Rogue Heroes Ruins Of Tasos Review (Steam)

Rogue Heroes is a 1-4 player classic adventure game with modern rogue-lite elements. Team up with friends to combat procedural dungeons, explore an expansive overworld full of secrets, and take down the Titans to save the once peaceful land of Tasos.

Pros:

• Nice pixel art graphics.
• Download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Controller support.
• Graphics-fullscreen and resolution.
• 3 ways to play- Single player, local co-op, and online co-op.
• Can rebind controls.
• 3 save slots and you set your icon and color.
• Character creator-skin/hair/cloak colours.
• Optional tutorial.
• Takes a lot of ideas and designs from Zelda.
• Stamina-goes down with attacks and blocking. If you run out it will regen slowly but your attacks will be weaker.
• Beautiful animations.
• Pop-ups happen when you find new points of interest, fast travel points, and even mission/task/achievements/rank progress, and it’s satisfying to see.
• Altars act as fast travel points.
• Can see enemy health bars and their difficulty rating.
• Break pots, chests, barrels, and bushes for loot.
• In dungeons, you can buy shortcuts to floors.
• Simple hack and slash combat.
• Co-op is 2-4 players.
• Town-you can buy and place new shops and homes in the town.
• Home-you can unlock and place/decorate your own home whenever and however you like along with making it bigger.
• Death-puts you back at home.
• Map and points of interest fill in as you play.
• Main quests along with optional side quests.
• Dungeons randomize the layout and loot.
• Day/night cycle with rain.
• Thread shop-once bought you can unlock and change classes with more classes available as you play. Eight in total.
• Forge-allows you to spend gems so you can upgrade your sword.
• Fitness Centre-once built you can upgrade your stamina with gems.
• Clinic-once built you can upgrade your health with gems.
• Excellent fun in multiplayer.
• Book of beasts-kill enemies with it to enter their details and discover weak points.
• Produce stall-here you can sell your veg and the price changes depending on demand.
• Glass items/weapons-these are things you can use only until you die.
• Room clear-this is a bonus that happens if you kill all enemies and find all/any secrets in a room.

Cons:

• Slow initial load.
• Constant difficulty spikes.
• Hit detection is horrible in terms of snakes in bottles as they always get a hit in.
• Slow starter.
• Dungeon tiles repeat themselves often.
• It is fine in single-player but it’s not as good as in multiplayer.
• Can easily get lost on the world map.
• Clear yet annoying roadblocks to gate you off.