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…
Vertical Drop Heroes HD is an adventure developed by Nerdook Productions, released 25 July 2014 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One. It currently starts at $1.25 at GOG.
What Vertical Drop Heroes HD is
Vertical Drop Heroes HD is an adventure game developed by Nerdook Productions and released in 2014. It was published by Digerati Distribution. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GameMaker.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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!
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen. There are 30 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Vertical Drop Heroes HD holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Processor 2 GHz (Dual Core), 256 MB RAM and OpenGL 2.1 compatible 3D graphics card with 256 MB VRAM. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.25 at GOG, 75% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Vertical Drop Heroes HD launched on 25 July 2014, within three weeks of The Last of Us Remastered, Trine Enchanted Edition, Five Nights at Freddy's and Motorsport Manager. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Last of Us Remastered, Trine Enchanted Edition, Five Nights at Freddy's, Motorsport Manager.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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