History VideoGame / StreetsOfRogue

* ImprovisedWeapon: The Wrestler can pick up almost any object lying around the level (trash cans, lamps, boulders, vending machines...) to throw them at any hostiles for a fair amount of damage.

* JackOfAllStats: The slum dweller class. One of his traits is even called [[LampshadeHanging "Potential To Not Suck"]].

Unlike many similar games, Streets of Rogue at least nominally averts EverythingIsTryingToKillYou; as wretched as the city is, people won't usually attack you on sight, barring the occasional riot, cannibal attack, bombing or killer robot. But the player is given several missions they have to complete on each level, and these tend to involve killing, stealing, trespassing into places you aren't supposed to be, and generally doing things that make people start shooting at you.

The game's homepage can be found [[http://streetsofrogue.com/ here]], and it can also be found [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/512900/Streets_of_Rogue/ on Steam]]. The game is currently in early access, and constantly being updated with new content, however it is still in ''alpha'' so the game is a bit bare bones at this time, however the core gameplay is there and works fine, so unlike most alphas the game is very stable and reliable so far, and still has a surprising amount of depth and variety to it with what's already there.

* BoringButPractical: The Assassin, Doctor, and Vampire all require somebody to have their back turned to use their specials to their fullest, and the game seems aware of this and stations many domestic, or simply there to punish somebody for causing trouble instead of actively gunning for the player inside of their territory, goons/guards with their back firmly against a wall to prevent using these abilities for a free knockout. In multiplayer you can just have a player talk to them, or for goons attacking a wall, to the side to make them turn and expose their back to the interested party.

** The Thief-types focus on sneaking up behind people and have items or abilities focused on movement and stealth, like the Assassin or Thief.
** The Mage-types tend to have the Skinning Nerdlinger flaw and have items or abilities that give them weird capabilities, like the Hacker or Scientist.

** The Fighter-types tend to be beefy classes focused on melee and are often unable to use the computer, like the Gorilla, Wrestler, Jock, or Werewolf.

* FighterMageThief: There seems to be this dynamic with the jock, who relies extensively on brute strength, Hacker, who has low stats but his ability to hack could be considered "magic" based on what you can do with it, and the actual thief, who's fast and can actively steal from enemies. However there are plenty of usable combinations of characters that can result in this, except the hacker is currently the only character with any real unique flavor of "magic" but others can fill the role.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The mayor, who got elected on a platform of lower taxes and more beer, proceeded to raise them dramatically, ban chicken tenders, and confiscate all the alcohol, purely to hold a giant party... and the party [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking wasn't even that great]]. Of course, this is The Resistance's account of events, and [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized they're not entirely trustworthy]].

* BoringButPractical: The Assassin, Doctor, cop, and Vampire all require somebody to have their back turned to use their specials to their fullest, and the game seems aware of this and stations many domestic, or simply there to punish somebody for causing trouble instead of actively gunning for the player inside of their territory, goons/guards with their back firmly against a wall to prevent using these abilities for a free knockout. In multiplayer you can just have a player talk to them, or for goons attacking a wall, to the side to make them turn and expose their back to the interested party.

The game's homepage can be found [[http://streetsofrogue.com/ here]], and it can also be found [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/512900/Streets_of_Rogue/ on Steam]]. The game is currently in early access, with new levels, items, and classes constantly being added.

* MechanicallyUnusualClass: While each class has its own unique quirks, The Changling is still the outlier out of all of them. They are very weak and tiny, however their ability allows them to possess any NPC on that floor, which gives you their inventory and their alliances when you do so, which means if you take over a "building owner", or a character with a yellow name, all others who share that building will suddenly be allies, however they can still turn on you if they see you doing something suspicious, like robbing "your" building.
* NoOshaCompliance: None of the buildings with security systems are particularly safe, and for some reason every server in the game has a function to flood its building with poison gas in the hands of a good enough hacker, but the Industrial section of the game stands out in particular - it's filled with conveyor belts leading into flames and pits, crushers, puddles of easily-flammable oil, no guard rails, explosive poisonous barrels, and so on.
* NoticeThis: The use of light is a major theme to help the player see what's important. intractable items are always lit up naturally, each unique building has its own lighting to let the player know what counts as a building, characters emit light on their own to help highlight what's a person and what isn't, and a specific mission type will show its cleared by removing the lights from the building it was in.

* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: for some odd reason, you can place anything that's considered a "drug" into an air purifier, and it will suddenly leak as gas throughout the building it was attached to. This can include cocaine, steroid pills, and cigarettes.

* NoticeThis: the use of light is a major theme to help the player see what's important. intractable items are always lit up naturally, each unique building has its own lighting to let the player know what counts as a building, characters emit light on their own to help highlight what's a person and what isn't, and a specific mission type will show its cleared by removing the lights from the building it was in.

* PaletteSwap: the Blhads and crepes are two separate unlockable classes, but they are both the exact same as each other aside from a mutual hatred for the other gang which does have gameplay effects, any member of the rival gang will attack you without hesitation, but even those are the exact same for both of them.

* WelcomeToCorneria: talking to any character that doesn't have an assigned function in the home base, such as unlocking new skills and items, will earn the same message over and over, and if they are class that can randomly be found in game, they'll say their line from the actual maps, such as the police officer asking you to do crime where they can see it.

Unlike many similar games, Streets of Rogue at least nominally averts EverythingIsTryingToKillYou; the city, as wretched as the city is, people won't usually attack you on sight, barring the occasional riot or bombing or killer robot. But the player is given several missions they have to complete on each level, and these tend to involve killing, stealing, trespassing into places you aren't supposed to be, and generally doing things that make people start shooting at you.

* BoringButPractical: the doctor and hacker are both very niche classes, the doctor more so, but both are very useful. The doctor cannot use any damage dealing weapon and can only fight by punching, but their ability is an instant knockout if they can get behind their victim that can be used in public and only alerts direct allies who notice corpses, such as slave traders and security goons to their employers, which can lead to him gleefully taking out all unguarded shop owners and robbing them, as well as being better stealth experts than the assassin at times. The hacker has infinite remote hacks, and while he sucks at combat, you can do some interesting things with hacking that can help avoid combat or outright bypass dungeons.
** The Assassin, Doctor, cop, and Vampire all require somebody to have their back turned to use their specials to their fullest, and the game seems aware of this and stations many domestic, or simply there to punish somebody for causing trouble instead of actively gunning for the player inside of their territory, goons/guards with their back firmly against a wall to prevent using these abilities for a free knockout. In multiplayer you can just have a player talk to them, or for goons attacking a wall, to the side to make them turn and expose their back to the interested party.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The mayor, who got elected on a platform of lower taxes and more bear, proceeded to raise them dramatically, ban chicken tenders, and confiscate all the alcohol, purely to hold a giant party... and the party [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking wasn't even that great]]. Of course, this is The Resistance's account of events, and [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized they're not entirely trustworthy]].

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The mayor, who got elected on a platform of lowering taxes, proceeded to raise them dramatically, ban chicken tenders, and confiscate all the alcohol, purely to hold a giant party... and the party [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking wasn't even that great]]. Of course, this is The Resistance's account of events, and [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized they're not entirely trustworthy]].

** The Assassin, Doctor, cop, and Vampire all require somebody to have their back turned to use their specials to their fullest, and the game seems aware of this and stations many domestic, or simply there to punish somebody for causing trouble instead of actively gunning for the player inside of their territory, goons/guards with their back firmly against a wall to prevent using these abilities for a free knockout. In multiplayer you can just have a player talk to them to the side to make them turn and expose their back to the interested party.

* NoticeThis: the use of light is a major theme to help the player see what's important. intractable items are always lit up naturally, each unique building has its own lighting to let the player know who it belongs to, characters emit light on their own to help highlight what's a person and what isn't, and a specific mission type will show its cleared by removing the lights from the building it was in.

** The Assassin, Doctor, and Vampire all require somebody to have their back turned to use their specials to their fullest, and the game seems aware of this and stations many domestic, or simply there to punish somebody for causing trouble instead of actively gunning for the player inside of their territory, goons/guards with their back firmly against a wall to prevent using these abilities for a free knockout. In multiplayer you can just have a player talk to them to the side to make them turn and expose their back to the interested party.

* BoringButPractical: the doctor and hacker are both very niche classes, the doctor more so, but both are very useful. The doctor cannot use any damage dealing weapon and can only fight by punching, but their ability is an instant knockout that can be used in public and only alerts direct allies who notice corpses, such as slave traders and security goons to their employers, which can lead to him gleefully taking out all unguarded shop owners and robbing them, as well as being better stealth experts than the assassin at times. The hacker has infinite remote hacks, and while he sucks at combat, you can do some interesting things with hacking that can help avoid combat or outright bypass dungeons.