Rogue Command

Rogue Command is a single-player RTS in which you control units, build a base, harvest resources, explore the map and defend and attack positions. Each run changes the rules of the battlefield, and every battle gives you a chance to try new strategies. You can slow time to 10% at any moment to issue orders.

Choose tools between battles

After each battle, choose tools for the fights ahead, either reinforcing your strengths or taking your build in a new direction. Blueprints add buildings to your Engineer’s construction database, including unit factories, defensive turrets, healing spires and super weapons. Upgrades modify blueprints, strengthening units or giving them traits that can create synergies, such as burn damage or spawning exploding creatures when they die. Hacks are powerful tech-relics that alter game rules, for example by changing a status effect, making burning enemies flee or adding healing to teleports.

Each run, whether you win or lose, unlocks new building blocks for your arsenal and entries in a database of malfunctioning Engineers across the galaxy. Hundreds of units, hacks and upgrades can be built and tested in battle.

Permanent improvements

Runs earn archive tokens, which unlock permanent improvements in the Battle Archive’s skill tree. You can invest heavily in a particular trait, spread points across smaller bonuses or unlock ways to control randomness.

Prepare for a run

Before each run, choose your Engineer, Economy and Specialist. Your Engineer appears on the map, calls down buildings and controls armies; losing the Engineer ends the run. Your choice of Refinery and Harvester models determines your economy. The Specialist forms the foundation of your build and fights in combat, with each Specialist changing the rules of the battlefield. Specialist Hacks can push their traits further.

Other choices include:

• Castle: provides strong defense and global artillery strikes.
• Incinerator: spreads smart fire across the battlefield, burning enemies and aiding allies.
• Recycler: summons Robo Zombos from fallen units, turning death into a resource.
• Support Tank: gives lifesaving buffs to your squads.
• Swarm Walker: infects enemies with Spider Spawn Eggs.
• Mantis: feeds on its allies to gain strength.
• Rush Beacons: quickly establish map presence and mobility.
• Phase Walker: teleports itself and its squad, granting buffs and causing havoc.

Enemies and battlefields

The planet-devouring Planetary Core Extraction Corporation (PCX) has spread across the galaxy. It is opposed by occasional Engineers with crystalline consciousness infections. Dozens of enemy variants command armies with more than 150 units and buildings, and battlefields and conditions vary between runs.

Sunstorms disable shields on both sides, thunderstorms extinguish fires, and sandstorms reduce attack range. These conditions can help or hinder you depending on your build and your enemy.

Ascensions and Heat Levels

A first victory leads to 15 Ascensions, each with unique bosses and escalating challenges. As you progress, your command develops, the Battle Archive fills out and you can discover new combinations to defeat enemies that previously overcame you, leading up to a final challenge. For further difficulty, Heat Levels scale infinitely.