Gameplay
If you want to find a game that represents all the features typical for the roguelike series but still has an easy-to-play style, Immortal Rogue will be one of the best choices.
The player will become a vampire. Well, it makes perfect sense to start like this. Vampires are inherently immortal unless faced with an exorcism squad and are turned to ashes by a series of skillful destructive moves. Otherwise a vampire always stays at the age at which he was transformed into a vampire form.
With the story of Immortal Rogue, you will rise from the loop of 100 years to start going around, searchfor prey, hunt them and enjoy the delicious taste of red blood. But if it stopped there, Immortal Rogue would have been nothing special.
What’s interesting here is that depending on who you choose to hunt and how you fight to reach your food target, your future will directly change. Future here includes both subsequent developments in this life and the beginnings as well as progressions of the next life (when you are reborn).
Each time you come back to life, you are going through a different period. Time, society, context, people around have all changed. That means your enemies, the items present around, and the prey you are about to hunt all change. According to human history, you will battle witches, encountering a series of samurai with only swords and wrecks. Then one day you will have to fight even the crazy robots of the future world. With character going through different contexts, players are immersed in the long historical story of mankind. This combination of story and time variation is indeed quite rare in the roguelike world.
Just like that, Immortal Rogue takes players through a series of challenging battles with more than 70 different types of enemies representing each historical period. Not to mention there are many hidden bosses waiting for you to discover with hundreds of types of “prey”. With prey, Immortal Rogue is completely open to the player’s decisions. You can choose to hunt these characters down, or choose to be allies. Be careful with each decision because they can completely affect the future as a kind of cause-and-effect effect.
The present will directly affect the future
Like it was said, the fight in Immortal Rogue is really brutal. And every decision in the past affects the present, or the choice of the present will affect the future in the next resurrection.
Do you know why? Because the world is always moving, age after age, in which those you have chosen as prey or allies will have their own movements. As you sleep peacefully in your castle, both allies and enemies grow and wait until your next battle. So depending on how you deal with them, they will become hostile or worshipful or some other unclear emotion. Consequence or Result is up to the player’s choice.
It is this unique, tight cause-and-effect relationship that makes Immortal Rogue, from the wording of the plot, so much replayable. Countless timelines, countless characters and thousands of different options will take you to different turns for your challenge.
What happens after each respawn?
Some roguelike games choose to strip the protagonist’s weapons and skills every time you resurrect. However, Immortal Rogue is not so strict.
The game offers over 30 different types of vampire-specific abilities for you to unlock along your way through the ages of history. There are also more than 30 unique weapons for you to own, wage hunting wars or defeat the vampire hunter. In all, there are some weapons, some skills, once collected, will be there forever with you. And then have the graves resurrected after 100 years, you still have them in hand to continue a war in a new age, in a way that is easier to breathe.
Besides, the selection of allies in the past also helps you get certain rewards. These rewards will also accompany you as a form of eternal asset, to continue to support now and into the future.
