ROSE
Zakroutil · 2024 · FPS, Roguelite, Arena Shooter, Action Roguelike, Fast-Paced
PC
Very Positive87% · 167
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About ROSE
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
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
DLC & expansions
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[h1] Arena shooter with quirky visuals. Shoot down flying eyes and other demon scum. Music is ok. Gameplay is a bit unintuitive and buggy. If you're looking for arena styled FPS with roguelike elements here are some games to recommend: Tower of Guns, Mothergunship, Fancy Skulls, Paranautical Activity, Bunker Punks. [/h1]4 found this helpful
Interesting game, though personally it's not for me. It's a small arena shooter and with some weird mechanics which I personally can't describe outside of killing enemies will heal you. Game ran rather smoothly with my only complaint is how you need to pre select a weapon before being able to enter the next run, which I had to go into this game's discussions page to find out. Clarity ingame about doing this, would be an improvement.
once you learn the mechanics and control it is a pretty enjoyable game
pretty good game very good for ppl like me with adhd brains
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…
this game made my rose toy jealous
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