Rogue Legacy
Explore a changing castle, fight through its rooms and leave the next attempt to your descendants. Rogue Legacy turns collected gold into manor upgrades that help the family continue after a character dies.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.3 / 10
About this game
Rogue Legacy follows a family of adventurers through procedurally generated castles. You navigate platforms, confront enemies and collect gold, then continue with a descendant when the current character dies. Different classes bring their own abilities, while inherited characters arrive with varied traits, so the next expedition begins with a different person to learn. Progress also takes place between lives. Spend collected gold on the manor to improve your successors' prospects, equip weapons and armour, and acquire movement options such as dashing and air jumping. Individual characters are lost, but investing in the family connects those attempts. The recurring task is to explore with the current heir while building advantages for whoever follows.
Collected in series
Rogue Legacy turns repeated dungeon expeditions into a family inheritance, with a new heir taking over after each death. Side-scrolling combat and jumping meet changing layouts, unusual character traits and permanent upgrades that carry progress between generations.
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AI review
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Best suited to players who enjoy making another attempt with a different heir and a stronger family.
Manor upgrades can give unsuccessful expeditions a useful outcome, while changing castles and descendants ask players to adapt rather than repeat an identical route. That combination is likely to suit persistence-minded players more than those who want to keep one character throughout.
Strengths
- Spending expedition gold on the manor can make a lost character feel like part of longer-term progress.
- Different classes and changing castles provide concrete reasons to revise an approach.
Weaknesses
- Repeatedly losing the current character may remain frustrating if permanent upgrades do not offset the feeling of starting again.
Who it is for: Players who enjoy platforming attempts, adapting to new character abilities and gradually improving a persistent upgrade system.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension The alternation between expeditions and manor spending can provide intermediate goals even when a particular heir fails. | Reviewed | 8.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Changing classes and castle layouts should favour learning adaptable habits over relying on one fixed route. | Reviewed | 8.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The family-succession framing can turn replacement characters into a continuing lineage rather than disconnected retries. | Reviewed | 7.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Pro Controller support gives players who prefer that controller a documented option for their platforming attempts. | Reviewed | 8.4 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Cellar Door GamesAbstraction Games
- Publisher
- Cellar Door Games
- Release date
- 2018
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Action · Primary genre
- Tags
- Puzzle SolvingLinear Levels3D GraphicsSolo-friendlyExplorationMain Story 10–20 HoursThird PersonSlow BurnStory-drivenInvestigation
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Side view
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2013
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwide2018
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Sources
- www.nintendo.comSource revision: 1
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