Before anything else
Protect your save
The game will not warn you about any of this. Players lose weeks of progress to it every day.
Link your account first
The game starts everyone on a guest account and never says so. Players have lost 300-level saves to a reinstall, a crash, and a phone dying mid-session. After a reinstall there is no login screen; you sign back in through the Link Account section, and if you never linked, the save is gone.
Two players reported that pressing Link Account itself reset their progress. That's a reason to link on day one, when a reset costs an hour, not a reason to never link. Your Player ID only appears once you're linked.
One device only
There is no live sync. The developer has said linking exists only to move a save to a new device. Players who split time between a phone and PC (Google Play Games works; some emulators do, BlueStacks reportedly white-screens) end up with two divergent saves. If you must move: log out of the device with less progress first, and the device with more progress last, so the better save is the one that uploads.
AFK the way the game expects
Nothing happens while the app is closed. "AFK farming" means leaving the game open on auto-hunt with the screen on. Players who do it nightly: brightness all the way down, low power mode on, phone on the charger, parked at a spot where your lifesteal or wand healing outpaces incoming damage. Level-up milestones pause farming until you tap to claim, so expect a stall if you level overnight. Overheating is a known issue the developer has acknowledged.
Ads
- Angel's Blessing (the ad buffs) caps at 50%. Keep it maxed.
- The paid "no ads" products don't do what the name suggests. One removes forced ads only; the other gives a handful of reward-ad skips per day (originally 5, later reduced). Reward ads remain either way.
- Airplane mode, or cutting the app's mobile data and Wi-Fi, removes ads for most of the game. The shop and Invasion need a connection.
The partial reset bug
Open for at least six months as of September 2026. Symptoms: main level drops sharply, all currencies and materials vanish, the smithy locks at level 1 and won't upgrade, and chests stop spawning, which stalls the quest chain (the Chapter 2 to 3 door never opens). Heroes, weapons, upgrades and the collection book usually survive. Reported triggers: the phone dying mid-play, the traits update, reinstalling while unlinked, and the clock exploit below. Support replies are form letters. There is no known fix; linking early limits the damage.
Hero frozen at camp
Since the mid-August update, some players' heroes stand at the bonfire and won't move or attack. The bug seems tied to boss raids. Workarounds that have cleared it for at least one player each:
- Enter a boss raid, even if you lose, then exit.
- Castle, boss raid, shop, exchange, weapon chest key exchange, get the error, exit.
- Open the boss raid rewards screen.
- Play one PvP match.
- Switch characters, or enter the tower and come back.
- Log out and back in; keep dragging the movement circle while the map loads.
Don't touch the clock exploit
Changing the device clock to respawn bosses and refresh dailies is widely known and widely regretted. Players who tried it once report waking up to a level-60 reset with all resources gone, and boss timers of around 200 hours once the clock goes back. The developer has said clock-manipulation countermeasures are in preparation and that flagged accounts are already being actioned. Anyone offering to "show you the method" in chat is not doing you a favor.
Community-sourced, not official. Compiled from player reports in the XP Hero Discord and last checked 4 Sep 2026 against game v25.3.0. Balance changes ship often; if something here no longer matches the game, it's probably the guide that's stale. XP Hero is made by Supercent, Inc.; this guide is not affiliated with them.