Streets of Rogue Now in Free Open Alpha

Streets of Rogue Free Open Alpha Available Now 

Recently announced was Streets of Rogue, a very different style of Roguelike mixed in with RPG elements. Think Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex. Below are some key points and information about the game:

• It’s in Open Alpha, so anyone can download it, play it, record videos, etc
• Official announcement blog post with download instructions
• Gameplay Rundown

It’s also playable at PAX West this weekend so you’ll have a change to swing by and say hi to Matt Dabrowski, the game’s developer. Check out the trailer for the game below:

About the game:

Streets of Rogue is a rogue-lite about player choice, freedom, and anarchic fun. The game takes inspiration from fast-paced top-down rogue-lites like Binding of Isaac and Nuclear Throne, and adds free-form, experimentation-driven, emergent gameplay elements of RPGs like Deus Ex.

Rather than taking place in a dungeon, the game is set in a functioning, procedurally generated city, where complex AI informs denizens from all walks of life, who are just trying to get by in their daily activities.

In order to progress, the player will need to accomplish specific mission goals in any way they see fit through use of their special character traits, items, and the environment.

• Will you play as a soldier who shoots first and asks questions later?
• A stealthy scientist who uses chloroform and tranquilizer darts to silently take down the opposition?
• A genial bartender who can talk his way past the most intimidating of guards?
• Or how about a hyper-intelligent gorilla, rescuing other caged gorillas to form a small mobilized gorilla army?

• Play the game YOUR way! Don’t want to kill anybody? That’s cool! Want to hack computers? Got ya covered!
• Random world generation and TOTALLY EXTREME gameplay variety means you can play for 600 hours and not get bored! Seriously though, go outside!!!
• Super-advanced artificial intelligence that won’t put up with your crap! Outsmart these virtual humans and feel superior to your computer!
• Play as over 40 types of characters (in the final version)! Bartender, scientist, hacker, gorilla — hey, your job is probably in there too!
• Stupidly huge number of items (in the final version)! Shrink rays, hypnotizing devices, boomboxes, bear traps, food processors.. Oh, and guns too.
• 2-Player cooperative mode lets you brutalize goons AND loneliness!
• Lead a gang, free slaves, drink beer, gib ghosts, become a vampire, shrink people and stomp on them. The most insanely varied game ever made.