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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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-08-31 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
“It's just good fun truthfully. A nice game to relax too.”
— a player, Steam review · 54 hrs played“+Some player choice -Game starts with a main menu that you cannot get past with mouse without any indication that you should use keyboard? -> UX/UI issues -Runs poorly; feels like it's limited to 30 FPS -Did not drive me to play more -Incremental roguelite, not my cup of tea.…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“trash, this game dev killed the flash version dev and used chatgpt to make this”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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A TEN YEAR surprise: an update for Vertical Drop Heroes HD!
Hey everyone! Great news! Vertical Drop Heroes HD is back!!! After a long discussion with the publisher, we came to an amicable agreement to transfer all of Nerdook's older games back to me, so they a
VERTICAL DROP HEROES + 3 OTHER GAMES IN THE NERDOOK BUNDLE!
We've just launched the Nerdook Bundle – a collection that gives you four of developer Nerdook's games for a discounted price. In addition to Vertical Drop Heroes , the bundle also includes The Magist
THE MAGISTER – NEW NERDOOK GAME IS OUT NOW!
It's sleuthin' and deducin' time! The Magister - the new game from Vertical Drop Heroes HD developer, Nerdook - has finally arrived and there's a murder to solve in Silverhurst! Step into the shoes of
THE MAGISTER - NEW NERDOOK GAME LAUNCHES SOON!
Wanted to let you all know that The Magister, the new game from Vertical Drop Heroes developer Nerdook, now has a release date – the murder-mystery card battler will launch September 2nd on Steam (and
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, RPG |
| Player tags | Action Roguelike · Platformer · Co-op · RPG · Rogue-like · 2D · Rogue-lite · Local Co-Op · Split Screen · Procedural Generation · Multiplayer · Casual (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements · Partial Controller Support · Stats · Steam Leaderboards |
| Languages | English, Portuguese - Brazil, German, Spanish - Spain, French |
| Achievements | 30 |
| Official site | http://nerdook-productions.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 Processor: Processor 2 GHz (Dual Core) Memory: 256 MB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 compatible 3D graphics card with 256 MB VRAM DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 40 MB available space Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card Additional Notes: Support for Xbox controllers