Vertical Drop Heroes is a procedural platformer RPG hybrid with roguelike elements, where your hero adventures through randomly generated stages. Armed with a variety of skills and traits, you must use your cunning and reflexes to survive the dangers of each stage.
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Vertical Drop Heroes is a procedural platformer RPG hybrid with roguelike elements, where your hero adventures through randomly generated stages. Armed with a variety of skills and traits, you must use your cunning and reflexes to survive the dangers of each stage, until you face the final boss and uncover the truth behind the game!
FEATURES
- Randomly generated stages, enemies and bosses, resulting in a very replayable game
- Artwork, coding and animation done by one person (me) in that unique Nerdook style
- Split screen, local co-op, as well as local network coop!
- Destructible terrain and multiple uses for each skill gives you plenty of options to approach the different situations generated
- Tons of skills, abilities, traits and powers that you can unlock in the game, creating a different hero each time
- Unique combat system where proper planning is more important than quick reflexes
- Persistent upgrades allow you to carry forward progress between games, with a choice between increasingly expensive persistent upgrades or generally cheaper temporary upgrades
- Every enemy and boss has been designed to provide challenge and variety
BACKGROUND
This is a HD remake of GIGANTIC proportions for Vertical Drop Heroes, the original webgame with over 2 million plays... from Nerdook, a one-man developer with a portfolio of games that has accumulated more than 50 million plays worldwide! Bigger and better in every way, Vertical Drop Heroes HD revamps the entire game into an epic, randomly generated platformer RPG!
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, GOG publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $6.99 | 741reviews | 80% | — | $123K |
| $9.99 | 96ratings | 81% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
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Reviews
I don't remember buying this so maybe it came from a humble bundle. I was looking through my library when I stumbled onto it and decided to go for all achievements. Procedurally generated rouge light games are usually hit or miss. It’s a saturated market so it didn’t particularly spark intrigue for me initially. It also possesses a classic new grounds style art that I must commend for its DIY vibes. That being said it wasn’t the prettiest game to look at, at least for my personal taste. The game play itself is where the game shined. Just make sure you disable auto attack in the settings. You’re tasked with making it to the bottom of the screen and how you go about that depends on the level, the layout, your build, and the monsters. In theory, you don’t have to attack any enemies at all. You seemingly could complete an entire run passively. How realistic that is for the final boss is debatable and likely based on your build but I love that about the game. I do have some gripes. The spikes for one can absolutely destroy a run especially towards the end. Need to fall through a gap with two spikes on either side? Better hope the game decides your not half a pixel too far to the left or right and oops your dead. Some of the enemies can be frustrating to deal with. The flying octopus for instance with its phase ability. Some enemies can destroy the environments before you have a chance to even realize what’s going on leaving the floor on fire and you struggling to avoid clusters of flying enemies but that’s a part of random generated levels as opposed to curated design. You gain variety and a little bit of BS difficulty spiking is along for the ride. All in all, a very charming game. The game play loop was addictive and it was very clear that this was a passion project. Most of my complaints are to be expected with a smaller game like this let alone one of 2014. I think $7 feels a bit steep of an asking price. I doubt most folks will put 40 hours in like I did. If you like 2D games, rough lights, or new grounds; I think you’ll get a kick out of this one. Maybe wait for it to go on sale or buy a discounted key. Cheers! 8.5/10
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Languages: English, Portuguese - Brazil, German, Spanish - Spain, French
| $1.25−75% |
| 93ratings |
| 72% |
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| not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 42 reviews with recorded playtime.
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3/10
I really enjoyed this twist on the Rogue Legacy formula - it's a good introduction to the genre because it's far less punishing than many.
The Rogue Legacy comparison is unavoidable, but the vertical runs are short enough that you always get to something interesting fast, and the pacifist sigils genuinely changed how I approach levels once I realized skipping fights pays out too. Combat is on the shallow side, mostly about standing in the right spot and swinging, and by the time I was replaying Goblin Forest for the fifteenth time the repetition had set in. Still, the trait and ability rolls kept surprising me, teleporting a boss into lava never got old, and for the price it's an easy yes if you want something you can play in twenty minute chunks.
Game is pretty fun but after the update it looks sad asf...
* Game Style: Rogue-lite. Choose from 3 randomly generated characters that will possibly differ in class, weapons, h.p., traits, and skills. Descend short vertical stages (think Kid Icarus in reverse) filled with enemies while collecting XP, coins, keys, and unlocking chests, bonus stats, and new skills. The bottom of each stage has a boss that must be killed before being able to progress. Upon death, the player loses all XP and levels, but keeps all gold and any skills and traits that were acquired during the run. Then the cycle repeats; however, before starting stage one, you can use gold from the previous run to upgrade health, damage, and the value of "pacifist orbs" (items that give gold and xp that disappear once a stage's first enemy is killed. + I own Vertical Drop Heroes HD for pretty much everything that it has been released on. It's simple gameplay, charming colorful graphics, and excellent soundtrack (seriously good music here!) make VDH easy to pick up but hard to put down. + It's perfect on the Steamdeck. - I do wish that the game had cloud saves, but it's not that big of a deal for me.
The gameplay gets repetitive real fast. I progressed quite far in an hour but ultimately wasn't inspired to continue.
Puede ser enviciante.
Игра имеет приятное оформление, рисованный мультяшный стиль и ненапрягающее весёлое звуковое сопровождение. Есть возможность поиграть по локальной сети. Здесь игроку предстоит постоянно спускаться вниз(отсюда и название игры как не странно) ), собирать монетки, ключи и кристаллы, периодически отвешивая пилюлей вражеским оркам.
Как здорово что эта классная игра снова ожила!
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