Electric Rogue

Electric Rogue is a minimal first-person roguelike with 2.5D graphics and an abstract cyberpunk theme. There are 10 levels, that can be completed in half an hour. The user interface is made for touchscreen devices, and scales to any screen size, though it's best viewed in 854x480 or so.

How to play

On each level, retrieve the three keycards and bump into the corresponding terminals to activate them. When you're done, return to the transfer pad to continue. Don't waste moves! Once you're out of cycles, your noise starts growing. You can only tolerate up to 100 times the level you're on.

On each level you're going to run into viruses that have infected the system. Bump into them to fight; they're extra vulnerable when their lights are off. Overall, avoid them if you can. A useful tactical move is pressing the [X] button (or the spacebar) to wait a turn.

Last but not least, every time you pick up a keycard, for the next 15 moves or so you can chase down and kill viruses with impunity. But don't go out of your way to do it unless you can spare the CPU cycles!

Keys

If you have a keyboard, the following work:

• WASD or the arrow keys for movement;
• Enter for the [O] (circle) button;
• Space for the [X] (cross) button.
• Escape for the menu button.

At the title screen, press left/right or up/down to toggle the credits. During the game, the circle button toggles a statistics pane.

Credits

Font: Effects Eighty, by Peter Hull, available under the Open Font License.

Music by TheWzzard, via Open Game Art.

Sound effects by Little Robot Sound Factory.