
ROSE is a violent rogue-lite arena shooter where you sacrifice your body parts to progress and gain new weapons and abilities. Slaughter waves of monstrous enemies and defeat titanic bosses in randomized arenas or die trying!
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ROSE is a violent arena shooter with rogue-like elements. Create your own builds by sacrificing parts of your body or reversing the sacrifices to gain boost and new abilities. Unlock new weapons, enhance them with powerful upgrades. Progress through randomized arenas, defeat demented enemies and vanquish titanic bosses to uncover the dark story. What are you willing to sacrifice to save your lost daughter Rose?

Sacrifice your flesh and blood
After each arena has been cleared you can choose from several sacrifices. Sacrifices will increase the complexity and difficulty of the game. Each body part sacrificed will add new mechanics and will change the game in a meaningful way.
Each sacrifice will increase your stress level, with enough stress you can reverse a sacrifice to gain a new ability instead.
Ever-changing arenas
Arenas are randomly selected from dozens of pre-made layouts. Traps, enemies and other objects are procedurally spawned. Each arena can spawn multiple waves of enemies.
In some arenas you can figh for additional rewards. In such cases, enemies will spawn with a special rule-set, forcing you to strategize and change your play style to complete the rule objective.
Not all the arenas are created equal, some may offer special mid-run upgrades or present you with an additional challenge in the form of a mini-boss.
Weapons and abilities
Each weapon provides a unique gameplay experience, some can even alter the maps themselves.
The gun selection ranges from a simple revolver to a demented gun which consumes your blood for ammo and punishes you each time you miss.
Unlock new weapons, upgrade them every time you die, then jump into battle once more!
Enemies and bosses
Enemies spawn in waves. After you clear a certain number of waves, the sacrificial altar will unlock, and you will move to a new arena. Some arenas may spawn bosses instead of regular enemies.
Story
Rose tells a story about life, death and hope.
You will find out more about the story by progressing through the arenas, special encounters, defeating bosses and dying.

Features:
Sacrifice your flesh and blood to progress
Reverse sacrifices to gain boosts instead
Unlock and upgrade unique weapons
Slaughter waves of demented enemies
Defeat titanic bosses
Progress through the randomized arenas to uncover the dark story
Avoid traps and other procedurally placed obstacles
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Languages: English
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Reviews
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underrated
ROSE, ilerlemek ve yeni silahlar ve yetenekler kazanmak için vücut parçalarınızı feda ettiğiniz şiddetli bir rogue-lite arena nişancı oyunudur. Canavar düşman dalgalarını katlet ve rastgele arenalarda devasa bossları yen veya şansını denerken öl!
This game confuses me. It has a decent story, it's not RDR2 but it gives meaning to the game loop and has some actual substance in terms of theme. The visual design is honestly outstanding for a free game by a solo dev. The core mechanics are satisfying and the game is overall enjoyable. The thing is, the game design is pretty bad. First there's the performance issues. There are so settings to disable but the game ♥♥♥♥♥ itself during pretty much every bossfight. Then there's the roguelike design; there isn't much variety in rooms from run to run but there are more bosses than there are bossfights per run. Putting variation into the bosses but not the rooms seemed weird to me. The biggest thing is the weapons. The weapons are all enjoyable to use and all quite powerful and then there's one which allows you to kill every boss in roughly 5 seconds. The game allows you to stack up huge damage multipliers using gun abilities which is nice because it forces you to use strategy but some of the abilities are just stupid broken. On the other side there's the blood daggers which while not terrible, are so much more annoying to use than the guns so I would never choose it during a run. There's also the totems which are very unbalanced. The healing totem is so much stronger than the others because it's the only defensive one and the weapons do enough damage as is. There's a few other details but the game design is just overall very weird and feels not very thought through. If this was a $10 game then those issues would make this a not recommend, but this game is free so I can easily overlook them. It's still a fun game, I just think there are quite a few weird quirks with it.
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positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
once you learn the mechanics and keybinds it is a pretty enjoyable game
Honestly shouldn't be free, it's a LOT of fun and all of the concepts are amazing and done very well.
I almost married this game. https://youtu.be/HGDhDYedyhs?si=VyC7DtlAmAEQaxFM
Игра ROSE Online - это ностальгическое путешествие в прошлое MMORPG. С одной стороны, она очаровывает своим классическим, немного устаревшим стилем, предлагая мир, полный очаровательных монстров и широких возможностей для кастомизации персонажа. Система профессий довольно глубокая, позволяя развивать своего героя в различных направлениях, а комьюнити, хоть и небольшое, достаточно дружелюбное и отзывчивое. Однако, с другой стороны, игра страдает от ряда проблем. Графика, очевидно, устарела и может оттолкнуть современных игроков. Grind может быть невероятно утомительным, требуя много часов фарма для достижения прогресса. Кроме того, встречаются технические проблемы, такие как баги и нестабильность серверов. В целом, ROSE Online - игра для тех, кто ищет ностальгию по старым MMORPG и готов простить ей явные недостатки ради уникального опыта. Если вам нравятся классические механики, хардкорный grind и вы не боитесь устаревшей графики, то возможно, стоит попробовать. В противном случае, лучше посмотреть в сторону более современных проектов.
very peak game, i cant believe more people havent found it yet. could use some more features tho tbh
As someone who doesn't usually play roguelites, ROSE really surprised me. It's challenging at first, but once you learn the mechanics and unlock new weapons, it becomes incredibly rewarding. The art style is pretty nice and the soundtrack perfectly captures the atmosphere. I'm not finished yet, but I'm already hooked and looking forward to seeing where it goes.
I wish there were more unlockables but I really enjoyed my playtime so far
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