Rogue Command

Rogue Command dimostra che il genere degli strategici in tempo reale ha ancora molto da dire. Gli sviluppatori hanno unito le solide basi degli RTS classici con elementi roguelike e deckbuilding, creando un'esperienza fresca, dinamica e sorprendentemente coinvolgente. Ogni partita inizia con la classica raccolta di risorse e costruzione della base, ma è la progressione tra una missione e l'altra a fare la differenza. Nuove tecnologie, edifici e potenziamenti permettono di creare build sempre diverse, spingendo il giocatore a sperimentare e ad adattare continuamente la propria strategia. Tra le caratteristiche più riuscite spicca il sistema di rallentamento del tempo, che rende la gestione delle battaglie più accessibile senza sacrificare la profondità tattica. Le mappe procedurali e le numerose combinazioni di unità aumentano ulteriormente la rigiocabilità, rendendo ogni run diversa dalla precedente. Non mancano però alcuni limiti: il bilanciamento di determinate unità può essere migliorato e l'intelligenza artificiale mostra occasionalmente qualche incertezza nella gestione delle truppe. Si tratta comunque di difetti che incidono poco su un'esperienza complessivamente molto solida. Rogue Command è una piacevole sorpresa, capace di innovare senza tradire lo spirito degli RTS classici. Un titolo consigliato sia agli appassionati del genere sia a chi cerca uno strategico originale, ricco di contenuti e con un'elevata rigiocabilità. Se volete divertirvi con noi ci trovate sul nostro canale discord : https://discord.gg/Qw7eRbW4w6

incredible experience! As a long time rts player it felt natural. I tend to shy away from any rogue components, but I remain impressed with the range and dynamism of the game. Polished and still fresh 300 hours in.

TLDR: If you love RTS and Roguelite, it's a must buy. Definitely worth for its bucks. Tad bit longer review: What an absolute gem. You start with RNG, get a crappy starter unit and a dream to finish your run. Every node gives something to help. Either army-wide buffs, or unit type enhancements and more you go more type and higher tier of units you get your deck. It is simple, easy to dive in and fun to experiment. Revolve around expensive units that crushing everything, or take a defensive stance and melt them with turrets, or heck go to a massive swarm, cheap, discardable but unstoppable torrent, or even dot builds are possible, burn them, alight their base and units and cause a massive firestorm that destroy everything. You also have talents to enhance your gameplay and ascension to welcome more challenge. More run you done, more units, abilities and talent points you will get.

Yes folks, in roguelikes it's 100% possible to get a bad run and be rolled off the hop. Bad units, bad tech, whatever. All part of the beauty when you get good rolls and have runs when you feel super OP! This game is pretty great! The only complaint I have is that occasionally a map might have a really thick layer of fog making it really challenging to see anything underneath. If thats intentional or a settings thing, totally on me. But that would be my complaint. I've had plenty of matches where I was sure defeat was inevitable but managed to turn it around, where there's a will theres a way! Unlock more stuff, get more options on your runs!

This is the best RTS I've ever played. The feeling of "breaking the game" is incredible and validates why this RTS benefits so much from the roguelike mechanics. Infecting the enemy backlines with0 spider eggs and seeing them burst and swarm like a wave over the battlefield is pure dopamine. The difficulty never feels cheap, even up to ascension 15, if you can focus your strategy you can win. I love the amount of unlocks and progression as well. Just great all around game. A sequel with the same gameplay but a full story would be great! Something as simple as audio logs and occasional motion comics would go a long way. Simply put, this game is as close to objectively perfect for what it wants to achieve as any game I've ever played. 5/5

I have played most RTS games that I could find ever since I started way back with the original Command and Conquer and have lamented what has become of the genre over the past 10-15 years and I had a blast with this game and a lot of fun in ways that surprised me. In particular, there are a few game design decisions that are specific to the genre that I want to praise. So basic setup: you first pick your engineer, your builder who is also you, like the ACU you play as in Supreme Commander. Fairly squisy, but very important. They you pick your crystal harvester, how you harvest the money in the game. Last, you pick a special, universally strong unit paired with a powerful buff. Such as the spider bot which creates an occasional spawned unit automatically and without cost, which also has a debuff they can cast which causes the killed enemy unit to explode into multiple spider spawns, and is paired with a big buff to spawned units. The engineer calls in buildings during the game which only produce a specific unit. The buildings come with a unit that spawns at the building, unless you pick the combat engineer, which caused newly created units to spawn at his location, which gives you a mobile spawn points so your units are created instantly on your front line. Now, really smart design decisions: First, as a single player game only, it doesn't have to worry about maintaining a competitive balance, it only has to worry about being fun. I disliked the direction RTS games took with alongside Starcraft 2 where the choices for the design decisions they took was towards faster APM, and more micro, and balancing around how the pros play the game. Which means that there get to be fun, occasional OP combos that only you, the player, get to have without worrying about it getting nerfed into the ground because it broke the pro meta and just joyfully blow everything up. I also hate a lot of micro. This game makes micro easy with really well thought out hotkeys. As you get new units, the buildings for them fill in on the keyboard starting at the 'Q' key and moving right, 'W' 'E' 'R' ect. And when you select your units, if they have an ability, of which most do, about 70-75%, they fill in in the same order, with Q being the earliest units ability and moving to the right on the keyboard, giving you both many options via abilities and an easy way to pick which ones you want, when you want. The Tab key selects all your unit production buildings, which means that you can be out fighting or exploring, hit a quick button and see which of your units you can build more of at the moment. With a few taps of keys, you queue up more and as many of the units as you can, either to replace losses, or because you've been letting your resources build up as you explore, and then you hit 1 and are back to controlling your army. The whole thing will take less then 5 seconds. The space bar slows down the game, a la Warhammer Total War, to the perfect speed to be slow enough that even the craziest battles don't become overwhelming, but fast enough that I don't have to turn it off after I make my choices for things to start happening. The way you start your choices at the beginning makes each variation feel just different enough that they feel like different factions. There is enough depth to each of the different builds and some easy access to rerolls, that the skills aren't diluted enough so you can get most of the units and abilities you want for your build on that run. There is an upgrade you can get a handful of hours in that seriously reduces the HP of all the units of the first two levels. It's genius. It basically jumpstarts getting your build up and running and sets you up for the meat of the game. It gives you a lot of choice and flexibility in difficulty, which is much appreciated. I ended up having so much fun with this game. Easily worth full price and steal in any deal.

Surprisingly good game. Lots of units. Lots of replayability.

great game! hope for more content, larger maps and expanded gameplay! 2-4 player co-op would be an interesting twist!

Starcraft roguelite. I'm in love with it, I need more!

I want to give it a "meh" instead of negative.. I won my first run, on the hardest difficulty, not very roguelite.. Seems like it is too random what upgrades you get, and even though I won on the first run, I didn't even get great synergies / strong power-ups… Some maps are insanely narrow (less branching pathways, or the paths only being short and ending in dead ends), which are really easy to beat the enemy on. Others are branching nightmares, which the AI can and will exploit I like the slowdown mechanics, especially since you will be fighting on 2-4 fronts I like the rewards between mission not just being “1 and done” but multiple smaller upgrades I like the sounds and general feel of the game. But at the time of writing, it feels very simplistic and not very challenging. Almost like a demo.. Game got potential, but feels flat as it is