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In the rush to invent, conquer, and create, the ultimate consequences are sometimes forgotten.
Earth lies in ruin. Our ever advancing Aether technology opened a rift to another time, unleashing an ancient beast upon the galaxy. Known as the Destroyer, this massive creature travels from world to world devouring the Aether in planet cores only to leave a dead shell in its wake.
You play as a Galactic Cadet, tasked with traveling to hostile planets in search of precious resources before The Destroyer rips through the planet core. Team up with friends, gather resources, and craft powerful gear on your home planet so you can aid the fight to save the galaxy!Features:
- Explore Procedurally Generated Worlds: Each world is generated as you and your Combat Squad beam down. With exotic creatures, hostile monsters, and unique ores and vegetation, each planet provides a different experience and challenge that will test your skill and knowledge of survival in Roguelands.
- Unique Crafting System Gathering resources in Roguelands is unlike any other game. Instead of using a pickaxe or a hatchet to gather resources from ore deposits and trees, you command your Droids to do all of the work for you! Droids have different passive abilities and can cut down trees, mine ores, gather herbs, and even fight for you in combat. Once you’ve acquired 10 pieces of any loot, you can craft an Emblem. Combine any 3 Emblems at the Gear Forge to acquire a new piece of gear and expand your recipe log!
- Permanent Death, but Permanent Progress Upon death your Galactic Cadet will die: losing all weapons, armor, and loot in their inventory. But anything that you’ve stored back on your ship will remain persistent across ALL of your characters! After tons of character deaths you’ll have permanently unlocked new Races, Variants, Augments, and Starting Uniforms that you can mix and match to create a unique play style. Also, any upgrades to your ship and saved NPCs will be permanent, so your new characters can have access to all of your hard earned resources!
- Master Every Weapon Type & Variant: Roguelands features tons of exciting weapon types that players can experiment with. By progressing further through the galaxy by slaying monsters and crafting items, players will unlock new weapon variants with unique stats and randomly generated augments. Craft the perfect piece of gear through combining and forging!
- Collect All Combat Chips: Every Galactic Cadet can equip up to five Combat Chips before beaming out to a planet. These special augments can provide not only passive buffs for you and your squad, but also active abilities such as teleportation or enabling the use of Darkfire. Through exploration of both hostile planets and neutral cities and towns, players will amass a collection of these powerful chips and enable a variety of playstyles and character archetypes.
- Unlock the Secrets Behind the Destroyer & the Scourge: The more NPCs you save, the more knowledge you’ll acquire about the galaxy’s chaotic and mysterious history. Where did the Destroyer come from? What is its true purpose?
Game Discussion
Steam User 13
Best unfinished game I've ever played. A friend gave me a dubiously legal copy in middle school, and I loved it so much that I came back and bought it for real once I had my own computer. Seriously great on its own despite not actually being finished, with a bunch of community-made mods to smooth down the rougher, less complete parts of the game.
Steam User 7
likely abandonware, but i hold very special memories with this game, playing it co-op with one of my longtime friends. probably not actually an enriching experience, but when you have willing friends, this is quite fun. i guess that can be said for most games, but hey, this applies :)
Steam User 3
Similar to many games but has its charm. It gets boring after a while, especially in the endgame. Sometimes I didn't know what to do next. After a few years, when I've forgotten about this game, I'll play it again just for the nostalgia.
Steam User 6
Is Roguelands worth buying in 2025?
Short answer: absolutely not.
What you're reading now is a love letter to a game I adored nearly a decade ago — but without any sugarcoating or pretending it’s perfect. I'm speaking as someone who unlocked every weapon, maxed out every upgrade, completed all 12 endings, and defeated every Ultra Boss. And even from that perspective, I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone today.
Here is some old SS:
Combat & Mechanics
Combat at start is slow but after a while it changes to you spaming same buttons and atacks, after some times it became repetitive. While there’s a wide variety of weapons and classes, balance is pretty much non-existent. A handful of weapon combos are just absurdly overpowered and can melt everything before it even gets close.
And then there are the bugs. Oh boy:
- You can duplicate items easily. (Open atack menu and inventory at the same time)
- You can turn any weapon into a maxed-out legendary. (just do the questline with big worm where you get in the city special legendary wepon, you can get them infinitly)
- If your character dies? Just cut power to your PC and the game reverts to your last save. No joke. (Alt+f4 dont work)
The game did receive a big update years ago introducing Ultra Bosses, which actually offer a real challenge. But even that wasn’t finished properly — one boss still doesn’t drop a helmet, only two pairs of pants....
Solo or Co-op?
Solo play can be fun for a while, but once you hit around 50 hours, you’ve seen pretty much everything.
Co-op could breathe some life into the game — if you can find people to play with. Unfortunately, Roguelands has no official online multiplayer. The only way to play together is over LAN using workarounds like Hamachi, which is a hassle.
Final verdict:
If you're feeling nostalgic, know exactly what you’re getting into, and have friends willing to set up LAN — sure, maybe you’ll squeeze some fun out of it.
But if you’re new in 2025? Stay away. It's buggy, unbalanced, unsupported, and stuck in the past.
Steam User 0
If you're worried about getting too attached to a particular character, you can just do what I did and accidentally create an immortal shapeshifter with no clear powers or allegiances, by naming every single new cadet Floopy. He cannot be deterred, he always comes back, and his name was supposed to be Floppy but I typed an extra 'o'. Overall, fun game! They reward you for dying, so Floopy gets rewarded a lot. (He's great at his job.)
Steam User 0
love/hate relationship
massive grinding game and u can grind faster by being more skilled but would also make the rage 100% more effective if u progressed a lot and die
better with friends
Steam User 0
The game is great, but i have one problem, its been abandoned. theres tier 4 and 5 emblems that aren't usable for anything. very certain the Dev has no intention of even bothering with any updates to finish it ever.
but overall gameplay is good, monsters look good and its something to do if you want to kill some time