This ranks among my top games of all-time, from concept to execution to enjoyability, and I don't see it falling from that spot anytime soon. Every part of it so clearly demonstrates the sheer passion the developer put into this game, including the incredible pixel art, the well-balanced levels (most of them, at least), the quips characters make after each round, the fact that crossplay between PC, mobile, and Switch is seamless (and that there's crossplay at all!), the emergent complexity for each character's special ability, and how when every match ends you can rewatch the last 10 seconds to see what happened to lead to your glorious victory (or your miserable-and-totally-undeserved defeat) *and* can press a button to save a GIF of those 10 seconds directly to your computer. shadiradio went above and beyond in every aspect even when they absolutely didn't need to, and it shows.
Now, will you be able to buy this game and immediately enjoy it? No, but not just because there's a learning curve to being invisible. That's pretty easily solved by counting your steps and slowly getting an innate feel for where you are. No, the issue is that this game never took off because it's hard to advertise invisible gameplay. How do you show someone the game when the whole point is that you can't see what's happening? For that reason, online multiplayer is a ghost town, which is a shame because Invisigun's entire foundation is the multiplayer experience. So if you want to enjoy this, you're going to need to either have friends you can rope in for couch play or get copies of the game themselves, or join the Invisigun discord and ping to see if other people are available for a few matches. But if you can do that, or if you're content to just play matches against bots (which honestly isn't that bad, the bots are fairly competent at higher difficulties), then I can guarantee you will love Invisigun.
And hey, if you're on the fence because you need to make a purchase, regardless of the actual cost, you can download it on your phone for free! You won't have access to every character, but you have the entire rest of the game available so you can kinda treat it like a demo.
Happy sneaking!
