Invincible: Guarding the Globe is an idle hero squad RPG for mobile, featuring original storylines and characters from the Invincible animated series.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
#90
▼21Games · free
Sentiment
4.6
113k reviews
Nemesis
Idle Heroes - Idle Games
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
The app removes the friction of gacha-based recruitment by offering transparent, direct-purchase shops for specific heroes and gear.
For Fans of the Invincible animated series and comics who enjoy idle RPG mechanics and squad-based strategy.
Key features
Automated combat progression that continues while the app is closed, reducing churn by allowing progress during offline periods.
Secondary battle mode running parallel to the main campaign, increasing daily session time and reward accumulation.
Shared social battle mode where friends deploy hero squads, encouraging user invites and group activity.
Direct purchase of specific heroes and gear without randomized lootbox mechanics, encouraging predictable spending.
How much does it cost?
Monetization relies on direct-purchase shops for specific items rather than randomized gacha mechanics.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentnew contentseasonal eventsShow more...
With 8 releases in the observed window and a last update 111 days ago, the app operates at a maintenance cadence. Development is heavily focused on live-service elements like seasonal content, new characters, and narrative Case Files to maintain engagement. Despite the content-rich nature of recent updates, the lack of a release in nearly four months indicates a significant deceleration in development momentum. The publisher consistently uses the App Store to deliver new seasonal content and campaign chapters.
Who built it?
Ubisoft
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What do users think recently?
Recent user voice shows a mixed sentiment. Users appreciate the core idle gameplay loop provides a rewarding experience that keeps players engaged during short sessions and strong alignment with the source material makes the character roster and storylines highly appealing to fans, but report aggressive monetization tactics and frequent pop-up purchase prompts disrupt the flow of the core gameplay experience.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- The core idle gameplay loop provides a rewarding experience that keeps players engaged during short sessions
- Strong alignment with the source material makes the character roster and storylines highly appealing to fans
- Aggressive monetization tactics and frequent pop-up purchase prompts disrupt the flow of the core gameplay experience
65 of 198 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Mixed overall
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Competitive landscape for Invincible: Guarding the Globe
How's the Games market?
Invincible: Guarding the Globe holds a #146 Grossing rank in the US, positioning it as a mid-tier RPG. Its reliance on direct-purchase shops creates a distinct value proposition compared to the gacha-heavy category norm.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
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Both apps target the idle RPG audience with squad-based progression loops, competing for player time through automated battle systems.
- Transparent shop-based hero recruitment avoids the randomized gacha mechanics found in Idle Heroes.
- Invincible: Guarding the Globe uses direct narrative integration with the animated series to drive fan engagement.
- Idle Heroes provides guild-based social play through dedicated Guild Wars, a feature absent in the source app.
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Key takeaways for Invincible: Guarding the Globe
Where is it heading?
The idle RPG market is consolidating, and Invincible: Guarding the Globe's maintenance-mode cadence leaves it vulnerable to more aggressive live-ops rivals. Addressing the onboarding technical debt is the only way to stabilize the user base before the next major content drop.
- Tutorial soft-locks in the latest update prevent new user progression, creating a significant barrier to growth.
- The latest release added Season 4 content, demonstrating active investment in maintaining narrative relevance for the fan base.
The SWOT
- Transparent shop-based recruitment replaces gacha friction
- Deep narrative integration drives fan acquisition
- Implement account linking to reduce churn
- Expand character roster to improve team composition
Next best moves
Rebuild tutorial flow because soft-locks are the top new-user churn driver → increase day-1 retention
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's transparent shop model is a double-edged sword: by removing gacha-based gambling…
Read the full takeSince the last report: Development velocity has decelerated significantly, moving from an intense 9-day update cadence to a 111-day period of inactivity. This shift, combined with new tutorial soft-locks, has degraded the onboarding experience and lowered the overall sentiment score from 62 to 55.
Bottom line
Prioritizing technical stability in the tutorial phase would unlock the conversion funnel, as the current soft-locks are a primary churn driver.
Unlock 2 critical frictions, 2 market threats, 1 more prioritized move and the analyst’s take.
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Is Invincible: Guarding the Globe free to play?
Does the game use lootboxes?
Can I sync my progress between Android and iOS?
Sources
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