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Rogue Legacy is a 2013 platform game with roguelike elements developed and published by Cellar Door Games. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and iOS.[3][4][5] A sequel, Rogue Legacy 2, was released on April 28, 2022 for Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One.
The goal of Rogue Legacy is to explore a randomly generated dungeon, defeat four bosses in each of the four unique environments of the dungeon, and then defeat the final boss. Characters have the default ability to jump and slash with their sword, along with secondary abilities, such as magic attacks, which use mana. Players can also use their sword to slash platforms to make them extend.[6]
Whenever a character dies as a result of losing all of their Hit Points (HP), control will transfer over to one of three randomly generated heirs which the player may choose between, though this number may be increased to six with a later upgrade. Each descendant carries their unique characteristics and abilities,[7] including such genetic peculiarities as color-blindness (in which the game is presented in black and white), ADHD (in which the player moves faster) and dwarfism (in which the character is short and can fit into small gaps).
Gold found while exploring the castle can be used to improve the character's equipment and abilities, which are passed on to that character's heirs. Gold can be found by smashing pieces of furniture, opening chests, or defeating enemies. There are also various fairy chests hidden in special rooms throughout the castle, most of which require the player to complete an objective, such as taking no damage in the room, in order to be opened.
Spending gold on the manor, which appears after a new heir is chosen, can increase stats, such as health and mana, and unlock and upgrade new classes that may be carried by one of the heirs. These include mages, which can use more advanced spells, warriors, who have higher strength, and assassins, who can use various stealth techniques and have an increased likelihood of having a critical hit.
Gold can unlock the blacksmith, the enchantress and the architect, who each provide their own services. The blacksmith can use blueprints found in the castle to create new armor and equipment for the player, improving their stats. Similarly, the enchantress can use runes found in fairy chests to give the player enhancements, unlocking additional abilities such as double jumping and dashing. Finally, the architect can lock down the design of a previously encountered castle (so that a new one isn't randomly generated) in exchange for a percentage of any gold found.
The game features a progressing "New Game +" feature, in which every completion of the game along a specific line of descendants increases the difficulty while also increasing the rewards offered by enemies and chests. After the second completion, the format for the name is "New Game +n" where n is the number of playthroughs since the first (begins at +2, then +3, etc.). Notably, while enemies increase in difficulty theoretically forever, bosses do not get any harder across playthroughs. Furthermore, the player cannot normally increase in power beyond a certain point, though small increases to various stats beyond this soft-cap are possible through the "Fairy Chests" system.
A number of secret bosses exist, all of which are remixed versions of each of the ordinary bosses.[8] Upon defeating all of the secret ordinary bosses, one may challenge the secret version of the final boss in order to unlock the secret "Traitor" class, based on the first form of the final boss.
The game was developed by Cellar Door Games, a Toronto-based developer consisting of brothers Kenny and Teddy Lee. This was the brothers' biggest project to date and took 18 months to develop. The game was inspired by such titles as Demon's Souls and Dark Souls. Teddy compares the design to games like Spelunky and The Binding of Isaac, noting that their goal was to make the game relatively forgiving and accessible, while also allowing permanent progression.[8] Due to the need to streamline the game, several prominent features were cut during development, including an experience system. Kenny added that the revenue from the game will allow them to focus on larger future projects.[9]
The game cost the team about $15,000 of their own money to develop, all of which was earned back within an hour of release. Rogue Legacy went on to sell more than 100,000 copies within the first week.[10]
In December 2014, Cellar Door Games teamed up with IndieBox, a monthly subscription box service, to produce an exclusive physical release of Rogue Legacy. This limited, individually-numbered collector's edition included a flash-drive with a DRM-free game file, the official soundtrack, an instruction manual and Steam key, as well as several custom-designed collectible items.[11][12]
Mitchell Saltzman of GameFront describes the game as "insanely hard for the unprepared".[28] Philip Kollar of Polygon and Mike Splechta of GameZone mentioned the short life spans of their characters,[29][30] and Scott Nichols of Digital Spy expressed frustration when first starting out.[31] Other reviewers remarked that the game actually encourages these short runs while rewarding the player via the broader progression system.[29][31][32][33] Ryan Stevens of GameTrailers described the game as "[riding] the line of frustration and fun".[34] Saltzman concludes that "difficulty may be a turnoff to those who get frustrated easily".[28]
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero.
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 succeed. 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.
I'm not going to tell you how dreadful I am at Rogue Legacy. If I did you'd never invite me to play with your group in the playground again. But I am going to tell you how much I still enjoy playing Rogue Legacy, despite seemingly having failed to improve at it over seven years of playing.
Gosh it's so infuriatingly tempting to begin every write-up about a roguelike/lite with some sort of family tree of the genre. The title has become so splendidly meaningless at this point, blurring the RPGness of Rogue with the platforming of Spelunky with the tactics of deck-builders, we may as well call each what it is. So Rogue Legacy is an action-platform game in which you start over an awful lot. I prefer to think of it as the evolution of Spelunky we'll clearly never see from Derek Yu.
Rogue Legacy stakes itself in such an interesting position. It's tough-as-nails in many senses, a randomly generated platformer that's ludicrously difficult, guaranteed to kill you over and over. And yet it's as approachable as the wide-open arms of a teddy bear, constantly encouraging you to keep trying, keep playing, and most importantly, keep improving your chances. Because of course the key gimmick here was that with each death, you went on to play one of your own offspring. Three possible choices are rolled from an extensive and ever-growing collection of classes and traits, both letting you try to lean toward builds you prefer, while often forcing you to play as classes you might otherwise avoid from habit. So you might be Mage, Barbarian, Knave or Shinobi (or six others, or evolutions of them), but you might also have gigantism and be enormous, or dwarfism and be tiny. Or perhaps have ADHD and move faster, or suffer from hypergonadism and thus knock enemies back farther. Near and far-sightedness will affect the blurriness of various parts of the screen, while stereo blindness means the game's characters are rendered as 2D flipping sprites (which is all excellently silly, since the game's 2D anyway, and it just changes their animations). And so, so many more besides.
(I may as well put it in here that I felt, and still feel, super-uncomfortable about a bunch of these categories. ADHD, dyslexia, OCD, Alzheimer's, and so on, are all traits, and all feel in questionable taste as gags to include in the game. I mean, I get it, it's funny that the character is forgetful, or the game's text is jumbled up, or whichever, but I kind of wish it could have picked titles that aren't conditions that make people's lives really hard/awful.)
This mixture of always-killing-you difficulty, with endless enticements to keep going, is then made even more welcoming by its deliberate step away from the traditional rogue-rules, in that progression is a key part of play. On each run you gather gold, and can then spend this in either the ever-growing skill tree, or at a number of merchants who'll improve your armour, weapons, and runes that allow extra abilities. Which is to say, the more you play, the easier the game gets. At least, the easier it is to get further into the game until it gets madly hard again.
This is such a beautiful example of a carrot on a stick, always making me return to try again, knowing this time my swords hit that bit harder, or I have this much more health to start with, or I've unlocked this new class that moves much faster. I may well fail within thirteen seconds, but I'll keep going again, pondering paying the 40% tithe to have the castle remain the same as the last run to better explore it, or try again with a particular boss fight. And the more I fail, the more I feel like I'm progressing. Thank goodness this isn't a coin-op or I'd be living in a skip.
Seven years has done nothing to Rogue Legacy's charms. The super-chunky cartoon style is pretty age-proof, beyond its limited resolution. But more importantly, I just don't think anyone else has managed to deliver anything similar in a better way. Obviously Rogue Legacy was inspired by The Binding Of Isaac and Spelunky, along with a touch of Dark Souls (but no, come back, it's nothing like Dark Souls), but its determination to let progression feel in the forefront of the experience is something that, I think, is pretty pooh-poohed by the genre hardcore. When it's in a game, it's usually so reluctant, or so slight, that it feels much more like an extra layer of exclusion. Not so here. Here it's about letting the persistent player always get a little bit further in, feel a little bit more confident once they reach any of the three other environments (in which my average lifespan measures in the seconds, not minutes, but each visit feels like a thrilling dash to gather as much cash as I can).
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