Rogue Legacy

You enter a dangerous castle as a hero seeking to overcome its threats. When that hero dies, a chosen heir takes their place, continuing the family’s attempt to make progress.

Explore procedurally generated castle rooms, jump across platforms, fight enemies, avoid hazards, and collect gold. The castle contains multiple areas and bosses, and its layout changes between runs.

Choose among heirs with different classes and traits, which can affect how each run plays. Spend gold between lives on manor and skill-tree upgrades, unlock classes, and acquire equipment, runes, and abilities to strengthen future heirs.

Players often enjoy the unusual family-lineage system, especially the varied and sometimes humorous heir traits, and describe the inheritance mechanic as giving each run its own character. Permanent upgrades and the steady sense of progress also keep some players returning for another attempt. Others find the repeated runs grindy, the difficulty frustrating, or the controls and room layouts rough around the edges.