Returning soon

Heroes who would rather not.

A 16-bit endless runner about running away with style. Dodge the lasers, outpace the minotaur, collect what you can, and see how long your nerve holds out. Playable now on itch.io while it finds its way back to the stores.

Play on itch.io Watch the trailer

Cowardly Heroes was released on Google Play and is currently delisted while we focus on Pinteza. The build on itch.io is the full game, free.

The trailer

Ninety seconds of running away

Screenshots

Pixels, lasers, and poor decisions

Cowardly Heroes: Epic enemies — **Epic enemies**A minotaur with an axe, and no plan that involves fighting it.

Cowardly Heroes: Dodge everything — **Dodge everything**Lasers, traps and whatever the invasion sends next.

Cowardly Heroes: Progressive levels — **Progressive levels**The road gets meaner the longer your nerve holds.

Cowardly Heroes: Collect on the run — **Collect on the run**Coins fund the characters you have not unlocked yet.

Cowardly Heroes: Unlockable heroes — **Unlockable heroes**Each one panics in its own particular way.

About the game

The first one

Cowardly Heroes was the studio's first released game: a pixel-art arcade runner built around a simple joke. Heroes who are, in every meaningful sense, cowards. You do not fight the alien invasion. You run from it, gracefully, for as long as you can manage.

It shipped with progressive levels, unlockable characters, power-ups, daily rewards, leaderboards and achievements, and it taught the studio most of what it now knows about shipping something rather than polishing it forever.

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Fact sheet

TitleCowardly Heroes
DeveloperIris Edge Studios
PlatformAndroid
GenreArcade / Endless runner
PriceFree
StatusDelisted from Google Play, playable on itch.io
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