Rogue

Guide

Eight tips for starting Pokémon Legends: Z-A

How to make the most of your first few hours in Lumiose City

A player is typing a sequence of words about waking up on a sunny day in Final Sentence, a new typing-focused battle royale. An armed guard stands over

Editorial

I've finally found a battle royale for the humble writer

Type for your life

Screenshots from Motorslice, Cairn, and Hellmart

Editorial

13 more of our favorite demos from Steam Next Fest

A castle rolls down a road in Monsters Are Coming! Rock & Road

Steam Next Fest highlight: Monsters Are Coming! Rock & Road

This big, stupid toddler town has no wheels, and yet it rocks and rolls on its own

An elevator heads down into Ballbylon in Ball x Pit

Kenny Sun on Ball x Pit's inspiration, iteration, and what Devolver helped add

How one of the best roguelites of the year came to be

A glitching desktop from Desktop Explorer

Steam Next Fest highlight: Desktop Explorer

Two-factor horror

A steer from Pathologic 3, a masked nun with a warhammer from Tormented Souls 2, and the anguished low poly face of a bearded man from Father, in a piece together for the Steam Next Fest.

Rounding up some of Steam Next Fest's most intriguing horror demos

Some our favorite Next Fest demos for spooky season

Upcoming Releases

Ball x Pit

PC Switch PS5 Xbox X/S

Release date: Oct. 15, 2025 Developer: Kenny Sun Publisher: Devolver Digital Genre: Breakout roguelite

A mega evolution of Dragonite in Pokemon Z-A

Pokémon Legends: Z-A

Switch2 Switch

Release date: Oct. 16 2025 Developer: Game Freak Publisher: The Pokemon Company, Nintendo Genre: RPG

Jurassic World Evolution 3

PC Xbox X/S PS5

Release date: Oct. 21, 2025 Developer: Frontier Developments Publisher: Frontier Developments Genre: Theme Park Simulator

Ninja Gaiden 4

Xbox X/S PC PS5

Release date: Oct. 21, 2025 Developer: Team Ninja/PlatinumGames Publisher: Xbox Game Studios Genre: Action

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2

PC PS5 Xbox X/S

Release date: Oct. 21, 2025 Developer: The Chinese Room Publisher: Paradox Interactive Genre: RPG

Ball x Pit

PC Switch PS5 Xbox X/S

Release date: Oct. 15, 2025 Developer: Kenny Sun Publisher: Devolver Digital Genre: Breakout roguelite

Pokémon Legends: Z-A

Switch2 Switch

Release date: Oct. 16 2025 Developer: Game Freak Publisher: The Pokemon Company, Nintendo Genre: RPG

Jurassic World Evolution 3

PC Xbox X/S PS5

Release date: Oct. 21, 2025 Developer: Frontier Developments Publisher: Frontier Developments Genre: Theme Park Simulator

Ninja Gaiden 4

Xbox X/S PC PS5

Release date: Oct. 21, 2025 Developer: Team Ninja/PlatinumGames Publisher: Xbox Game Studios Genre: Action

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2

PC PS5 Xbox X/S

Release date: Oct. 21, 2025 Developer: The Chinese Room Publisher: Paradox Interactive Genre: RPG

Podcasts

Rogue Signal ep. 6: The arrival of Canadian Thanksgiving (featuring Matt Leone)

The one where we talk about Ghost of Yotei, CloverPit, and more

An image from the Patlabor anime, with a ghostly silhouette of a lady on the left and a group of people under a tent on a nice summer day.

Pat's Labor Episode 04: The Tragedy of L

A simple ghost story… or is it?

Our Latest

News

A photoshop of the OpenAI and AMD logos along with a bag of money

OpenAI and AMD partner in 6 gigawatt deal

Key art for Outer Worlds 2, Hollow Knight Silksong, Grounded 2, and Call of Duty Black Ops 7

Microsoft increases price of Game Pass Ultimate by 50%

Dark blue shapes against a blue background

EA to be acquired by private equity firms in $50b deal

Wolverine stares into the camera in his classic costume

Fuck yeah, Wolverine

Space cats are invading Steam with Twilight Imperium Digital

Key art for the 1.0 release of Hades 2 featuring a closeup of Melinoe's eyes

The epic wait for the 1.0 launch of Hades 2 ends on Sep. 25

The protagonist of Look Outside, a tired looking man, stands in the hallway of his apartment building next to an enormous orange beast comprised of hands and limbs.

Look Outside's creator keeps cramming the horror gem full of new content

A dark forest scene is illuminated by an ominous red eye light in the middle of a makeshift structure in a promotional image for Whispers in the Woods, a new Pacific Drive expansion.

Pacific Drive dev announce upcoming expansion Whispers in the Woods

A character in Mewgenics talks using a speech bubble

007 First Light and Mewgenics are the perfect trailer double feature

Want an RSS feed for Rogue.site? We can help with that!

The Toxic Avenger versus medical debt

Helldivers 2 goes underground with new Terminid hive worlds

Welcome to Rogue

Editorials

I've finally found a battle royale for the humble writer

Steam Next Fest highlight: Monsters Are Coming! Rock & Road

Kenny Sun on Ball x Pit's inspiration, iteration, and what Devolver helped add

13 more of our favorite demos from Steam Next Fest

Steam Next Fest highlight: Desktop Explorer

Rounding up some of Steam Next Fest's most intriguing horror demos

A sci-fi environment left abandoned, with books and personal materials scattered on the floor. The scene is lit by a circular window through which we can see a pink sky and strange land masse

Ambrosia's Sky's demo is a little bit like being Samus with a spray gun

The main character of Ball x Pit shooting balls at skeletons

Ball x Pit is an exceptional, bottomless roguelite rabbit hole

Why doesn’t anyone know Guybrush Threepwood’s birthday?

A bulbus knight rams into demons in Korridor

Steam NextFest highlight: Korridor is a mobile game ad made manifest in the best way possible

Illustration: Takeshi Oga for Design Room

A sample of the Oral History of Shadow of the Colossus

New Helldivers training manuals arriving this Liberty Day

Absolum is a beautiful, slow-progressing, arcade-ass Roguelite

Carimara is the perfect Halloween appetizer

Liadrin, a red-headed elf woman with long eyebrows, long ears, and ornate armor, kneels in front of the holy Sunwell in the opening cinematic for World of Warcraft: Midnight.

Blizzard hopes Midnight's alpha leads to a better World of Warcraft

Guides

Eight tips for starting Pokémon Legends: Z-A

Ascii text reading: Absolum A Rogue Guide

Get ready for Absolum

Let's go to Ezo in Ghost of Yotei: Tips for your first few hours

All Reagents in Hades 2 and where to find them

Melinoë battles on a boat on the surface in Hades 2

How to remove Melinoë's surface curse in Hades 2

Hades 2's Melinoë fighting a Guardian in Erebus

How to get Bronze in Hades 2

How to get Shadow in Hades 2

Tips for making the most out of your first few Hades 2 runs

How to get to Act 3 in Hollow Knight: Silksong

Hornet facing the roaring Bell Beast in Hollow Knight: Silksong

How to defeat the Bell Beast in Hollow Knight: Silksong

The main art for Borderlands 4 in an ASCII format

Here's what you need to know about the first few hours of Borderlands 4

A group of four Vault Hunters battle against enemies in Borderlands 4

So ... which Vault Hunter is right for you in Borderlands 4?