Roguelands

Roguelands is a survival adventure set in a galaxy where Earth lies in ruin. Aether technology opened a rift to another time and unleashed the Destroyer, an ancient beast that travels between worlds, consuming the Aether in their planet cores and leaving dead shells behind. You play as a Galactic Cadet, sent to hostile planets to gather resources before the Destroyer reaches their cores. You can team up with friends, craft gear on your home planet and help fight to save the galaxy.

Explore hostile worlds

Worlds are procedurally generated as you and your Combat Squad beam down. Each has its own mix of exotic creatures, hostile monsters, ores and vegetation, bringing different survival challenges. You can also explore neutral cities and towns.

Gather and craft

Rather than mining ore or chopping trees yourself, you command Droids to gather resources. Their passive abilities vary: they can mine ores, cut down trees, collect herbs and fight alongside you. Once you have 10 pieces of any loot, you can craft an Emblem; combine any 3 Emblems at the Gear Forge to get a new piece of gear and expand your recipe log.

Death and lasting progress

When your Galactic Cadet dies, you lose the weapons, armor and loot in their inventory. Items stored on your ship persist across all your characters, as do ship upgrades and saved NPCs, giving new characters access to the resources you have gathered. Across repeated character deaths, you permanently unlock Races, Variants, Augments and Starting Uniforms to mix and match into different play styles.

Weapons and Combat Chips

Roguelands has many weapon types to experiment with. Slaying monsters and crafting items as you progress through the galaxy unlocks weapon variants with unique stats and randomly generated augments. You can combine and forge gear to create the pieces you want.

Each Galactic Cadet can equip up to five Combat Chips before beaming down to a planet. These provide passive buffs for you and your squad, or active abilities such as teleportation and the ability to use Darkfire. Exploring planets, cities and towns lets you collect chips and develop different play styles and character archetypes.

The Destroyer and the Scourge

Saving NPCs reveals more about the galaxy’s chaotic history and the mysteries of the Destroyer and the Scourge, including where the Destroyer came from and its purpose.