Reviews

• 

  Mr. Boogie

  Jun 6, 2022

  Well... same old, same old. Another Time Management game of the 12 Labours of Hercules series. The graphics are decent and so is the music. The story is nothing special. No bugs or crashes. Runs fine on Win 7. Overall, entertaining and relaxed. This particular chapter in the saga is easier to complete, except for the defeating of the developer's time achievement, which is unfair and contrary to the spirit of an otherwise casual game. Jet Dogs should use the janitor's best time instead or something. Anyway, if you're not much into the achievements thing, you likely gonna have some fun. It includes cards. Don't expect anything innovative, this one is basically the same thing as the past ones. People like repetition, though, so this will do.
• 

  Fox Mulder

  Jun 18, 2016

  It's fun and addicting as the others Hercules games. I'm a big fan of the series, glad to play another chapter of it! It's a nice catch if you're an achievment/perfect games hunter or just wanna spare some time. It also has a very kind and nice story, with nice drawings, recommended for kids too.
• 

  Yiasmat

  Jun 19, 2016

  The amazing Casual returns I´ve played all the 12 Labours of Hercules games and i can say that while all of them are great, this one is my favourite entry so far. It basically has everything great about all the games in the series, meaning that the mechanics work perfectly, the levels are clever designed and diverse and the art is amazing making the levels fun to play and objects on the screen clearly stand out. Were the fifth installment really shines tho, is that the developer finally made some difficult levels meaning that, for the first time (for me) you have to work to get the gold times. I usually get gold at my first few tries and normally that comes with beating the developer score too, but finally i am getting silver and bronze medals all over the place with seemingly impossible gold times. I think a challenge is what this game needed, after all those who don´t want it can still just play the game, but being a casual game shouldn´t mean that everything is easy to get. As always i will be looking forward to the next chapter of hecules epic quest as this series is easily the best in its genre...
• 

  cheapdatekate

  Jun 21, 2016

  Lives up to the standard set by the other games. Excellent addition to the series. More of the same, and that's a good thing.
• 

  faeriepatch

  Jul 11, 2016

  I have all the 12 Labours of Hercules games. They are among my favourite games and played many, many times. However, The Kids of Heelas is a total disapointment. Its just a constant round of gathering suplies by the hundreds with very little game play or stategy at all. Its worse than most farming games. I will stop playing before I finish and it will sit in the library gathering dust. Go play earlier games from this series. Those I reccommend. This one is one to avoid.
• 

  Vic=HKC=

  Jul 13, 2016

  You would think that the Gods learned their lessons to let Hercules in peace. But Ares had to ask our hero to help him in a war. And as Hercules refused, the God of War decided to turn all the kids of Hellas into an army of zombies. Hercules, Megara and all their friends will have to save the children and to return them home... with the servants doing all the work as usual. It's already the fifth episode in Hercules's life. Nothing really changed in terms of gameplay. Allow me to paste a text I've made for the profile of the previous games on Neoseeker (inspired mainly by my reviews). The game has three difficulties: Casual (without timer and without score kept), Normal (with a timer and with score) and Expert (with a timer that goes faster and with score). The goal is to finish the level by reaching objectives given (in time if you're playing in Normal or Expert). You're sending workers to clean or repair the road, to gather ressources (food, wood, gold) whether they're outside or being produced, to build buildings (farm for food, workshop for wood, mine for gold, outposts for expanding the inventory and to stock faster resources). During the course of your adventure, you may be helped by other mythological figures like Pegasus. Generally, before being able to use them for specific tasks (Pegasus can make rocks fall down, the Lion is taking pieces of meat, Medusa is scaring Minotaurs and Cerberus is doing the same task but for ghosts for example). You can also exchange gold for floating ressources with Charon. Also, you can get favors from Gods by building poles in their honor: Demeter will make ressources being produced faster, Hephaistos that will make your servants work faster, Apollon will scare every robber, Hermes will make your workers run faster, etc. Robbers are also returning: if you leave your ressources unattended for a certain period of time, thieves will steal them. Hercules and Megara are still there: the former for moving boulders or other specific tasks, like saving the children, the latter for growing fruit trees and clean the soil. New allies are also revealed as sellers: for example, they can sell 2 gold for 3 wood. The search for puzzles pieces is also included, to unlock a jigsaw puzzle that will do the same for bonus levels. While the first levels can be done easily without bonus, later, you can activate some if the energy bar reachs it: work faster (ressources appear faster and workers are doing their tasks faster), run faster (workers see their speed increased when running from a task to another), stop time (timer is frozen), more ressources (each ressource gathered is giving one more), temporary worker (one more worker will help). These bonus are limited in time and are resplenished. Their place in the bar is varying from a level to another. Children can be used to retrieve more energy for the bonus bar. Are you still with me? Ok, I'm just checking if you didn't run away from that long description. Let's focus on the other points. The graphics didn't change at all, they're still colorful and nice. The soundtrack is also identical. As usual, 12 Labours of Hercules isn't a big surprise: apart for the children and the new allies, nothing is really different. However, if I'm writing a late review, it's simply because I was waiting for a fix for an achievement that didn't work. Indeed, the only level with thieves was impossible to realize the anti-theft achievement because ressources were at the other end of the map, with rocks and bridges to repair. Now, since two days, they've added thieves in other levels (like 4.4) and since then, everything is working fine. Should you purchase this game? If you're a fan of the series, you're not going to miss it. I'm recommending it to every player out there that wants to try casual time management games. But, true, while the rest of the series is cheaper, the five bucks I've spent are five bucks well spent. I've still enjoyed greatly this new episode and I'm pretty sure that many people will keep it like that.
• 

  Krazedlion

  Jul 26, 2016

  12 Labours of Hercules V: Kids of Hellas is the fifth in the 12 Labours resource/time management strategy game series by Jetdogs. Hercules, along with Megara, must rescue the kids and take them home. Its basically the same as the previous games in the series, except they added an inventory limit with a little annoying ring when you have too much. Some of the levels are just ridiculously easy, other levels almost impossible to get all 3 stars, but I did. This is my least favorite of the series. If this had been the first I would have not bought another in the series. Hopefully if they make another, it will be more balanced and without the annoying inventory limit. I would give this a 5/10 MEH
• 

  bigh XCX

  Aug 22, 2016

  [h1]"Spoiled kids with confetti & and gifts"[/h1] The 12 Labours of Hercules V: Kids of Hellas continues the story of newly on Steam introduced series of casual time-management flashgames. It has cute and colorful 2.5D graphics and a lovely entertaining soundtrack (one song really sounds like Greek). Placed in the ancient Greek mythology you accomplish many tasks in even 50 challenging levels, 5 bonus levels and 1 Superbonuslevel. You will buildup your own home castle of many pieces during the level proccess. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=749649966 Didn't expect a part five. But now it is there I must play it. It follows the scheme like the last part: No bossfights but 55 levels, The specials are this time: kids collect presents out of your way, Midas turns a Mecha Golem into gold resources and many different types of cross resource traders. No global leaderboards again. Guess this series will never end as long as they can use the same prototype for each of their games. And the achievements are still confusing like solve 4 jigsaw puzzles but there are 5 worlds and 5 puzzles. Or use the speedup powerup but not mentioned in conjunction with the buildup Hermes obelisk.
• 

  psenough

  Aug 27, 2016

  nice casual game. exactly the same as the previous installments (just different levels). full game ain't more then 10 hours.
• 

  Blackpot

  Sep 2, 2016

  The story continues. More maps, same music, same quests. And children. More difficult than the others.
• 

  Marcelloz071

  Sep 2, 2016

  [H1]Little Hercules[/H1] Rating : 6/10 More of the same. If you liked the previous ones, you gonna like this. But now with kiddies and a happy Hercules that juggles balls. Sounds and gfx are the same as before so pretty ok, not mind blowing. Not bad, but not good also. Just med.
• 

  talgaby

  Oct 3, 2016

  [h1]Short version: 79%[/h1] The fifth instalment of the 12 Labours of Hercules series feels more like an expansion pack rather than a new game, but it manages to deliver the fun time management gameplay this series is famous for. [h1]Long version:[/h1] As all longer series, 12 Labours of Hercules has its ups and downs. Lucky for us, even the downs result in enjoyable time management games, including the current subject, Kids of Hellas. Similarly to Girl Power, this one didn’t touch the game mechanics too much: you still use 2-4 servants to gather resources and spend them on clearing obstacles, with Hercules and Megara helping out every now and then. Whereas all games up until now asked the player to find the best order of actions to meet the level goals, Kids of Hellas decided to simplify the level layouts considerably: conveniently placed production buildings, the almost total absence of thieves, or the removal of cost on the actions performed by Hercules and Megara are all there to make the player’s life easier. …And the re-introduced stockpile limit makes sure that all these changes mean nothing when the player constantly has to manage the resource levels, making sure to not gather more than it can be held, nor to spend them faster than they are acquired. While this new focus on micromanagement possibly will alienate some of the returning players, Kids of Hellas is still enjoyable enough for anyone already familiar with the series to give them a try.
• 

  Ithaqua

  Nov 16, 2016

  [h1]2¢ Review [/h1] [table] [tr][th]Game Name:[/th][th] 12 Labours of Hercules V: Kids of Hellas [/th][/tr] [tr] [th]Original Release:[/th] [th] 17 June 2016 [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]My Overall Grade (#/10): [/th] [th] 5 [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]Demo: [/th] [th] No [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]Workshop: [/th] [th] No [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]Level Editor: [/th] [th] No [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]Captions: [/th] [th] No [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]Controller Support: [/th][th] No [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]Multiplayer: [/th] [th] No [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]VR Support: [/th] [th] No [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]Steam Cards / Achieves: [/th] [th] Yes / Yes [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]VAC: [/th] [th] No [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]Genre: [/th] [th] Kids, strategy [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]Manual: [/th] [th] No [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]Walkthrough: [/th] [th] Yes [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th] Savegame Editor / Cheats: [/th] [th] No [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]Active Community / Mods:[/th] [th] No [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]Full Audio Multi Language: [/th] [th] English [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]Win 10 / Crapple / Linux: [/th] [th] Yes / Yes / Yes [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]Recommended To: [/th] [th] Kids who want to learn strategy games [/th] [/tr] [tr] [th]Other: [/th] [th] If you’ve played the rest, you may want to skip this one. I don’t know if the Devs are running out of ideas but this is definitely the weakest of the series. The graphics are as good as ever, but the puzzles can be done with little to no thought and virtually no consequences for picking the wrong path. I like the portals and the trade NPCs but the game gets very repetitive half way through. The job ques need to be deeper, I like the increased inventory depth in several levels but it needs to be brought up to 100 units not 50 or 20. 1 Thief level and bad placement make that achievement a bit tough. Wait till it’s on sale and grab it then. And let’s hope the next version adds enough to bring the interesting back to the game, instead of the bland. [/th] [/tr] [/table] [h1]1¢ Review [/h1] Pro: Graphics Cards Con: Repetitive Push: Overall: 5/10 +1 graphics -1 repetitive = 5/10 Only grab it on sale if you like the rest of the series.
• 

  Jacaletto

  May 21, 2017

  I bought this game for only 40p and boy was I impressed. For a classic path-based time management game, it worked wonders. The game itself sticks to a set storyline throghout, with themes in every level and cutscenes to match. The whole dynamic suits the story, and the theme of the game - with each level providing a structured and stratified way about playing while still sticking to the key themes. The game itself flows really nicely, with progressions of difficilty and a simple GUI to not overcmpliate things. Some levels are challenging to complete in good time but that ads to the difficulty of the game - to achieve all achievements it took a fair few hours, and as an expirieced time management game player I can tell you that this was definitely worth it. I thoroughly enjoyed every momnent, achieving the harder achivements involving thieves and developers records was fun and rewarding and the final moment when you achieve them all is simply so satisfying its unbelieveable. I really enjoyed this game, and for 40p how could you say no?
• 

  bob loblaw

  Jun 27, 2017

  Strategy clicker. Nice casual game, can be finished in a couple of hours, but you can also make it challenging and replay it to get all the achievements. It's part of a series of pretty much the same games, the first 5 at least are very similar. Overall fun and enjoyable, well worth the money.
• 

  Ayuri

  Dec 27, 2017

  Kids of Hellas : the fifth game of the Hercules series. The concept still works : a real-time casual game with resource management made of several levels with specific goals (collect x gold, save x kids and open x gifs, kill the minotaurs, etc.). Let your servants gather wood, food and gold, build some constructions such as farms and mines and help them remove obstacles thanks to Hercules, Megara, Cerberus or even Medusa. Fortunately the portal system is back, there are hidden objects to collect again and puzzle pieces to unlock additional levels. The story is about creepy kids this time, as Ares decides to create a zombified army by using enchanted toys. Your goal is, as always, to foil the sinister plans of the Gods by destroying the factory and saving the children in the process. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=722277949 This fifth game feels a bit easier than its predecessor, however, it remains enjoyable if you're familiar with 12 Labours of Hercules. If you're looking for a casual and mostly easy game, yet entertaining with a relaxing soundtrack, or even just to kill time, Kids of Hellas will do the job, especially given that the game is regularly on sale. There are 23 achievements to get and trading cards to acquire by playing for collectors and achievement hunters.
• 

  Thalatte™

  Mar 7, 2018

  [b][u]Game Information[/u][/b] "12 Labours of Hercules: Kids of Hellas" Platinum Edition is a Strategy game. The game was developed by JetDogs Studios & Zoomout Games and published by JetDogs Studios. "Kids of Hellas" is the fifth episode of "12 Labours of Hercules." Previous episodes: "12 Labours of Hercules;" "The Cretan Bull;" "Girl Power" and "Mother Nature." Since this is a platinum edition game, it comes with extra features that are not available in its counterpart; the standard edition. [b][u]The Game Review[/u][/b] Game Visuals I want to mention that the visuals in the game are well done. The visuals can be adjusted in the game's option menu. Game Audio I want to mention that audio for the game is well done. Even though the audio is somewhat simplistic and repetitive. The audio can be adjusted in the game's option menu as well. Gameplay This is a strategy game, where careful planning is required, due to the limited amount of resources that are available. The game has five episodes with ten levels each. Plus a bonus level for each episode. All together there are fifty-five levels. There are three game difficulty modes: Relaxed; Casual and Expert. The difference between these game difficulty modes: timer speed and scoring. In relaxed mode there is no timer and scoring. In casual mode there is a timer and scoring, but the timer is slow to drain and scoring is low. In expert mode there is a timer and scoring, but the timer drains rather quickly and scoring is much higher. The star rating depends on a couple of factors: How fast the level was completed. How much resources are leftover. This only applies to the casual and expert mode. The star rating system: Three Stars (Gold;) Two Stars (Silver) and One Star (Bronze.) There is an opportunity to replay all the levels for better score and star rating. There are a few special bonuses: Freeze Time; Worker Movement; Worker Speed; Additional Worker and Additional Resources. All of these special bonuses have a time limit. But they can be used once the bar has been filled up. These bonuses are extremely useful when the game is being played on expert mode. The palace building structure upgrades when all the levels are completed in gold record time. There are twenty-three different achievements that can be unlocked from playing the game. Each of these achievements does come with some requirements that need to be completed before they can be unlocked. Miscellaneous There are twelve different wallpapers. They can be accessed through the game's main menu screen. There are ten different trading cards to collect. Only four of those trading cards are given out by the game. There are several ways to get the rest of the trading cards: Purchased from the Steam's Community Market; Trade with friends; Booster Packs and its Booster Pack Creator. Final thoughts: I have found the game enjoyable to a certain extent. The replay value for the game is low. I would recommend this game, but not at the game's full price value.
• 

  SizroSpunkmire

  Jun 28, 2018

  First game from the Labours of Hercules series that bored me to tears. While it's identical to all the other games, many of the maps are poorly designed and only offer a single resource like wood or gold in one location but require 10+ stacks multiple times in a row to proceed. You'll find yourself sitting there with nothing to do except wait for one resource to spawn repeatedly. Skip this title and move onto the next one.
• 

  Kosmozuikis

  May 5, 2020

  [h1]Need more cheese![/h1] A fun casual game like the previous ones. Sure it's simple and is a mobile game but it's fun. And it can get pretty tense on some levels, especially when you're trying to beat developers score record. You complete levels by gathering resources to complete a given task. Gathering wood, food and gold. Each material is used to upgrade your tent or other facilities to give you more resources. You also use resources to destroy obstacles. Pretty simple. Just click click and click fast. It also requires some time management and planning few steps ahead. Levels are are diverse. Yes you repeat same actions again and again but different levels requires a slightly different approach so the game doesn't get boring to the very end. There's achievements and I find this one easiest so far which I love. These games are casual, they don't need a huge challenge, they should be relaxing. But i must it requires some concentration. Graphics are pretty, map design is good. Not much to say. Performance? lol Potato&toaster friendly. Get this if you love casual games, it's one of the few good ones. [b]Pros[/b] [list] [*]Great level design [*]Fun [*]Cute [/list] [b]Cons[/b] [list] [*]- [/list] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32930811-Kosmos%27s-Cosmic-reviews/?appid=704030][h1]Follow my curator page for more[/h1][/url]
• 

  MissDefi

  Jul 18, 2021

  Heck yeah I would recommend this game. I tried to get all achievements but 10 times beating the Dev's score..lol..how? He is THEE reincarnate of Hercules! I do like a challenge though lol. Anyways, I would give this game 10/10. <3