Slime Heroes

Mission briefing

Slime Heroes is a fast top-down survival arcade game for 1–4 players. Control slime heroes, defeat enemy waves, and collect upgrade cards to create powerful builds. Each run brings fresh ability combinations, artifact chests, and tougher foes. Play solo or team up with friends in online co-op and survive for as long as you can.

Field manual

Choose a slime hero, defeat enemy waves, collect experience, and pick upgrade cards to build powerful ability combinations. Open artifact chests and survive increasingly challenging battles, solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players. Desktop: Move with WASD or the arrow keys. Press Space to dash and Esc to pause. Attacks use auto-aim by default. Press Shift to switch between auto-aim and manual aiming. You can also left-click to aim at the cursor and right-click to return to auto-aim. Use number keys 1–4 for manual abilities. Mobile: Play in landscape orientation. Use the left joystick to move, tap the dash button to dash, and touch and drag on the right side of the screen to aim manually. Use the on-screen buttons for manual abilities.

Launch orders: press Launch mission above and the game loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first move. It is designed for a landscape (wide) screen and takes its orders from mouse, keyboard or touch, depending on the mission. It is built wide, for a landscape screen — rotate a phone sideways, or give it a tablet or monitor to stretch out on. If it offers a fullscreen control, use it — a fight this size deserves the whole screen.

Field notes for action operations

• First run is reconnaissance. Spend it learning where the danger actually spawns from instead of chasing a score — most action games announce their patterns honestly in the opening minute, then repeat them with worse manners.
• Movement is a defensive stat. A moving target at half health outlives a stationary one at full health in nearly every game on this board, so keep relocating between shots, strikes and reloads.
• Learn the exit before the entrance closes. In arena and chase games alike, the players who survive longest are the ones who noticed the second doorway while everyone else was watching the first.

Slime Heroes — questions from the ranks

What does it cost to play Slime Heroes?

Nothing at all. The mission is free from the first order to the last — no sign-up, no download, no paid tier guarding the good levels. The advertising around this page is what keeps the board free.

What sort of mission is Slime Heroes?

Slime Heroes is filed in our Action theatre. Like every operation on this board, it is a browser game — read the briefing above for the publisher's own account of what you are deploying into.

Can I run Slime Heroes on a phone or tablet?

Yes. It plays in the browser on phones and tablets exactly as it does on a computer. It is built wide, for a landscape screen — rotate a phone sideways, or give it a tablet or monitor to stretch out on.

Do I have to install anything before playing?

No installation of any kind. Slime Heroes is an HTML5 game: press the launch button and it loads on this page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind.

After-action

Mission complete, or still pinned down? The full Action theatre is one click away — The main hall of the board: 469 operations where something is always moving, exploding, escaping or being chased. If a game has a pulse and a problem, it is probably filed here.