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    Rogue Legacy

    Game » consists of 11 releases. Released Jun 27, 2013

    A "genealogical rouge-lite" that combines elements from "Metroidvania" platformers and roguelike games. Explore the ever-shifting rooms of Castle Hamson as a lineage of knights, with each ancestor's death potentially improving their offspring's chance for success!

    disen's Rogue Legacy (PC) review

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    • disen has written a total of 14 reviews. The last one was for Rogue Legacy

    Fantastic pick-up and play.

    All in all, this game is more Castlevania than not, only throw in some RPG elements, skill trees, and an interesting way of handling death. Feels sharp to play. Endless potential gameplay. Apart from punishing difficulty at times, there really isn't anything bad to say about it. The end.

    Other reviews for Rogue Legacy (PC)

      Rogue Legacy is what gaming needs more of. It's challenging, detailed, polished, and absolutely enthralling. 0

      Modern triple A gaming has this habit of treating me like a stroke victim. The game mechanics are either something to keep the player from falling asleep between plot points (typically found in RPG's) or lacking concepts other than filling the closest enemy with absurd amounts of lead and hiding behind cover if the same should happen to you.Rogue Legacy on the other hand is what would result if Dark Souls and Castlevania decided that S&M was too tame for them. It's a 2D platformer in the sty...

      5 out of 5 found this review helpful.

      jakob187's Review of Rogue Legacy 0

      If you are an indie game in this digital download era that we live in, you will typically find yourself shuffled into one of two categories: the "slightly pretentious games are art" category and the "we like old games and want to make something like that with our own small twist" category. Given the kinds of budgets these games are made on, you cannot fault a developer when they try their hardest. However, there are those moments when a true gem gets released that swallows up all of your time wh...

      2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

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