88 Heroes

About

88 Heroes is a frenetic 2D platformer where you guide a growing squad of bizarre superheroes through 88 chaotic rooms. Each level cleared or life lost adds a new character, each with unique quirks and abilities. You have 88 minutes to dismantle Dr. H8's doomsday plan before thermo-nuclear warheads launch. Managing your roster is key, some heroes climb walls, float, or seem to exist only to complicate your life. The game thrives on escalating chaos. As your team grows, so does the difficulty, coordinating 88 heroes turns simple jumps into disasters. Absurd character designs (think “Poopman,” “Captain Flamingo”) mix with tight platforming. Community feedback highlights the steep curve but praises the addictive loop of failure and progress. Over 10,000 hours logged on Steam at peak, it’s a cult favorite for fans of high-stakes, humorously absurd action.

Storyline

8 minutes past 8 on the 8th August 1988, the world teeters on the brink of total annihilation! Dr. H8's demands are simple. Pay 88 octillion dollars within 88 hours or 88 thermo-nuclear warheads pointed directly at earth will be launched. The 88th president of earth calls for urgent crisis talks! 88 leaders from 88 countries around the world are summoned to the Octo-office. With the planet bankrupt, paying the ransom is not an option. Only one possible course of action is left to take. Infiltrate Dr. H8's evil super lairs and retrieve the 8 digit coordinates to locate his space base and destroy it once and for all! Only a team of superheroes so daring, so heroic, SO STUPID!?? could possibly pull this off! BUT WHO? “POWERBOTS”? - low on battery. “SOLAR NINJAS”? - no work visa's. “DINO-RANGERS”? - extinct! Desperate times call for desperate measures! A reluctant call goes out.. DAMMIT! they're available! THE “88 HEROES” - eighty-eight of the strangest and seemingly most pointless superheroes ever to grace the face of the earth. "THEY CALLED THE BEST, BUT THE BEST WERE BUSY!"