When comparing Vertical Drop Heroes HD vs Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, the Slant community recommends Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup for most people. In the question“What are the best roguelikes/roguelites on PC?” Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is ranked 8th while Vertical Drop Heroes HD is ranked 40th. The most important reason people chose Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is:
There are a few different classes available at character creation, each one has it's own abilities that are different from the others. Creating one is quite simple, which makes for a fast way to get into the game and start playing.
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Pros
Pro Lots of Unlockables
As you play, you randomly find a vendor that sells you a new character skill or passive. Certain combinations of vendor purchases will unlock a new weapon. There are a few weapons that are unlocked by you doing something specific as well.
Pro Difficulty Ramps Up
At first in each run, it is pretty easy, but gets steadily more difficult as you go on. The final boss is a toughie.
Pro There is progression between character deaths
Vendor purchases and leftover gold from a run carry over to your next character. There are three vendors in the starting area that will take your gold to upgrade starting health, weapon damage, and other things that I don't remember off-hand (sorry!).
Pro A lot of possible character builds
As you unlock more skills, passives, and weapons, your pool of possible character builds goes up exponentially. When you start a game, 3 characters are randomly generated for you from that pool. You can reroll your choices for a small cost.
Pro The Good ol' flash days
If you played the original Vertical Drop Heroes you will surely love the remake.
Pro Simple character creation with different classes
There are a few different classes available at character creation, each one has it's own abilities that are different from the others. Creating one is quite simple, which makes for a fast way to get into the game and start playing.
Pro Gold Standard for roguelikes
The controls and replayability have been refined over the years. Whether the player chooses to play with Tiles (graphics) or console (ASCII) the game works well even when choosing online or offline play. Either way there is just enough interface to play the game.
Cons
Con Strange combat
Walking into enemies to attack them just seems strange. You can turn the auto-attack off, but that just seems to make the gameplay even worse.
Con A bit crash-prone
The game can sometimes crash. Seeing as this is a roguelike, crashes can be pretty frustrating.
Con RNG is a nasty mistress
RNG can sometimes give you your favorite character builds, or it can keep giving you your least favorite builds.
Con Have to fiddle with controls
Being that the game uses an emulated keyboard on screen it works best on tablet, though is not really the preferred method (but is the only one) since it takes up screen space.