When comparing Invisible, Inc. vs Vertical Drop Heroes HD, the Slant community recommends Invisible, Inc. for most people. In the question“What are the best roguelikes/roguelites on PC?” Invisible, Inc. is ranked 7th while Vertical Drop Heroes HD is ranked 40th. The most important reason people chose Invisible, Inc. is:
Invisible, Inc. offers you a few different choices on how to play the game. Maybe you want to have a team full of stealthy people and sneak your way toward your goal, or maybe you just want to run in and beat the bad guys down. Both of these options are perfectly viable, even though the game is more favored to the stealth style.
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Pros
Pro There's different ways to play
Invisible, Inc. offers you a few different choices on how to play the game. Maybe you want to have a team full of stealthy people and sneak your way toward your goal, or maybe you just want to run in and beat the bad guys down. Both of these options are perfectly viable, even though the game is more favored to the stealth style.
Pro You get to choose which missions to take
When playing the game, you're presented with options of several different missions to take, and they all result in different perks. For example, you may need some extra money, so you take a mission with a much higher payout than the rest. Or maybe you need new gear, so you set out on a mission with a new piece as a reward.
Pro Excellent difficulty progression
As you take longer time during missions, the general difficulty level increases gradually. Time and mission profits must be balanced wisely.
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.
Cons
Con Very static story
While the gameplay is randomized and meant to be played repeatedly due to the randomization, the story is still static, so after every mission there will be cut scenes that are always the same. After a while this becomes annoying due to familiarity, while they can be skipped, it would be nice to turn them off completely in order to save time.
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.