In HERO, players take the roles of adventurers who embarked on a quest to become a hero of The Land of Lacuna. Lacuna is a rugged land filled with opportunity, a brave adventurer can prove themselves by completing quests, defeating foes, from goblins to fearsome ogres, farming cattle, fishing, trading, sinking pirate ships and more. Each player assembles and equips their own army, hiring various warriors from archers to knights to the powerful wizard. All of them have one goal in mind: to become the most heroic!

 

HERO is a deck-building board game. Each player starts with the same combination of cards – this is your deck. You then use the cards to move your army, fight battles, complete tasks and to purchase new and better cards. These new cards are added to your deck to improve it, allowing you to adventure further, and face tougher foes.

 

The game ends when the last 'Event' card has been completed, all players add up their acquired tokens to find out who is the most heroic.​​​