History VideoGame / StreetsOfRogue

A sequel was confirmed to be coming "eventually", after starting life as a [[RefittedForSequel massive expansion that ballooned out of control]], and will feature dungeons, more tilesets, new obstacles and characters, a world map, vehicles and (relatively) sane driving AI as well as a world building tools to make your own maps. There are also notes that indicate this will be less "roguelite" and more "open world that takes advantage of roguelite elements from the first one." The current ETA for release is some time in 2024.

* DropTheHammer: The Sledgehammer is a rare melee weapon and the most powerful, being able to [[LudicrousGibs turn to hamburger]] most foes.

* EarnYourBadEnding: The bad ending (or at least the ending the game officially considers "bad") requires pushing the mayor's hat into a pit, none of which are anywhere near you acquire it - making this a convoluted process that almost by definition means you could have gotten a better ending far more easily by just picking it up and using it to win the game as intended.

* HollywoodHacking: The Hacker class naturally engages in this - with a few typing sounds on their laptop, they can make a building's security systems attack its owners, flood the vents with poison gas, unlock safes, and so on, all without even having to set foot in the building. Other characters can do similar things by using single-use "hacking devices" that work on almost any electronic device.

The game is billed as a cross between roguelikes and ImmersiveSim games, such as Videogame/DeusEx. While there is permadeath, the layout of the game is very unusual by the standards of traditional roguelikes. Upon loading up the level, the game generates a few missions for the player to complete: upon failure or success of all of these missions, the game allows the player to head to the next floor. The game encourages multiple solutions to every problem, and the game's many systems facilitate this: why blow open a wall to get inside a room, for example, when you can cut out the window, teleport into the room, or lure everyone outside and sneak in while they're oblivious? There are dozens of items to play around with and quite a few different character classes, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Finding the solution to a problem that also results in victory is where the real difficulty of the game lies, as a single mistake can spell the end of your run or cost you more than you can make up for.

** While you can't leave a level while you have active quests, *failing* them works just fine (you'll miss out on the rewards, but over the course of an entire run individual quest rewards are rarely important.) Additionally, the nature of the game means that most of the threats only occur as a result of you actively pursuing your goals, and even the remaining threats can generally be outrun. This means if all your quests are ones with easy failure conditions, you can just rapidly fail them intentionally, then dash to the exit, effectively skipping the level.

* EasyLevelTrick: The Killer Robot hazard is intended to be a classic case of "Run or die." It's packing a rocket launcher with nearly unlimited ammo,[[note]]it may appear to be unlimited, but it actually "only" holds 10,000 rounds[[/note]] takes nearly no knockback, and boasts a prodigious health pool of 1,000 by default, 1,400 with Extra Health For All mutator, and''3000,'' with full health for all. This easily exceedes any other NPC in the game; fighting it head-on is nearly suicidal. However, it is ''extremely'' slow, and it will always walk in a direct line towards the player unless something obstructs it. As such, all you need to do to kill it is [[AIBreaker lure it into a building with a flame trap on the wall]], and [[ArtificialStupidity watch as the metallic menace blindly and repeatedly walks directly into the stream of fire until it dies]]. Alternatively, if you have an Ammo Stealer on hand, a simple point and click will remove its ability to shoot rockets, causing it to default to a much weaker punch attack.

* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse, a possible reaction from [=NPCs=] to the Comedian's jokes. People who dislike your jokes will become permanently annoyed at you (they won't attack you, but you won't be able to interact with them. Annoyed property owners will also demand you leave).

* WeaponOfXSlaying: The Ghost Gibber is a rare energy weapon. It doesn't deal any damage to ordinary things and creatures, but it's insanely effective against supernatural beings like Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves, and of course Ghosts.

* ZombieInfectee: Any NPC that enters in contact with a Zombie will turn into a one upon death.

* BottomlessMagazines: The Killer Robot has a rocket launcher that never runs out of ammo, and the player can activate a mutation that gives all guns infinite ammo.

* EasyLevelTrick: The Killer Robot hazard is intended to be a classic case of "Run or die." It's packing a rocket launcher with nearly unlimited ammo,[[note]]it may appear to be unlimited, but it actually "only" holds 10,000 rounds[[/note]] takes nearly no knockback, and boasts a prodigious health pool of ''3000,'' easily exceeding any other NPC in the game; fighting it head-on is nearly suicidal. However, it is ''extremely'' slow, and it will always walk in a direct line towards the player unless something obstructs it. As such, all you need to do to kill it is [[AIBreaker lure it into a building with a flame trap on the wall]], and [[ArtificialStupidity watch as the metallic menace blindly and repeatedly walks directly into the stream of fire until it dies]].

A sequel was confirmed to be coming "eventually", after starting life as a [[RefittedForSequel massive expansion that ballooned out of control]], and will feature dungeons, more tilesets, new obstacles and characters, a world map, vehicles and (relatively) sane driving AI as well as a world building tools to make your own maps. There are also notes that indicate this will be less "roguelite" and more "open world that takes advantage of roguelite elements from the first one." The current ETA for release is some time in 2023.

A sequel was confirmed to be coming "eventually", after starting life as a [[RefittedForSequel massive expansion that ballooned out of control]], and will feature dungeons, more tilesets, new obstacles and characters, a world map, vehicles and (relatively) sane driving AI as well as a world building tools to make your own maps. The current ETA for release is some time in 2023.

* 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 (hence why there are so many people walking around, including officers with itchy trigger fingers). Despite this, said classes are easy to use and their abilities are expected to be frequently used.
** The Soldier, the Shopkeeper and both Gangsters lack any game-breaking quirks or abilities, have no significant downsides, and start with decent equipment and a firearm for dealing damage at a distance.

* GenderNeutralWriting: All class biographies use they/them instead of gendered pronouns; there is no gender option and the art style means that most characters have AmbiguousGender.

* BananaPeel: You can get it after eating a banana; people who step on it will trip and become stunned for a moment. Killing someone with this unlockes the Comedian class.

* AnAxeToGrind: A powerful melee weapon, and part of the Cannibal class starting loadout.

A sequel was confirmed to be coming "eventually", after starting life as a [[RefittedForSequel massive expansion that ballooned out of control]], and will feature dungeons, more tilesets, new obstacles and characters, a world map, vehicles and (relatively) sane driving AI as well as a world building tools to make your own maps. The current ETA for release is some time in 2022.

* NiceHat: The Mayor's Hat, a snazzy tophat.

* BottomlessMagazines: {{Averted}}. All types of firearms, including futuristic ones like {{Shrink Ray}}s, have limited ammo, though there are multiple ways of replenishing it. The game is also a rare case where enemies do ''not'' benefit from this trope; they'll run out of ammo just like the player does after enough shots.
** PlayedStraight by the Killer Robot enemy, though, whose rocket launcher never runs dry [[note]]technically averted as the Killer Robot's launcher is capped at 10000 rounds, but this is more than enough to destroy everything and kill everybody in the game[[/note]].
** This is also played straight if the Unlimited Ammo mutation is turned on at Home Base.

* NotCompletelyUseless: The cigarettes. Normally, they're VendorTrash, since they only inflict the "Nicotine" status effect (deals minor damage to whoever is affected) and you need a cigarette lighter to use them. For the Investment Banker, however, cigarettes are a cheap and plentiful way to satisfy their drug addiction mechanic.

* VendorTrash: Zig-zagged. Most classes avert this, as any item you find will have at least one use; however, certain classes will render entire categories of item as Vendor Trash. For instance, the Cannibal can [[{{IDoNotDrinkWine}} only eat a specific kind of meat,]] so other food is off limits; the Doctor is [[{{MartialPacifist}} a pacifist who won't touch any lethal weaponry]]; the Gorilla's hands are too big and stubby to make use of guns built for humans, and so on, and so forth.

No relation to ''Videogame/StreetsOfRage'', and the title is a mere ShoutOut as the genre are wildly different.

* {{Invisibility}}: The Assassin can make themselves completely invisible for a while by using Camouflage ability. You can deal 10x damage by [[BackStab attacking the enemy from behind]], and enemies will never notice you unless you touched them.