Grow Heroes is a mobile game by PixelStar Games released in 2018. You play as five heroes: a Knight, an Archer, a Wizard, a Priest, and a Warrior, each with their own stat growths and skills. They walk through a dungeon and battle monsters that drop gold and bones that can be spent on level ups and upgrades. If traversing becomes too difficult, there are elemental dungeons where beating monsters grants crystals plus Rebirthing to receive keys and medals, all of which can provide further stat boosts.
This game provides examples of:
- Ad Reward: You can watch an ad to gain gems, potions, Soul Stones, or other rewards.
- Ambiguous Gender: The game does not use pronouns when referring to heroes and their designs mostly lack gender signifiers.
- Boss Warning Siren: The game shows "WARNING: BOSS" and a skull before each boss encounter.
- Cooldown: Each skill has a requirement for several seconds before it can be used again.
- Critical Hit: Each hero has a chance to perform a critical hit for additional damage. Normal/magic critical hit and damage multipliers are separate.
- Draw Aggro: Warrior's Wild Cry skill taunts all foes for 20 seconds, as indicated by the red aura and exclamation mark. This is useful since they have the highest HP growth.
- Flunky Boss: Each boss has four enemies meant to distract the heroes from attacking the main target and some extra damage.
- Gameplay Automation: The heroes fight automatically by default. You can enable automatic skill casting in the skill menu and automatic chest opening by watching an ad.
- New Game Plus: After reaching dungeon level 50, you can Rebirth to gain keys to spend on boosts for either a single hero or the team as a whole and medals to open hero skills, but this returns hero levels and dungeon level to 1.
- Premium Currency: Gems are used to purchase exclusive boosts or refill consumables. They can be received by doing quests, but they're mostly meant to be bought for real money.
- Randomly Generated Quests: You always have some quest in the top right, whether it's clearing a dungeon, killing a certain number of foes or bosses,
- Retraux: Despite being a smartphone release, the game uses pixel art and chiptune music.
- Shock and Awe: Wizard's Electronic storm skill uses a huge electrical sphere to damage all enemies.
- Squishy Wizard: The Wizard can use spells to deal good damage to enemies with Electronic storm, but they have the poorest HP growth.
