Rogue Port - Red Nightmare
Volens Nolens Games · 2016 · Adventure, Indie, RPG, Fantasy, Retro
PC
Mostly Positive76% · 66
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About Rogue Port - Red Nightmare
"Rogue Port - Red Nightmare" is a turn based modern RPG that uses a 16 bit graphic style and an in game day/night calendar system with dynamic lighting where you name your friends and pet dog at the beginning of the game, choose one of three classes for your primary character and answer a series of questions to determine your primary character's stats.
Features include :
- Full Controller Support.
- Dynamic Equipment (main Player's character sprite changes based on what apparel is equipped).
- Day and Night System (1 second is a minute in game time), Calendar System (4 total months for each Season).
- Dynamic Lighting (different lighting in exterior cells based on time).
- Random Trash Can Items (each searchable trash can in the game offers 1 of 3 random items).
- Stamina Sprinting (you can only run until you run out of stamina).
- Temporary Fog of War (cave and dungeon tiles are only visible around the Player in a small radius).
- Secret Chests (every map in the game that has enemies has a secret chest that will only appear when all the enemies are defeated on that map).
- Portals (there are a total of 30 different portals, each appearing on a different day on the calendar regardless of the season).
- Animated Battlers and Backgrounds (enemies you fight in battle are animated as well as the background).
- Dynamic Music (soundtrack will change depending on if it's day or night time).
- Arcade Games (two arcade games that both have unique prizes called "StarShot" and "Jumper" can be played).
- Player's Garden (behind the Player's house, there is a garden that allows them to grow up to 4 crops at once. Crop grade depends on how many times you've watered them before harvest and eating them will increase your max stamina meter).
- Seasonal Town Festival (at the end of each month, a festival starts in the City of Rogue Port where the Mayor will judge contestants crops for a chance at unique prizes that cannot be found elsewhere).
- Original music compositions by Cwglassmusic and Kain Vinosec.
Features include :
- Full Controller Support.
- Dynamic Equipment (main Player's character sprite changes based on what apparel is equipped).
- Day and Night System (1 second is a minute in game time), Calendar System (4 total months for each Season).
- Dynamic Lighting (different lighting in exterior cells based on time).
- Random Trash Can Items (each searchable trash can in the game offers 1 of 3 random items).
- Stamina Sprinting (you can only run until you run out of stamina).
- Temporary Fog of War (cave and dungeon tiles are only visible around the Player in a small radius).
- Secret Chests (every map in the game that has enemies has a secret chest that will only appear when all the enemies are defeated on that map).
- Portals (there are a total of 30 different portals, each appearing on a different day on the calendar regardless of the season).
- Animated Battlers and Backgrounds (enemies you fight in battle are animated as well as the background).
- Dynamic Music (soundtrack will change depending on if it's day or night time).
- Arcade Games (two arcade games that both have unique prizes called "StarShot" and "Jumper" can be played).
- Player's Garden (behind the Player's house, there is a garden that allows them to grow up to 4 crops at once. Crop grade depends on how many times you've watered them before harvest and eating them will increase your max stamina meter).
- Seasonal Town Festival (at the end of each month, a festival starts in the City of Rogue Port where the Mayor will judge contestants crops for a chance at unique prizes that cannot be found elsewhere).
- Original music compositions by Cwglassmusic and Kain Vinosec.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
🛑 Constantly on sale at -90%, and my passion for RPG Maker projects finally made me buy it. It's been 10y since its release, so many factors can be easily understood. The graphics are quite nice, although the font is bad. The tech. part, given the VX Ace capabilities, are terribly implemented. The game begins with nauseating screen shaking, transitions have no animation, door points work incorrectly, but the worst thing is that there are HARDLOCKS, and in ~30 min I managed to stumble upon two of them. The 1st completely disabled enemy battles (don't even know HOW), and the 2nd blocked the dungeon entrance (no reset). This is already a terrible start. I'll probably give the game another chance, but this shows that even old projects need testing. UPD: Played further. There are quite a few bugs that could be fixed in the maker itself (let’s even set aside the questionable game design choices). Why weren't there any patches?3 found this helpful
Pixel nightmare ate my night. Traded potions, lost boots, found portal to bar. Bartender was dragon, tipped him hero coin. Now I nap on keys and dream red moon.1 found this helpful
Toilet boss
Rogue Port – Red Nightmare is an unusual and ambitious indie RPG from Volens Nolens Games, one that blends retro aesthetics with survival elements and a chaotic, unpredictable world. At first glance, it resembles a familiar 16-bit era role-playing game, complete with pixelated environments, turn-based combat, and a top-down overworld. But once you begin your journey, it becomes clear that the developer is aiming for something more experimental. The game places you in a collapsing world where strange creatures, undead horrors, mutants, and hostile wildlife roam freely, and your central goal is deeply personal: locate your missing friends, protect your family, and uncover the truth behind the nightmare engulfing your home. This grounding in community and survival gives the game a tone distinct from most retro RPGs, making it feel like a bizarre apocalypse filtered through nostalgic design. Mechanically, Rogue Port stretches beyond typical RPG conventions. A dynamic calendar and day-night system cycles continuously, altering lighting, available events, and even world behavior as time passes. Maps shift from bright afternoons to eerie dusk, giving the impression that the world is livi…
I liked it, it is a nice game, I recommend it, it will be fun for those who are interested.
boring game
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