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[casemod]

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Title: Please put the canon title in the post as well.

Media: Is it a book, game, comic, movie, television series, recursive work, etc.?

Approximate length: Reading Length is a great resource for books and How Long to Beat is a great resource for video games.

Where is it found?: Please only provide links to legal sources. Is it free or must it be purchased?

Elevator pitch of what it's about: If you have to describe it in the time it takes to travel in an elevator, how would you?

Content warnings: You won't be able to warn for everything that may trigger someone, so please consider what the main trigger warnings would be and know that you won't be able to warn for everything.

What do you love about it?:

What kind of themes would you request for it?: Are you looking for a murder mystery? Heist? Medical drama investigation? Spies? This question does not mean you will request it; it's meant to help others know how it fits in the theme and what kind of creative works it may inspire.

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Invisible Inc (Video Game)

[hekateras]

Invisible Inc. (Video Game)

Approximate length
5-10 hours. You could watch a full playthrough in a day to see the story and Vibes, then spend a few hours reading all the unlockable lore (character dialogues, backstories, in-universe documents) on the wiki, and you're golden! Although I personally recommend playing it, it's a fantastic game :D

Where to find it?
Steam
Let's Play (first 10 episodes for main campaign)
Wiki: Lore and Characters (a very helpful resource for anything fannish as fully unlocking all the lore and character backstories requires many playthroughs!)

What is it, in summary?
Invisible Inc. is the tense infiltration and escape action sequence from every heist and spy movie, crystallised into an enthralling team tactics stealth video game.

What do you love about it?

• It's a fantastically designed game that somehow seamlessly combines stealthy, actiony, and puzzle vibes. The learning curve is steep, but much like similar punishing roguelikes like Darkest Dungeon, it's perfectly possible to play the game on a very casual difficulty and still enjoy it. It is amazing at producing experiences of tense escapes that feel down to the wire, and like every action matters, and you only just got out by the skin of your teeth through smart decision-making and tight teamwork.
• The characters are great. From the old lady spymaster who runs the show to her wisecracking hacker friend to her artificial intelligence Incognita to every one of her agents, each of them with their own backstory and dialogues with other characters.
• SPIES. Cyberpunk noir cyborg spies! Spy-Fi-style cool gadgets! Invisibility cloaks! EMPs! Smoke grenades!
• The emergent storytelling in these missions is so damn good, guys. There's nothing quite like the Drama of having to abandon an agent to be captured because the show must go on, and then rescuing them again in a later mission.... or saving them from being shot just in the nick of time! If you're fannish about games like Darkest Dungeon, you have a sense of what I mean here.
• And did I mention the art direction is fantastic?

Content warnings
Stylised violence

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Likely to request for Casefic Ex:
This canon lends itself perfectly to missionfic and heistfic! However, a more slow-paced investigation would also be incredibly interesting. All the characters are elite spies in the information-gathering trade, and collectively they have a ton of tools at their disposal, from hacking to infiltration to holographic disguises to knocking out a financial executive and scanning his brain implants while he squirms. I recently wrote a casefic of this for AU5k and had a blast!