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Rogue Legacy
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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!
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Review of Rogue Legacy

Rogue Legacy Review Played on Nintendo Switch Time Played: 15+ hours It's in the Genes I have to admit, my first few (very short) runs in Rogue Legacy were not very enjoyable. I found the controls too… Read more

Video Review - Rogue Legacy

Rogue Legacy is a roguelike featuring a randomly generated castle and an interesting ancestry system. Every time you die, you are advanced to the next member of your family. You are given a choice bet… Read more

Rogue Legacy Review

Rogue Legacy is a 2D platforming action game by Cellar Door Games, an independent Canadian studio. It’s categorized as a roguelike, which for the uninitiated, is a sub-genre that typically includes pr… Read more

Rogue Legacy is One of the Kings of Indie

Cellar Door Games’ Rogue Legacy, as has been said before, is like a retro Souls game. In what looks like a fairly standard pixel-art Action/RPG title holds an impressive amount of depth, complexity, e… Read more

Storming the Castle is Fun for the Whole Family.

My first experience with Rogue Legacy was watching my friend Jean-Luc struggle against this giant skull demon thing named Alexander . I sat for several hours and watched him die and die and die again… Read more

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… Read more

Hard as hell, worth the journey

I found Rogue Legacy to be a difficult game, and as the name suggests, you will die. A lot. However this tight platformer, which is different every time - both the dungeon and your character traits -… Read more

Rogue Legacy accomplishes it's goal in fueling a desire into proving that you can beat it.

I don't remember the last time I've had the feeling of being an addict, the feeling of getting sucked into a game vent on beating it that Rogue Legacy gave to me. It's a difficult game for sure and it… Read more

jakob187's Review of Rogue Legacy

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 "… Read more

Rogue Legacy or: How I Learned to Kill an Entire Lineage

Rogue Legacy, much like Spelunky before it, is a procedurally generated roguelike platformer. Where both games involve exploring randomly generated levels and collecting loot, this is about where the… Read more

Rogue Legacy Review

As the name suggests, Rogue Legacy is a 2D roguelike game in which you fight your way through a procedurally generated castle, playing as many, many different people, all continuing your legacy. These… Read more

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

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)… Read more

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