Fitness RPG: Hero health game by Shikudo combines aspects of a pedometer and an RPG to help users get fit while having fun. You can download the game for free on the Apple App or Google Play store.
Gameplay
12 years ago, the Dark Force took over Fitland. It is up to your team of heroes to save the villagers.
Gameplay involves converting your steps, which you can track with your phone or synced pedometer, into energy you can use to level up your heroes. Explore the Fitland map and battle monsters while collecting and training different heroes.
You can also collect and upgrade weapons that make your team stronger and compete with other players in the arena.
Price
You can download the game for free, but some features require in-app purchases. Subscriptions are available in addition to one-off purchases and bundles of items.
User Reviews
Fitness RPG: Hero health game currently has a 4.2 rating on the Google Play store and a 4.6 rating on the Apple App store.
Platforms
You can play Fitness RPG: Hero health game on your Android or iOS device, including the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch. You can also play on your Mac computer or Apple Vision.
Graphics
Fitness RPG: Hero health game features colorful, cartoony graphics that are simple, but get the job done. Animation during battles mostly consists of things blinking, flashing, and moving forward or backward with some additional animations for spells and abilities.
Story
The main protagonist of the story wakes up in a strange place with amnesia. A creature named Saur shows up and explains that we generate Fit Energy when we are healthy and it is the only force that can resist Dark Energy.
Our protagonist is the only one who can use Fit Energy to fight the Dark Energy. Saur takes us to see Will who tells us that our amnesia has to do with losing the Rainbow Stone, which is our power source.
When the Dark Lord took over the kingdom 12 years ago, our protagonist vanished and they found seven pieces of the Rainbow Stone. Three evil generals guard the stone pieces and we need to get them back to recover our past.
Our protagonist is the only one who can summon Fit Energy from the Fit Tower. Meanwhile, the Dark Lord has been harvesting Dark Energy from people’s bad habits.
Gameplay
The opening levels of the game serve as a tutorial that introduces you to the many currencies, characters, battle system, and how you level up in the game. Battles are simplistic affairs.
You navigate a world map and tap on an icon to start battles. You can manually tap on things during battles or run it automated, requiring no strategy or input from the player.
If you win, you get a reward, usually one or more currencies you can use to upgrade your heroes. Heroes can use a variety of equipment and special abilities that you acquire by spending the different types of currency.
Along the way, you collect additional heroes that you use to assemble your team for each battle. You can also collect rewards by looting completed stages.
Once you “cleanse” an area, it starts producing resources that you can return to collect. When you gain enough resources, you can evolve your heroes, which boosts their attributes, skills, and level caps.
Fitness Component
You need energy to continue to level up your heroes. You earn energy by recording steps on your phone or linked pedometer.
As the game progresses, you can upgrade how much energy you get for your steps. The game also offers “fit rewards” which give you resources for things such as smiling and flossing your teeth.
As you hit various step goals, you get to climb the Fit Tower, collecting rewards along the way.
Quests
There are a series of quests you can complete to earn bonuses. The quests include objectives like reaching a specific level or winning a battle.
What I Like About Fitness RPG: Hero Health Game
The main thing that drew me to the game was that it incorporates a fitness element into an RPG, which is my favorite genre of game. I like the game’s colorful graphics.
I like that you can play it on a variety of devices for free and it focuses on walking, which is a type of exercise that is accessible to many people of different fitness levels.
What I Don’t Like About Fitness RPG: Hero Health Game
Neither the gameplay nor the story is compelling to me. Tapping on things so you can tap on more things isn’t my thing and the story isn’t interesting enough to make me want to do it.
The amount of tapping you have to do to keep leveling up your character and collecting resources is tedious. There are too many resources and currencies to keep track of.
The early levels are too easy and require no strategy at all. Offering players the chance to purchase energy defeats the whole purpose of earning it by walking more and energy is pretty easy to come by as it is.
The game sends too many notifications when you aren’t playing. I’m OK with an occasional alert that whatever resource is full again, but the alerts are too frequent.
Finally, I don’t care for the judgment values that label certain behaviors as “light” and others as “dark.” It comes off as suggesting that fit people are good and everyone else is bad. Also, offering rewards for smiling makes me want to barf.
Final Thoughts on Fitness RPG: Hero Health Game
If you like casual games that involve resource collecting, you may enjoy this game. I find this type of game boring and since the gameplay component doesn’t involve fitness at all, it fails as a fitness game if you don’t want to play it since the only motivation to walk more is to earn energy to keep leveling up your characters.