Watch how Has Been Heroes’ zany lane-based combat works

Trine developer Frozenbyte is about to release its next game in April, and it’s a difficult game to understand in screenshots. So let’s take some time to explain what it’s all about.

Has Been Heroes is due out April 4 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC. It’s a roguelike (where you don’t have persistent progress from one session to the next and your foes take an action each time you take one) with strategy action where your goal is to control a team of three heroes in their quest to take twin princesses to school. You are trying to maximize your skills to get as far as possible during one of your runs until you are able to complete that task. In the moment-to-moment combat, your goal is to prevent waves of enemies from reaching the princesses. You do that by attacking with your characters, which will knock back and eventually kill the villainous hordes. But the challenge comes in the form of managing which lane your heroes should stand in while successfully using their special powers.