It has been a while since I have played a game which is so easy to just sit down and play as Hoard is. A quick play through of both tutorial levels and you know 
everything there is to know about the game, and even without playing through these it wouldn’t take you very long to pick it up. Essentially, you are a dragon whose sole task is to burn, kill and pillage the surrounding area, collecting gold as you go.
The controls are equally as simple, the left stick to move and the right stick to fire, literally in this case. Admittedly, therein lies my first problem with the game, your dragon cannot breath fire and move at the same time. It seems a fairly simple concept to implement, and one which this game could benefit greatly from, but that said, you quickly learn to live with the limitations and just get on with setting everything in sight on fire.
There’s essentially three game modes to play around in, each with their own goals:
Treasure, a simple go for gold race where you have to destroy as much as you can and gather up the rewards.
Princess Rush, a race between two or more dragons where you must kidnap a certain number of princesses before your opponents.
Survival where you’ve got to last out as long as you can against a barrage of assault.
There’s also a purported fourth mode thrown in there but that’s essentially a co-op version of the single player Treasure, but that’s not much fun and you’ll probably only play through those levels for the medals, if at all.
