Heros: The Sanguine Seven

About

Heros: The Sanguine Seven is a DOS platformer where you pick from seven heroes to tackle 50 levels of villain-slaying chaos. Each character has distinct abilities and flaws, requiring different strategies to navigate hazards, defeat enemies, and collect gems that boost stats. Health comes from grabbing fruit scattered through levels, adding a resource management layer to the side-scrolling action. The city of Megalopolis is under siege by escaped supervillains, and your goal is straightforward: clear stages, upgrade your hero, and stop the bad guys before they wreck everything. The game leans into classic Apogee-style EGA-era design with its chunky pixel art and straightforward mechanics. Seven heroes and 50 levels offer decent replay value, especially with stat upgrades changing how characters perform. While the story is thin, just a standard jailbreak gone wrong, the focus stays on the grind of progressing through levels, collecting upgrades, and mastering each hero’s quirks. It’s a no-frills platformer that prioritizes repetitive but functional gameplay over polish, appealing to fans of early 90s DOS action titles.

Storyline

The story line in Heros is relatively simple: a jail break has occurred and five of the most notorious outcasts have escaped. These five escapees have eluded authorities successfully, recruited many villains into their army of mass terror and destruction, and have wreaked havoc all over the city of Megalopolis. The villains seem unstoppable, as the police force has failed over and over again to bring the band of bad buddies to justice. As a last resort, a team of super heroes are summoned in an attempt to restore justice in the once proud city of Megalopolis.