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Cellar Door Games Action & adventure Platformer Role playing. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and iOS. Rogue Legacy 2 is what youd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. On the latest episode of High Resolution, the Byteside videogames industry podcast, Cellar Door Games co-founder and designer Teddy Lee details the tricky path to capturing success a second time.įrom finding popularity with Rogue Legacy, the commercial struggles of the studio's follow-up in Full Metal Furies, to the surprisingly emotional Early Access journey of Rogue Legacy 2, Lee explains it all.Īlso, there's a little discussion about the studio's early Flash games, including Don't Shit Your Pants, a game we've all played IRL at some point in our lives. Rogue Legacy is a 2013 platform game with roguelike elements developed and published by Cellar Door Games. It's a compelling loop filled with homages to classic 2D adventure games like Metroid and Castlevania. Bequeathed loot accumulated during each run, you spend gold to upgrade each subsequent character so you're a bit more powerful for the next attempt. The game was released for Microsoft Windows. Now, nearly 10 years after the original, Rogue Legacy 2 is another shining example of the highly replayable roguelike genre.įrom Canadian studio Cellar Door Games, the Rogue Legacy series sees you fight through a castle, where upon death, you assume the role of the protagonist's heir. Rogue Legacy is a 2013 platform game with roguelike elements developed and published by Cellar Door Games. The developer's next game, which it started working on in early March, likely won't play at all like Rogue Legacy, a platformer 'rogue-lite' with imspiration from Demon's Souls and Castlevania.
