Rogue Legacy 2

Rogue Legacy 2 is a genealogical rogue-lite built around randomized runs, changing characters and persistent upgrades. When a hero dies, their heir continues the family legacy. You spend your parents’ inheritance to improve the family manor, giving future heirs a better chance. Each child has distinct traits and abilities, so every run offers a different character and set of choices. You can move quickly through the randomly generated world or take time to build up your character before facing greater challenges.

Explore the kingdom

Each time you enter the Kingdom, you encounter new monsters, traps and layouts, making improvisation more important than memorizing the world. Biomes use different generation strategies to create regions that remain randomized but have distinct layouts. The game uses 2.5D visuals, with 3D characters against hand-drawn backdrops, heavy shading and stepped animation.

Heirlooms are special items that permanently grant new abilities and reveal more of the world. These powers can fundamentally change how you play, rather than simply unlocking a door or passage. You must prove your worth to obtain them, if you can find them.

Choose an heir

Rogue Legacy 2 has 15 new classes, each with a distinct play style. Rangers can hide atop Ivy Canopies and fire poisoned arrows, while Dragon Lancers fly through the air to strike foes at high speed. Bards sing and dance through enemies. Heirs also have traits, and more debilitating traits offer larger gold rewards, making each choice of successor consequential.

Relics and resolve

Relics change how a run plays by providing stat modifiers, special challenges or new abilities. The more Relics you collect, the more your resolve is shaken, and all Relics are lost if your hero dies.

Story and replaying

The sequel expands the world’s lore across multiple New Game+ playthroughs. Discover the collapse of a once-thriving kingdom, uncover the secrets of those responsible and build relationships with the characters you meet. Beating the final boss opens further playthroughs, where you choose how the challenge increases, including through biome hazards and special boss fights.

Ways to play

House Rules let you adjust contact damage, global damage and health, or enable flight for difficult platforming sections. Off-shore Banking offers another way for struggling players to succeed. The game also includes Scar Challenges, Fairy Rooms and the Curio Shoppe, alongside more traits, spells, classes, biomes, enemies, equipment, rooms, story and secrets.