Battle Healer Hildegard
What is Battle Healer Hildegard?
Battle Healer Hildegard is a top-down roguelike healing game. The player controls a healer who supports knights, saves fleeing villagers, earns coin, buys knights, upgrades the keep, and chooses new spells while leveling.
Battle Healer Hildegard is a top-down roguelike healing game from Funday Games. The player takes the role of a support character rather than a tank or DPS, casting healing or transmutation spells to aid knights and save villagers moving toward the keep. Saving villagers and slaying monsters earns coin, which buys knights and upgrades the keep. Each run offers different abilities and spells on level up, with new spells at levels 3, 6, and 9. The game combines roguelike and tower defense elements and is in early development.
How to play Battle Healer Hildegard
- Control Hildegard with WASD and place spells with the mouse.
- Click and hold the left mouse button to cast spells.
- Use healing or transmutation spells to support knights and save villagers fleeing toward the keep.
- Save villagers and slay monsters to earn coin, then spend coin to buy knights and upgrade the keep.
- Level up to choose from different abilities and spells; new spells arrive at levels 3, 6, and 9.
- Press E to drink potions or open the shop, use number keys 1-4 for the active healer ability, and press and hold Space by the city gate to start or end a phase.
Battle Healer Hildegard controls
Controls are taken from the developer's itch.io page.
Tips for Battle Healer Hildegard
- Saving villagers and slaying monsters both bring coin, so both matter during a run.
- Coin can buy knights and upgrade the keep, giving two ways to strengthen the defense.
- Spell choices vary by run, so plan around the new spells gained at levels 3, 6, and 9.
- Use Space at the city gate to control when enemy wave attacks start and stop.
- Press E for potions and shop access when needed.
Battle Healer Hildegard FAQ
What is the player's role?
The player controls Hildegard, a healer who supports knights and saves villagers instead of acting as the tank or DPS character.
How does the player gain new spells?
New spells are gained on levels 3, 6, and 9, and each run presents different abilities and spells on level up.
What is coin used for?
Saving villagers and slaying monsters brings in coin, which is spent to buy knights and upgrade the keep.
How are enemy waves controlled?
Press and hold Space by the city gate to start or end a phase, which stops and starts enemy wave attacks.
About this game
Read the full developer description
You're a legendary support character
In this game, you're not the tank, or DPS character - you're the healer. This is a top-down roguelike healing game. Cast powerful healing or transmutation spells to support your knights, and save the villagers fleeing towards your keep.
Toss a coin to your healer
Saving villagers and slaying monsters brings in coin. You spend coin to buy knights and upgrade your keep.
Grow your healing power
In this roguelike you get to upgrade your supporter class powers. Each run will present different abilities and spells when you level up. You gain new spells on level 3, 6 and 9.
Controls
Mouse & Keyboard: Control Hildegard (player character) with WASD, place spells with mouse, click-and-hold left mouse button to cast spells
E: Press 'E' button to drink potions and to open shop
Number Keys (1-4): Pick Active Healer Ability
Space: Press and hold by city gate to start/end phase (stops and starts enemy wave attacks)From the team
We wanted to make something that is all about healing. Playing a support character can be a lot of fun, but can feel a bit like an afterthought in some games. The experiment is to put the healer front and center and combine it with roguelike and tower defense elements.
The game is still in early development, so there will definitely be small janky bits here and there, but we are quite happy with the result. It flips the action tower defense premise a bit on it's head, and you get to cast a bunch of spells!
We hope you have fun with it! Do you think we are missing any important spells?
Let us know in the comments and feel free to ask us anything.
/Martin & Mette
Description from Battle Healer Hildegard on itch.io, by Funday Games.
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Not listed by the developer: mobile support, touch controls, system requirements, multiplayer, accessibility options, language support, save or progress persistence, difficulty settings, exact run length, free-to-play status. We left these out rather than guess.