Rotwood on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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The world has been thrown into chaos, and it's up to you and your friends to battle the corrupted beasts of the Rotwood. Upgrade your gear, choose your preferred weapon, and hone your skills to defend your safe haven.
Rotwood is a early access, hack and slash and dungeon crawler game
developed and published by Klei Entertainment.
Released on April 24th 2024 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 7,454 reviews of which 5,624 were positive and 1,830 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 15.60€ on Steam with a 20% discount.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Dual Core 3.0 GHz
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2GB VRAM / DirectX 11+ support
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 6 GB available space
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People are complaining of price increase. I find this absurd. Klei is doing what I've heard of most Early Access games. Please, do not review bomb a good game, because price is increased. I do not know how game development economy works. Game is an entertainment to me and Klei is very good at their job. But, this I can tell. Most early access games have their price increased as they continue to develop. They add more contents, more mechanics and more everything. So, the price is also increased for the more everything. This is logical. This is not something to review bomb a game. Furthermore, Klei regularly communicate with their fans. I'm sure they've told you at some point that the price is going to be increased and what the new price will be. You should have bought the game then. I bought it when it still costed 5 USD. Now, it's 8 USD. When it was 5 USD, people complained about grinding. Now, I do not see people complaining about grinding. They are simply review bombing because, with improved gameplay mechanics, came improved pricing. I can't help. but laugh at people's absurdity. This is an Early Access game. So, even the price is "Early Access". If you want a cheaper game, wait for full development of the game. Once the game has sold enough copies and is old enough, you can expect a reduction in price, at least, here on Steam. Steam sells games for cheap compared to other platforms.
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Updating my review since the game has changed pretty tremendously since launch. TL;DR: I'd currently give this game a 4/5 with potential to be a 4.5 or higher by 1.0. Due to mediocre rogue elements, Rotwood to me feels a little more like a beat'em-up than a true rogue-lite, where combat is the star of the show and the upgrades takes a firm back seat. Thankfully the combat is fun, the co-op is good, and there are lots of enemies to fight with more to come. For $11 Rotwood is a steal. Expanding a bit on the rogue elements, they aren't quite up to the level of other great rogues.There is a good variety of upgrades that you pick up during a run like most rogue-lites/likes, but they're mostly just flat bonuses with no synergy or effect on gameplay. The few upgrade synergies I have found are impossible to miss so there's barely any learning to be done on that front. Overall, upgrade selection is maybe 10% of success and the remaining 90% is having appropriate gear and fighting well, which ultimately limits replayability. There's still 20-30+ hours of fun gameplay here I'd estimate between the 6 current stages, each with 4 additional difficulty levels (and it looks like there are 1-2 more stages left to come plus extra difficulty modifiers) and 5 weapons to master. For completionists, there's lots of armor and weapons to unlock and upgrade that will likely bump that number to 50-75+ hours. But this isn't like Slay the Spire with almost infinite replayability. Not a dealbreaker for me, but worth mentioning. Lastly, the upgrading system and weapon unlocks used be very slow and clunky which you'll see in many reviews, but those systems have been substantially improved in several patches over the last few months such that I would now consider it mostly a non-issue. Used to be that the difficulty spikes in the game were way too high and as a result you'd be chronically grinding for materials to upgrade your gear to match the steep difficulty curve. All equipment also had upgrade limits that made early game equipment fall off very hard. Now the upgrading materials drop more generously so you can keep pace with the difficulty better, and all gear can be upgraded to a similar defense limit. It might still be slow for some people's tastes, but I think it's reasonable.
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I bought this to play couch co-op with my middle school son. I didn't expect much out of it. It's really opened my eyes to how much initial expectations can influence how you feel about games in the end. This game isn't AAA or amazing in general, but it's pretty good. It's $10 and it's certainly worth as much as 2 Big Macs. I don't regret buying it. Something I can't say about 75% of AAA games over the past 5 years.
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already beat the game, it's a polished Beat 'em up game, underline the polished part, as usual per KLEI quality release!! Although it's a bit on the shorter side, there's currently only 4 main area, but it's an early access game, if anything i learn from DST/NOI, i believe they will add more content later on, and even expand on it. The endgame is beating the current 4 area in a harder difficulty (called frenzy level) and as usual per rogue lite, you either need to git gud, or grind enough gear to make the game easier. The current hardest difficulty, frenzy 3 is quite a difficulty spike tho, i expect it's to make player play more and grind more.. if you're having a hard time, made a guide for easy farming here (shameless plug lol) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3234780425 but in the end is it a FUN game? the answer is YES plus the coop works well too! if you have a friend that's in the same region, since its using P2P connection. and that is assuming you have a friend.. --that owns the game i mean, uhuh, yep, lol
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Tencent purchased a majority stake in Klei Entertainment in Jan 2021. You must enable submission of your personally collected data to play any online features. The game has a great aesthetic, sound design, and flow to the interactions. I would have liked a tighter interaction feeling with enemies. Edit: Please see the relevant privacy policy as linked in the game for details on what data is shared. https://www.klei.com/privacy-policy ; The gist is standard usage data, anything you submit to their forums or company i.e. help desk support, and any linked social media with their services and third party partners (which is quite broad, vague, and least transparent of any data collected). A specific heading is included in the concise privacy policy, "International Data Transfers; Our service is global by nature and your data therefore can be transferred anywhere in the world. Because different countries have different data protection laws ...". My subjective take is data collection and sharing to this degree serves little benefit to the end user who offers up the data, especially in a product that was paid for. I suspect that if the developer was never owned by a larger corporation that it would likely not have similar data collection. Games are a business and some may not be developed without the financial support arrangements like that facilitate, but talking about the bad taste it leaves in one's mouth is justified.
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441
Developer
Klei Entertainment
Publisher
Klei Entertainment
Release
24 Apr 2024
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