Deadzone: Rogue

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Hours played at review time, across 1.4K reviews with recorded playtime.

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[h1]Deadzone: Rogue, a simple fun[/h1] Deadzone: Rogue is a first person looter shooter roguelite, where player awakes on spaceship without any prior memories and fights through closed hallway arenas full of melee and ranged alien/ robotic enemies. When a room is cleared, there's an upgrade ball from which you get to choose one of three perks to activate for the rest of your run. Sometimes when you kill enemies they drop loot like guns or different armor parts that stay with you for rest of the run. After the run, you return back to hub area and increase your max hp and weapon damage and such and head to the next run. When I emphasize in header this game being simple, I really mean it. Your movement options are wasd, jump, crouch and dash. That's it, no even crouch sliding on this one. Guns are also pretty one-dimensional, expect the more unique ones are locked behind "side runs" that are way too long, like crossbow unlock run takes 20 rooms run to unlock, or plasma minigun which unlock run happens in a single room in wave-form. Only 10% of the perks have more impact like jetpack ability but others are mostly "Granades may be thrown twice or double the size of magazine". The story bits that are present in the game are so limited that when in chapter three there's game's only story choice it feels meaningless because you haven't build any connection to the characters in the game. So why thumb up, even after those criticisms? Because it's simple [b]fun[/b]. It doesn't do anything groundbreaking in the genre, but it gets the core gameplay done good enough that if you play it with one or more friends it's decent fun after a work day. And since it's sequel is already worked on, I hope we get to see enhancements on those criticisms I wrote earlier.