Rogue Legacy to carry its lineage onto Xbox One May 27

Masochistic Xbox gamers who want their families to suffer as much as they do won’t have to wait much longer to make it happen. Cellar Door Games’ Rogue Legacy will arrive on Xbox One on May 27, Cellar Door Co-Founder Teddy Lee has announced.

Lee wrote that his team worked in conjunction with Abstraction Games on the port to ensure that the Xbox version “was as faithful to the original as possible.” Rogue Legacy first released on PC in 2013 before arriving on PlayStation platforms last year.

The game, which Cellar Door refers to as a “rogue-lite,” challenges players to explore a randomly generated dungeon guarded by four area bosses and one final boss. It sounds easy enough, but Rogue Legacy is anything but. As Lee himself says, players “will die over and over.” Death is permanent for each player-character, but his next of kin will inherit the fallen parent’s gold to use for upgrades before bravely charging back into the dungeon in an attempt to move incrementally closer to the endgame.

Rogue Legacy was critically hailed upon its initial release and currently enjoys an 85/100 rating on Metacritic.com.

Source: Microsoft