just a year ago, April 15, 2020. We won the 4th place in Kongregate Monthly Contest of April 2020. After a while, we achieved one million plays on Kongregate. We continued to improve IEH step by step, thanks to your all support. After releasing it on Armorgames and Crazygames, we finally released it on Steam on February 2021, that was our immediate goal. Then we are pleased to welcome the first anniversary today! We are so happy and grateful to see more and more people enjoy our game. The number of the members in our Discord server is currently more than 2200, still increasing! Thank you again for your support!

IEH Road Map

IEH will keep growing in the future too. We are pleased to announce the roadmap for IEH at this time! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39806146/53123030c5a0c06b3cff3c55af3049113d9aa73b.png As we previously announced, we started to develop IEH2, that is a sequel to the current IEH. This time we announce that IEH mobile version (iOS & Android) launch has been decided! We will tell you the detail of it in the near future!

New Illustrations from Hapiwaku Artwork Team!

Also, to celebrate the 1st anniversary, we posted new illustrations from Hapiwaku artwork team! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39806146/77b6a09e75e593c6310394aa21435a5259864336.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39806146/ab9383ade7a59c9c3cd81d4523b5c4ccffb7d4d0.png

DLC Complete Bundle

In addition, we prepared the DLC Complete Bundle on Steam, that you can buy all of the DLCs with 10% off. Please try it at this opportunity! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/20687/Complete_Bundle/ I have been very busy last year because I was also a graduate school student and I had to work in physics research. I just graduated this spring and became to be able to concentrate on IEH development! I'd love to communicate you all more often. We need you! Let us improve IEH more and more fun together!!! Thank you!

The screen size issue happened sometimes, that you cannot play the game with no screen size. We apologize for any inconvenience. We are currently investigating in the issue. For those who encounter this issue, Please try inputting "Shift-Alt-S". I hope it will be fixed then :) We will keep developing to improve IEH a lot! Thank you for all your comment! :D

Added : Bonus Code "IEHhapiwakuYC" Added : Screen Size Choices (1200x900, 1400x1050) Balanced : The equipping Rank S Equipment persists through Reincarnation

Your Chronicle has launched!

My friend, Kazuma, has released Your Chronicle (YC) on Steam! This game is a text-based idle RPG. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1546320/Your_Chronicle/ To commemorate this, we hold a simple collaboration event! Play YC once and then input "IEHhapiwakuYC" in Bonus Code of System tab in IEH. You will gain reward in IEH! YC also holds the same event that you can gain reward in YC. (Access : Others>Event tab.) Thank you for all your comment! There are still few idle games in Japan. We are very active to develop idle games and want to spread its excitement all over the world from Japan!

Hi, this is Hitan, one of the developers of IEH! Thank you as always for playing IEH and for all your comments! We have released a new DLC "IEH2 Support Pack"! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1580930/Incremental_Epic_Hero__IEH2_Support_Pack/ The contents of this DLC are as follows: - Upgrades almost all the monsters' art to IEH2's. - Upgrades the character icon in the battle screen to IEH2's. - 5500 Epic Coin - Supports the developers to make IEH2. This DLC allows you to pre-warp into parts of the IEH2 world!

Incremental Epic Hero 2 Development

As we mentioned in the previous post, we are currently working on Incremental Epic Hero 2 (IEH2), which is much upgraded from the current IEH (IEH1). We plan to release IEH2 as a new game that is a sequel to IEH1 in the near future! IEH2 is a kind of Prestige Tier 3 after Reincarnation. You can take over some parts of the save data of IEH1 to IEH2 and you will gain various reward in IEH2 according to your progress of IEH1! New Features in IEH2 - Three New Classes! Thief, Archer and Tamer! - New Characteristic Monsters! Flame Tiger, Treant, Unicorn and so on! - World Map System! Expanding vast explorable areas! - Five Main Attribute Attack! Fire, Ice, Thunder, Light and Dark! - Prestige Tier 3! Powerful upgrades and changing the world! - Treasure System! More and more rewarded in area progress! - Expedition and Artifact! Improving idling feature! - New Graphics and Game Performance! Full HD wide screen! and so on... We, Hapiwaku Project Team, are still very small development team. Kei, a friend of mine, and I are main developers, who are 24 years old and just graduated from graduate school this spring. I previously planned to go on to a doctoral course, but I decided to concentrate on IEH development! My 19-years-older wife, Wakana, is pregnant and the baby is due in this June. She is working on the new world map of IEH2 with the baby. My 13-year-old daughter, Arua, is also working for various artwork of IEH2, and my sister, Nohn, is supporting them. We family are encouraged by all your comment and very active to develop IEH with hapiwaku ! (Hapiwaku is a Japanese word that means happy and excited.) A lot of new features are coming in IEH2! We will continue to work on improving our game. We will also keep updating IEH1 based on your wonderful feedback, so please keep up the good work and looking forward to the future updates! - Discord Community - Wiki - Patch Note - Website - Our another game "Incremental Epic Breakers"

Added : Auto-Use for Alchemy Added : Super Queue for Alchemy in QoL4 of Epic Store Added : Japanese and Chinese translation for System tab Balanced : Changed only-physical-attack mission to only-base-attack in Area 6-6 and 6-7 Fixed : A bug of Divine Stance (Divine Attack is available not less than 5 sec after stance is switched on) Fixed : Other minor bugs Hello! Thank you as always for enjoying IEH and for all your comments! This time we added Auto-Use and Super Queue in Alchemy, which improves the QoL for Alchemy :) We are currently preparing for the major announcement in the near future. Please look forward to it! We will continue to work on improving this game, so please keep up the good work!

Hi, this is Hitan, one of the developers of Hapiwaku Project Team :) For IEH & IEB collaboration event that is launched after , it is planned to keep permanently, so the bonus effects are permanently available. You can freely play both the games anytime :) This time, I will let you know the development stance for IEH and IEB. Kei and I (Hitan) are mainly responsible for IEH, while Suguru and Koga are mainly responsible for IEB. All of them are the members of Hapiwaku Project Team. Each developer team keeps developing each game, so neither the games' development are stopped and slowed. IEH developer team is currently working for IEH2 that is much upgraded from the current IEH. IEH2 is something like the new phase of ascension tier 3. We will soon have some announcement about the detail of IEH2 :D While, IEB developer team is still beginners to develop idle games. They are trying hard to improve IEB much more. Please give us any feedback in IEB community and support to improve it together :) By the way, I will graduate from graduate school this spring. Though I previously planned to go on to a doctoral course, I decided to concentrate on IEH development. It's a personal matter but my wife is pregnant and the baby is due in this June. I'll do my best for my family and for you all to enjoy our game and feel hapiwaku much more! (Hapiwaku is a Japanese word that means happy and excited!) My 13-year-old daughter is also working for the new class artwork for IEH2. My wife with our baby is drawing the new world map for IEH2 too. All of us are very active to develop our game with hapiwaku! Anyway thank you as always for supporting us a lot! Please look forward to the future updates! :D Let's join our Discord Community and chat with us! - Discord Community - Hapiwaku Website

IEB Collaboration Event! Added : Collaboration Event between IEH and IEB. Fixed : Other minor bugs We have just released the new Idle game Incremental Epic Breakers ! To commemorate this, we hold a collaboration event! (The period is undecided) Play IEB and earn bonus points according to your completed # of IEB's Steam Achievement. You can purchase various bonus upgrades with them. You can access it through "Event" button in System tab. Push "Load IEB data" button and your save data is applied through Cloud Save. IEB has also the same event so you can receive bonus upgrades in IEB with your IEH data. :) Thank you as always for continued support! We will keep developing and improving our games much more! :D

Added : New Alchemy for 100KL, 1ML, 10ML and 100ML Balanced : Decreased the cost of Monster Fluid and Red Chilis for Monster Energy, Spicy Potion, Resource Water and Nitro Potion in Alchemy. Fixed : "Curse of Metal" now works correctly Fixed : Display bugs and minor bugs

Added : Three new Curse of Reincarnation (Road of Warrior 3, Road of Wizard 3, Road of Angel 3) Added : New Hidden Mission Milestone (325&350) Added : Chinese and Japanese translations for Slime Bank Balanced : Buffed the spawn chance of Purple Devil Fish in every wave of Area 7-5 so that you can complete the mission easier. Balanced : Buffed a bit alchemy point stats Fixed : Display bugs and typos Thank you as always for enjoying IEH! :D We are so glad to see you excited at our game! We keep developing to improve IEH more and more :) We are currently working for a major update, which we will soon announce the detail about it! Please look forward to it XD

Added : A toggle that limits FPS at 60 while Challenge - You can more easily avoid Challenge Boss's attacks with it! Added : Chinese Translations for skills and upgrades Added : Japanese Translations for skill passives Balanced : While Metal Curse of Rein, the hero level is now limited up to 1000. Fixed : Display bugs and minor bugs

Bonus Code on Steam! Fixed : All the current bonus codes are now available on Steam. Please input these bonus codes in the system tab. - "IEHhapiwaku" - "IEHmonthlycontest" - "IEHhapiwakuMay" - "IEHhapiwakuJune" - "IEHhapiwakuJuly" - "IEHhapiwakuAugust" - "IEHhapiwakuSeptember" - "IEHhapiwakuOctober" - "IEHsteam" Fixed : Always gained core when you defeated challenge boss Fixed : Typos and display bugs Added : Chinese Translation for materials

Added : Chinese Translation (Though it is still a part of the game so far we will add more in the future) Fixed : Display bugs and typos

Hotfix Fixed : You can't go hidden area while metal curse Fixed : Mission Milestone now works in Hidden Area Fixed : Display bugs in missions and exp upgrad Fixed : Display bugs in craft tooltips.

MAJOR UPDATE STEAM LAUNCH !!! Added : Hidden Areas, which is unleashed when you complete Area 8-1 Added : Hidden Mission Milestone Added : New Curse "Explorer's Nightmare" Added : New Curse "Metal Curse" Added : New Epic Store Stuffs in Ambition 3 Added : Cloud Save comes back again! Added : New BGM! (So please turn it on again :D) Added : Japanese Translation! (Currently, only a few part of them are translated, but future updates will do rest of all) Balanced : Banana is now available for monsters only when your DPS exceeds 1% of their HP. Balanced : Buffed Fox Coat in Craft Balanced : Buffed Iron Hero Sword in Craft Balanced : Divine Stance damage increasements is reduced at lv 1500 and above Fixed and Balanced : Area 8-8 Mission Fixed : Scale Ring bug Fixed : Removed Skill Level Cap Fixed : Favorite Equip display Fixed : Mission Milestone 375 and 384 Fixed : Hold wing's stance check triggered on activation allowing multiple activations per second through repeated clicks Fixed : Dodge text now counts as a damage text (you can now disable dodge text too) Fixed : Negative Reputation Increasing by Reincarnation Upgrade Fixed : Other minor bugs Hotfix Fixed : DLC is now available! Fixed : Curse "Explorer's Nightmare" display bug Added : Bonus Code "IEHsteam" There was a bug that DLCs are freely distributed for all players when downloading the game. This bug is now fixed and accidental distribution is removed. For those who purchased premium upgrades in Epic Store with the free Epic Coins before fixing, the negative Epic Coins bug occurs until you gain enough Epic Coins to raise up to positive amount. You can gain Epic Coins through playing the game and purchasing in Epic Store or DLCs. (DLCs are now available.) We added a bonus code "IEHsteam" which gives you 1000 Epic Coins for apologize. Please input this bonus code in System tab.

There was an issue for DLC just after releasing. Then we fixed it and DLC is now available! We apologize for the inconvenience caused. Anyway, thank you for enjoying our game! We are so glad to hear your wonderful feedback!