You control a family of characters one at a time, and when your character dies, you choose who his or her successor is, whether it is a barbarian son of yours who has OCD, your daughter who became a ninja even though she can’t see well, an assassin who is fighting for the gays, or a miner who wants to collect gold! Traits are randomized each time upon death, leading to multiple playthroughs with 35 traits, each character will be unique.
Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might have vertigo– they could even be a dwarf.
That’s OK, because no one is perfect, and you don’t have to be perfect to win this game. But you do have to be pretty darn good because this game is HARD. Fortunately, every time you die all the gold you’ve collected can be used to upgrade you manor, giving your next child a step up in life and another chance at vanquishing evil.
But you shouldn’t listen to me. You should check out the trailer. It explains the game better then I ever could.
If you really want to READ about this game though, then you should check out our bullet list below.
Rogue Legacy Key Features:
1, A procedurally generated adventure. Explore new castles with every life.
2, Rogue-lite. Your character dies, but with each passing your lineage grows and becomes stronger.
3, Tons of unique traits that makes each playthrough special. Ever wanted to be dyslexic? Now you can!
4, More than 8 classes to choose from (9)! Each class has unique abilities that change the way you play the game.
5, Over 60 different enemies to test your skills against. Hope you like palette-swaps!
6, Massive, expandable skill tree. Rack in the loot to upgrade your manor and give your successors a cutting edge.
7, Oh yeah, there’s a Blacksmith and an Enchantress shop but we forgot to show them in the trailer…
8, Equip your heroes with powerful weaponry and armor. Or gain new abilities like flight, dash, and air jumping.
9, Tons of secrets and easter eggs to uncover… or are there? Yes there are.
10, DirectX®:9.0c
11, Additional:Only available in desktop mode for Windows 8.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | 1.6 Ghz | Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz / AMD Athlon XP 2000+ |
| CPU SPEED | 1.6 GHz | 2 GHz |
| VRAM | 256 MB | 256 MB |
| RAM | 1 GB | 2 GB |
| OS | Windows XP/Vista/7 | Win Xp 32 |
| Graphics Card | Radeon X1950 Pro, Nvidia GeForce 7900 GT | nVidia GeForce GT 130 / AMD Radeon HD 2900 GT |
| Direct X | 9.0c | DX 9 |
| SOUND CARD | Yes | Yes |
| HDD Space | 400 MB | 400 MB |
| Game Analysis | A procedurally generated adventure. Explore new castles with every life.Rogue-lite. Your character dies, but with each passing your lineage grows and becomes stronger.Tons of unique traits that makes each playthrough special. Ever wanted to be dyslexic? Now you can!More than 8 classes to choose from (9)! Each class has unique abilities that change the way you play the game.Over 60 different enemies to test your skills against. Hope you like palette-swaps!Massive, expandable skill tree. Rack in the loot to upgrade your manor and give your successors a cutting edge. | |
| High FPS | 200+ FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
| Note | Only available in desktop mode for Windows 8. | |
| Optimization Score | 10 | |
| Minimum System Requirements | ||
| CPU | Dual Core CPU | |
| RAM | 2 GB RAM | |
| OS | Snow Leopard 10.6.8, 32/64-bit | |
| Graphics Card | OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable) | |
| HDD Space | 400 MB HD space |
| Minimum System Requirements | ||
| CPU | Dual Core CPU | |
| RAM | 2 GB RAM | |
| OS | glibc 2.15+, 32/64-bit. S3TC support is NOT required. | |
| Graphics Card | OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable) | |
| HDD Space | 400 MB HD space |
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Great platforming fun. Best gamepad game of 2013 =) (Seriously, do not bother playing with keyboard on this one. Gamepad is the only good choice here.)
Retro 8 bit graphics + neat humour in detail + fast-paced skill-based action-paced button-smash arcade-platformer sweety-goodness.
Neat uprage and progress system, hard boss-fights, different types of classes play differently. Easily best 10-15 bucks game out there.
PS. Also has a game+ type of thing if you are into that. Just beating it once was good enough for me though =)
Fun, simplistic gameplay that is also a great challenge
Nice sprites/artwork
Randomly generated dungeons
Crashes on exit constantly (PS3)
Game is rather short, psuedo-randomness
No way to view outside of the screen - can make luck a big factor
Rogue Legacy is a platformer + roguelike fusion. It’s a whole lot of fun and provides a great challenge along with it. As the player you will be dying a lot, but strangely that doesn’t take any enjoyment away from the game. As a matter of fact dying is such a focal point that it actually improves the experience. The ‘punishment’ for deaths is spot on, and playing through the game with different classes (which directly relates to the ‘deaths’ you suffer) provides different options and challenges. There are some traditional rpg elements (such as character improvement and equipment) but it’s all very straightfoward and doesn’t get in the way of the fun stuff. The game is designed in a way that you can’t just charge into an area sword first, hoping for the best. Each room is randomly generated and each obstacle/enemy requires a different approach.
The art style is very nice in my opinion, everything fits well and both the enemies and bosses are well designed. It’s a game that you can pick up and play for 15 minutes or alternatively lose a few hours if you have them to spare. There’s nothing too flashy going on (which is to be expected from an indie developer) but i do feel that’s a positive. Nothing detracts from the gameplay, which is a nice change.
On the negative side, there are a few minor issues. playing on the PS3 the game constantly crashes when trying to exit to the XMB. i think only once in 10+ times did i manage to exit successfully. The game is rather short, and although it is lots of fun, before too long players will be facing the same rooms with the same enemies and the fun is reduced somewhat. A gameplay gripe i have is that there is no way to look outside of your current screen, which in a very difficult platformer is a bit of an issue. There are rooms where you have to fall a large distance and you have no way of knowing where enemies/spikes will be on the ground so it becomes a guessing game. It’s a shame because everything else in the game is so fair and based on a player’s skill that it feels cheap when you find yourself falling right on top of enemies, however the game is still enjoyable despite these problems.
Conclusion: Rogue Legacy is a very fun platformer/rogue like hybrid that provides a good challenge and a lot of entertainment. The shortness of the game and lack of a truly ‘random’ experience do detract from the overall package, but it’s a game that i would definitely recommend others play.