One of the very best releases of 2019 was developer Kyle Barret’s Immortal Rogue ($4.99). In fact it feels like a game that just came out a couple of months ago, but in fact we are coming up on the game’s one-year anniversary just one week from today. I haven’t the slightest idea of where the time goes. Anyway, to celebrate this milestone, Barret will be releasing a whopper of an update on the game’s anniversary next Thursday, and it actually includes a bunch of stuff that he originally intended to include in the game but had to cut due to time and resource constraints. Thankfully Immortal Rogue has done pretty well in the past year and this has allowed him to go back and finally include these features. Here is a rundown of what’s new from the game’s official website.
If you’re somehow unfamiliar with Immortal Rogue, it is a hack’n slash style action game where you play as an immortal vampire who wakes up every 100 years to feed. There are two especially unique things about the game. First is that it has an open-ended narrative so that you can shape the outcome of how the world is each time you wake based on who you choose to kill, choose to save, or choose to turn into a vampire. It’s a really neat narrative structure that plays extremely well with the multiple playthrough style of roguelikes. The second unique thing in Immortal Rogue is its gesture-based control scheme. Oh, these controls! They make the game so mu...