The Rogue Prince of Persia launched into early access in May 2024 and, by all reports, was pretty good even in its . As the name suggests, it wraps [[link]] the Prince's balletic action in a roguelite cloth, with plenty of bloodletting combat and illogical platforming gauntlets to tackle. It looks brilliant in movement: the character animations look like hi-octane interpretations of the old PC classic, with backflips and cartwheels thrown in.
I can't emphasise enough how gorgeous this game is in action: If Dead Cells had an eastern-influenced art style with a coat of Supergiant polish, that's close to what we have here. I kinda wish the recent Prince of Persia metroidvania looked more like this and less like a generic modern 3D game, but whatever: it makes me excited to see what Evil Empire has cooking next.
The Rogue Prince of Persia isn't shaping up to be one of those games that get updated forever. "The Rogue Prince of Persia is now considered complete, we will be releasing some patches to cover bugs and what not, but this is the full game," Evil Empire writes on Steam. "Of course, if the game gets popular we'll never say never to adding more…"
The Rogue Prince of Persia has hardly made a dent compared to similar games like Dead Cells or Hades 2 (it's so far peaked at 428 concurrent Steam players), though that may change now that's in 1.0 and on consoles. .
The studio—which previously worked on all of Dead Cells' paid post-launch DLC—also said to keep an eye on its social media channels for announcements "in the not-so-far future."