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RogueScape playtest
by Ryæn
Pick your skills, survive 20-minute runs, open chests, and grow your account in an old-school MMO-inspired survival roguelike.
Anyone with a Steam account can join, and it's free.
- Access
- Instant
- On playtest since
- Jun 2, 2026
- Planned release
- To be announced
- Developer
- Ryæn
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English
How to join the RogueScape playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Join playtest button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Use the RogueScape playtest signup there. You're in straight away, with nothing to pay.
- The playtest shows up in your Steam library, ready to install and play.
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How AI is used
RogueScape may use generative AI tools as part of the development workflow, primarily to assist with programming, debugging, prototyping, workflow automation, and occasional asset or copy iteration. Any AI-assisted content used in the game, store page, or related marketing materials is reviewed, edited, and approved by the developer before publication.
The developer's own words, from Steam.
About RogueScape
RogueScape is an old-school MMO-inspired survival roguelike where every run starts with a build choice: pick your skills, survive escalating waves, open chests, and turn permanent account progress into stronger future runs.
Choose from combat, gathering, production, and support skills before each run. Swing swords with Attack, fire piercing arrows with Ranged, chain lightning through groups with Magic, orbit shields with Defense, smash enemies with Strength, or lean into survival tools like Woodcutting, Mining, Fishing, Cooking, Smithing, Herblore, Crafting, Agility, and Slayer. Your selected skills level up during the run, unlocking stronger effects and stranger synergies as the pressure builds.
Runs are built around survival, decision-making, and momentum. Enemies are fewer and tougher than a typical swarm game, so kills matter, positioning matters, and each upgrade can change how your build handles the next wave. Last long enough and the Reaper arrives to bring the run to its final reckoning.
Between runs, your account keeps growing. XP earned in a run feeds permanent skill progression, giving that familiar long-term grind a roguelike loop: lose, learn, level, rebuild, and come back stronger.
Features
- Build around MMO-style skills with combat, gathering, production, and support options.
- Survive 20-minute runs against escalating enemy waves and mini-boss pressure.
- Earn XP toward permanent account-wide skill progression.
- Open chests mid-run to gain skill levels and push your build further.
- Create powerful synergies between weapons, shields, magic, sustain, gathering buffs, crafted boosts, and defensive tools.
- Fight fewer, tougher enemies where movement, sustain, and upgrade choices matter.
- Explore a dark pixel-fantasy world with chunky old-school UI, skill icons, chests, achievements, and satisfying progression.
RogueScape is not affiliated with Jagex or RuneScape.
From the game's Steam page.
