Rogue Command

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.

Rogue Command is a very approachable roguelite RTS, to the point that it may even be a good introduction to the genre. It's so approachable for a few reasons. You have infinite slow-mo, practically a pause, guaranteeing you'll never get overwhelmed. The game starts you off with only a few units, allowing you to build up complexity at your own pace. Any information you need is clearly displayed with tooltips and hoverable keywords. For more experienced players, the idea of creating your own faction from a selection of units and giving them unique upgrades is very interesting. There are many ways to play, with unique engineers, harvesters, and specialist units to choose from. The visuals are simple and clear, with enough detail to be appealing. The audio is fun and matches the mood enough that I never found myself wanting to mute it for my own music. Overall, a project for the dev to be proud of. There are only two problems, which I noticed during my 36 hours playtesting the game, and continue to see in the official release. 1. Performance. Obviously the game was not built with performance as the primary concern; most games aren't. But it can show quite readily as levels load in slowly, or the game can start to slow down as battles get more intense. 2. Centralizing strategies + some units are just better than others. Most of your resources are harvested, while the enemy's resources are all infinitely generated. This inherently puts you on a clock. You will never win a war of attrition. That means turtling is difficult, and requires specific builds. Booming can be effective, but the best play will always be to rush. Some units are just better for rushing. They need to be cheap, easy to mass, high damage, and able to cross the map quickly. The best unit for this is the MP Chargebot. You can forego building a refinery and simply build 80 MP Chargebots, which are practically guaranteed to flatten the enemy base before even 1 minute has passed. Meta progression allows you to bypass their few shortcomings, and also start with them every run. Once you figure these kinds of strategies out, the game does become a bit more boring. You basically have to intentionally not choose overpowered units like the MP Chargebot to maintain difficulty.

9/10 Almost 70 hours played and 100% achievements. Rogue Command is an incredibly, incredibly fun RTS. It combines two of my favorite genres, RTS and roguelite, in a way that feels fresh. There’s a lot of complexity hidden behind simple design, especially in how Engineers, Specialists, and Harvesters shape your strategy. The themed roguelite upgrades are probably my favorite part. They naturally push you toward specific builds, and watching those upgrades come together into a coherent strategy is incredibly satisfying. On higher difficulties, though, viable builds become more limited. Sound effects are top quality and make combat feel great. I think other RTS developers can take notes from Rogue Command as it is today. It shows how much depth you can get from simple systems. My main criticism is missing quality-of-life options, especially auto-cast/auto-use for some abilities. 9/10. Great game.

Great roguelite RTS. Fast-pased, diverse, and challenging.

Removes a lot of the annoying parts of a standard RTS, like the excessive micro and the need for speed, focusing more on the strategic aspect. That alone deserves a Recommend. Soundtrack is really good too.

It's really, really good. Actually maybe the most satisfying RTS available as of right now, it also has quite a lot of content already. The game is already a solid 7/10, could be way better with a clearer UI, less "basic" menus and slightly more details on the world terrain and its obstacles.

This game is such a fresh take on the RTS strategy. So many directions you can explore to expand on features, and the base already has high replay value. This could be so interesting multiplayer too. make it a loading feature and each player gets points to build a deck, and then can play against one another with said deck being locked. Or each player builds a deck of X cards, and then they become the pool that everyone builds a deck from. Or, just have a few different set of game rules. so many options! Like a distilled version of Supreme Commander with all the fun rogue-lite features added. If you do this, make an API for giving it commands - Would be interesting to wire up agents and let them battle it out.