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Vertical Drop Heroes HD

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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July 25, 2014
12 years and 10 days ago
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Very Positive740 reviews80.4%

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About the Game

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!