Rome Goes Rogue

Rome Goes Rogue

Justin Dalebout · October 10, 2024 · Action, Action Roguelike, Platformer, Roguelike, Sandbox

Rome Goes Rogue is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Rome Goes Rogue price

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About Rome Goes Rogue

Rome (the penguin) Goes Rogue is a sandbox-y physics based take on the roguelite genre with emphasis on chaining combos and attacks taking place in a submarine with randomly generated chaos. Use abilities, props, hazards and your flippers to stop the robots and escape the submarine.
  • A Submarine with randomly pick floors, enemies, hazards and props
  • Random enemy and prop placement, stats, and behaviors
  • 25+ Upgrades and abilities
  • 20 Mutators that can vary the game
  • Custom Game mode, where you can edit almost every stat in the game
  • Physics based combat system
  • Unique randomized hazards that spawn on every floor
  • Built in level editor
  • Available for Mac & Linux
  • Penguins
  • Be able to kill enemies with anything
  • And random goals through out each floor!
  • Rome Goes Rogue — game info

    Platforms
    Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
    Player modes
    Single-player
    PC Game Pass
    Not included
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    What Steam players say

    Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

    Recommended Jul 8, 2025
    ⠀
    7 found this helpful
    Not recommended Jan 3, 2025
    This game gave me stage 4 lung cancer I'm gonna start cooking meth
    2 found this helpful
    Recommended May 9, 2025
    It even has a level editor?!
    1 found this helpful
    Recommended Mar 14, 2025
    [b] Rome Goes Rogue is one of the most chaotic, physics-infused, bite-sized and surprisingly fun rougelikes I've ever played! [/b] You would think that a game where everything is randomly generated and crap comes flying at your face faster than you can blink would get annoying, but it doesn't. Like I said, it's genuinely fun, which I think comes down to how powerful your moves are: your standard attack and invincible flying dodge roll give you enough movement capabilities and attack power to mow down enemies and zip through levels very easily IF you know how to use them correctly, so you retain some feeling of control and a capacity to increase your skill level while you play the game. That said, this part of the game is also the most frustrating for me. [u] The big issue is the dodge roll: [/u] it's super fast, makes you invincible while active, and easily blows through objects and enemies alike, but it bounces around like CRAZY when you hit a wall and goes insanely fast especially if you bump into a moving physics object. This becomes a problem when you try do a dodge roll for some precise platforming or to dodge an attack, but the dodge roll goes on for way too long and not in…
    1 found this helpful
    Recommended Jun 3, 2026
    is good
    Recommended Sep 14, 2025
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