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Choose a character and tackle missions in a procedurally generated city using stealth, hacking, persuasion, or force.
Released 12 Jul 2019
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Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
Developed by Matt Dabrowski · Published by tinyBuild
Streets of Rogue is a top-down roguelite set in a procedurally generated city. You play as a character with distinctive abilities and work through city levels toward the goal of becoming mayor.
Each level gives you mission objectives, but leaves the approach open. Use character traits, items, and the environment to sneak past guards, hack systems, bribe or persuade people, fight, or set rival groups against one another. Residents and factions can react to events, creating new complications.
Runs progress through successive levels, with missions and character-specific goals shaping what you do. Characters, traits, items, and optional mutators change the available strategies; play alone or in online and local co-op for up to four players.
Across the supplied reviews, players often enjoy how different characters change the way missions play and how objectives can be solved through stealth, hacking, persuasion, or force. They also praise the unpredictable interactions between city residents and factions, which can turn plans into chaotic street fights, and many find that variety gives them reasons to replay or team up with friends.
Streets of Rogue is a rogue-lite about player choice, freedom, and anarchic fun. The game takes inspiration from fast-paced top-down rogue-lites like Binding of Isaac and Nuclear Throne, and adds free-form, experimentation-driven, emergent gameplay elements of RPGs like Deus Ex.
Rather than taking place in a dungeon, the game is set in a functioning, procedurally generated city, where complex AI informs denizens from all walks of life, who are just trying to get by in their daily activities.
In order to progress, the player will need to accomplish specific mission goals in any way they see fit through use of their special character traits, items, and the environment.
Will you play as a soldier who shoots first and asks questions later?
A stealthy doctor who uses chloroform and tranquilizer darts to silently take down the opposition?
A genial bartender who can talk his way past the most intimidating of guards?
Or how about a hyper-intelligent gorilla, rescuing other caged gorillas to form a small mobilized gorilla army?
The Mighty Feature-List
Play the game YOUR way! Don’t want to kill anybody? That’s cool! Want to hack computers? Got ya covered!
Random world generation and TOTALLY EXTREME gameplay variety means you can play for 600 hours and not get bored! Seriously though, go outside!!!
Super-advanced artificial intelligence that won’t put up with your crap! Outsmart these virtual humans and feel superior to your computer!
Play as over 20 (and growing!) wildly different types of characters! Bartender, scientist, hacker, gorilla — hey, your job is probably in there too!
Stupidly huge variety of items! Shrink rays, hypnotizing devices, boomboxes, bear traps, food processors.. Oh, and guns too.
4-Player online and local cooperative modes lets you brutalize goons AND loneliness!
Lead a gang, free slaves, drink beer, gib ghosts, become a vampire, shrink people and stomp on them. The most insanely varied game ever made.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 52 |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | Streets of Rogue supports single-player and multiplayer. The store page states 4-player online and local cooperative modes. Steam features also list Online PvP, LAN PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, and Remote Play Together. Reviews consistently describe online play, couch/local split-screen play, and up to four total players. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Steam Workshop is supported. Reviews mention downloadable custom characters, floor generation, custom maps, and entire new campaigns. The store page also lists a level editor. No provided text states whether mods require all players to have matching content or how mods synchronize in multiplayer. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 3 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
