When you yearn for the joys of seafaring adventures and the facility to summon legendary beasts just like the Kraken, Rogue Waters is your ticket to pirate paradise. As its identify suggests, Rogue Waters is a roguelike, however one with a heavier emphasis on story than a number of others within the style. You’re taking management of Cutter, a pirate aiming to be captain at some point and who repeatedly results in ship-to-ship battles, boarding them and moving into some good old school swashbuckling.
Going down in a turn-based format, your purpose is to both disarm enemy cannons geared toward you or try to take out among the crew to make the following half simpler. As soon as the battle half is over, you board the enemy ship and find yourself in tactical fight to take over the ship. Using quite a lot of ways to outsmart and overcome your foes, you may make use of intelligent manoeuvres, equivalent to trapping enemies between your items or utilizing ropes to reposition them strategically, whereas additionally using firearms for ranged assaults.
It’s a number of enjoyable, and battles solely get extra complicated the additional into every run you get, as a result of as with every roguelike price its (sea) salt, issues change. Throughout every run, you may nab issues like new weapons, new items, and even the prospect to summon the Kraken at factors to smash into large teams of enemies.
Phrase of warning – there’s a good quantity of studying to be completed in Rogue Waters, however it’s for good cause as you’re meant to really feel like an necessary piece within the story – you’re a Captain in any case – not only a random bystander. Which means you’ll must navigate conversations along with your crew, different pirates, and different unusual entities as piece collectively the story surrounding the secrets and techniques.
The roguelike style is an more and more crowded one, so it’s much more necessary for video games to do issues somewhat in a different way to face out – and that’s actually the case right here. In Rogue Waters, the gameplay will preserve you coming again for extra however it’s the story, and the writing, that’ll make you need to see it via to the top.