Invisible Inc.

Two agents and a dying superintelligent A.I. on a last-ditch mission to rebuild their Agency before time runs out. Each mission you have three goals: find the objective, find the exit, and make it out alive. On your turn you move your agents, steal from corporate safes, knock out guards, siphon power, and hack cameras and other devices with your A.I. Then the enemy takes its turn: guards and drones patrol, and the alarm level increases; and every four alarm levels, everything gets harder. Invisible Inc. is all about risk/reward decisions against a background of constantly rising threat. Do I knock this guard out, knowing that he'll awake in three turns and start hunting for me? Or do I spend one action point observing his patrol path so I can hide effectively? Do I spend four power hacking this camera? Or do I run past it, knowing it'll raise the alarm that much faster? Do I spend my credits on an armor-piercing neutralizer to knock out guards better? Or do I spend them on upgrading my agents' abilities? Do I hack the laser-grid's power supply despite the daemon installed in it? Or do I spend turns trying to find a way around? Can I get to that safe and back to cover while the guard's back is turned? Can I distract that killdrone to lead it away from my other agent it would have seen next turn? Can I get to the teleporter in time? Can I make it out alive? Can I make it out alive?

It is a tactical turn-based infiltration game with rogue-lite elements (randomly generated levels, characters/items unlock, etc). It is similar to the latest X-com in many ways. The game provides variety of randomly generated mission sites, yet you can only do limited number of missions due to time limit. In a mission, you send 2-4 spies with different abilities to infiltrate and steal valuable objects and information. You peek through doors, observe guard patrol patterns, knock out guards and take their key cards, and hack droids to help you scout for couple of turns. After single game, you unlock more abilities and characters which will change up your next playthrough. Limited number of rewind in each level and excellent level generation, the game is all about tactics and your skill rather than RNG. If all this sounds interesting, you should know the game has one big flaw. The game is extremely short. Yes, the game is designed to be played multiple times but one playthrough lasts roughly 2 hours. Even though the game has great voice acting and animation, they quickly become stale. There is no 'multiple endings' or 'different mission scenarios.' Just higher difficulty options. There IS an endless mode, which I haven't checked out yet, but I doubt it has the same quality VA and animation as the main story mode. I hope Klei will bring an interesting update to this game to improve it. All that said, I am going to recommend at $18 price. I already played more than 6 hours of it, and I don't plan to stop soon.

I have played this game for countless hours. The endless mode is nice because the difficulty does continue to go up. It does get to a point where it is very challenging to play. In endless mode, you DO have time to build up your agency the way you'd like. There are also quite a few settings for game customization that can give a very different game than the campaigns. Others are right about the campaigns being too short, but having played the campaigns first, the endless mode was a treat. They are also quite right about it getting repetitive, but this is a game where you have to think and check your work before making your move. You WILL make mistakes, but many deaths are avoidable if you have the right items. When I got my fill of playing it, I started modding it. And that's where the fun really started. They could have done much, much more with this game, and by looking at the code, it appears they intended to have more done by release. I have made several mods and plan to release a bundle of them to the Klei community. If you know anything about programming, this is a fun and fairly easy game to mod and I'd highly recommend it. My main complaint about the game is that it is not very deep in skill development. You have 4 skills with 5 levels for each skill and that's just kinda boring. They fill up fast in endless mode. Second complaint is that in endless mode, you will eventually end up with way too many credits and nothing to spend them on, and that's kinda boring too. But really, all of this could be fixed with mods. They add new items, new agents, new guards and guard AI, new augments, and have the potential for everything up to and including complete conversions. I would highly recommend this game to any stealth game and turn based strategy game lover. The two go so well together in this game. The art style is really good and the enjoyment I have gotten out of this game was well worth the asking price, and I hope you enjoy this game as much as I have.

I bought this game because I'm a big fan of two of their games, Mark of the Ninja and Don't starve. I would recommend this one, but not at its current price. Here is why : It's a good little game, with a great concept, that relies on a series of X-Com-like tactical missions that help you beat the final one. However, you cannot rush into the missions with heavy weapons and grenades. Here you have to reach the objectives by being stealthy and hacking into the mainframe accesses as fast as you can, because every 5 turns the security level increases. I've had fun with it, and I liked the initial challenge, but ... The campaign is far too short. I finished the Beginner campaign in less than 6 hours, in 4 attempts. What I liked in X-Com games was that you had to slowly improve your equipment, level up your roster and finally, after several hours, defeat the enemy against all odds. Here I finished the campaign in 2 hours, and some 6 or maybe 7 missions and with only one agent (the other one died in the third mission). I would have preferred a more rewarding game. Also, each failure gives you experience, that will help you unlock new programs and agents. I've been a bit disappointed by the agents and more so by the programs I've unlocked (I've unlocked 4 agents and 2 programs). There are a full set of options you can play with to increase the level difficulty, and the number of missions you can do before finishing the campaign, but now I have finished it, it seems a bit spoiled. So yeah, I recommend it, but only if you can find a good sale.