If she were closer, you could predict the guard’s route for the next turn, but that’s just not working out. You order Agent Prism next to a door and peek through it to reveal a patrolling guard. With every agent action, you must weigh a number of possible consequences, each of which is informed by multiple factors. When it arrives at the next level, security cameras that you hacked into might reset, or additional guards may be deployed. They have gravity, and escaping it requires superhuman resolve.īut that pesky security meter is always climbing. Other mechanics further complicate your economic considerations needless to say, credits are highly valuable, and while you could engage in a straightforward infiltration, safes and terminals lure you from one room to the next. Ranged weapons don’t come with unlimited ammo-they must be recharged with a one-use charger when they go empty-and agents you rescue don’t have weaponry on them. There is the draw of credits, for one, which you spend on leveling up your agents’ skills as well as on gadgets like weapons (both ranged and melee), augments (implants that offer passive bonuses), and other useful objects. Who needs trophies, when stealthy success serves as its own reward?
Ultimately, you take up to four agents on missions, which typically involve obtaining sensitive data from a terminal, grabbing ill-gotten credits, and hightailing it out of there. You begin with a duo but steadily add imprisoned agents to your roster as you spring them from holding cells. The titular spy agency is violently infiltrated, initiating a time-sensitive series of global heists and sneakabouts, each of which you control from an isometric perspective in the style of strategy games like XCOM. It introduces new concepts in a slow drip, giving you plenty of time to work out the details.
is also simple, elegant, and always logical. It’s tense and challenging, yes, but Invisible Inc. That meter tells you when security will be heightened during your heist, and it’s a vital part of what makes this stealth game worth the gray hairs it causes. In invisible, Inc., I have as much time as I need to position my agents just so, but I’m always paying attention to the security level at the top right of my screen. How amazing that a turn-based game can feel so urgent.
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