1. 📅 Streets of Rogue 2 is moving from its original release date of August 14th to a new release date of October 22nd.
   
2. 🎮 We’ll be conducting an Open Playtest on Steam in the near future, free for anyone to join!

But wait, a new release date? What’s going on here? What sort of shenanigans are at play? Well, I assure you the answer is a lot less interesting than that. I, uh… couldn’t program quite fast enough. :p

While SoR 2 has had a few more folks working on it than its predecessor, I’m still the sole programmer/designer of this thing. Compared with other disciplines, programmers are notoriously bad at predicting how long a given task will take. Now replace “task” with “entire Early Access-ready game,” and as you can probably imagine, guesstimating correctly gets a tad trickier. I’d been targeting a summer launch for a while, which has led to a pretty intense 2024. And while the original release date would have been technically achievable, it would have also been tighter than I was comfortable with. The new date allows me some breathing room and the opportunity to make the game that much better.

The new release date will also give me time to conduct a large-scale Pre-Release Playtest. If Streets of Rogue’s history tells me anything, this should benefit development. Before the original SoR went into Early Access, I released a bunch of builds of the game for free. This was super useful for getting player feedback and paved the way for a smooth launch on Steam.

The ETA for the future Playtest is late August / early September. Stay tuned for more news on that!


The prospect of releasing a pre-Early Access version of SoR 2 has often crossed my mind. But while SoR 1’s simple level-based structure lent itself well to creating nice little vertical slices of gameplay to iterate on, SoR 2’s long-gestating open world and numerous broader-scale systems have taken longer to gel. Even then, there’s still a LOT of malleability in a lot of areas of the game, which is why I’d like to hear your opinions!


Thanks for your patience, everyone! Looking forward to getting the game into your hands!

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Today marks the 5th Anniversary of the release of Streets of Rogue! Thank you for being with us all this time, people! Time really flies. The game entered Early Access on Steam back in 2017. And look where we are now! It's already been five years since this game's full release in 2019. So many memories were made, and so many are still to come, with the sequel on the horizon.

Unfortunately, due to the Mayor's budget cuts, there will not be cake for the anniversary event. Instead, to reminisce on the times, we decided to host a lil' anniversary event!

• From July 12th to July 26th, share your gameplay video clips from Streets of Rogue with us. All kinds of memorable moments are welcome: funny or ridiculously absurd situations, a near-death experience of avoiding the game over screen with 1 HP, you name it. Feel free to include voice-over, subtitles (preferred language: English), overlays, or memes; however, the video you submit must be based on gameplay footage.
  
• Your video submission must be from 10 seconds to 1 minute long.
  
• Multiple submissions from one person are allowed. Both older and newly-recorded clips are eligible.
  
• You can upload video clips to file hosting services like Dropbox or Google Drive and share the link in the comments. You can also upload a video to YouTube (Public or Unlisted—as you prefer.) Alternatively, join our Discord server[discord.gg] and share your submission in the "5-year-anniversary" channel. Members of our server are currently voting for the best clips; the 10 best videos with the most votes will be featured on our Twitter (X) profile.
  
• The contest concludes on July 26 at 7:00 PM CET / 1 pm ET / 10 am PT.

We look forward to checking out your clips, rogues.



Furthermore, to celebrate the 5th Anniversary, we'll be hosting a Streets of Rogue Speedrunning Tournament starting July 19th! Compete with others in a server-wide tournament to get the best time. Sign-ups and more information will follow next week.

On behalf of Matt and tinyBuild, Happy Anniversary again, and thanks for being awesome!

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Check out our new gameplay trailer featuring a killer track by Perturbator:

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Streets of Rogue 2 news. We've just shown a new Gameplay Trailer at Triple-I Initiative[iii-initiative.com]. It features fresh gameplay, showcases the sequel's freedom of choice, and teases crazy mechanics like... rat summoning?

Also, here are some new screenshots:

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We've got an update for you in the form of a devlog entry from Matt. With this one, he wanted to go technical, so expect an in-depth look at the procedural generation system of the sequel. We at tinyBuild and Matt had lots of fun putting this video together for you; I hope you'll enjoy it. Check it out:

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The Christmas Fan Art Contest ended last week, and we spent a couple of days selecting the winners. It was hard, not going to lie—we were amazed at how awesome every single submission was! Community managers, moderators, and Matt voted for their favorite pieces of art, and that's what we came up with:


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We've contacted the winners to present rewards to them. The rewards include Steam copies of Streets of Rogue 2 once it comes out in Early Access, digital postcards, a digital copy of a game published by tinyBuild of their choice, and a personal Congrats Video for the winners from Matt. Watch it here:


Thanks so much to everybody who participated in the contest. See you all soon, rogues! Keep your eyes peeled for more Streets of Rogue 2 devlogs from Matt.

Link to DEVLOG №1: Open World, Inspirations, First Playtests

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We've got a lot of exciting stuff for y'all before Christmas. It's not the release date of Streets of Rogue 2 or news that Matt's running for mayor—we're leaving that for next year. Meanwhile, other cool stuff is coming your way. Let's see what we have in store for you.



It's been a while since we did a contest (actually, this summer), so we figured we'd have some fun with the community with a little fan art competition.


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1. 📅 Dates: Dec 21st - Jan 4th
   
2. 🏆 Prizes: Streets of Rogue 2 for Steam, a video greeting from Matt, and more
   
3. ❄️ Fan Art must have a Winter Holiday theme

More information in the #xmas-fanart-contest channel on our Discord server[discord.gg].

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Matt's answering questions right now on one of the biggest gaming subreddits r/Games. Ask him anything! Or just come say "hi."

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The Steam Winter Sale has started, and it's a perfect chance to pick up a copy of the first game at a discount. If you already own it, feel free to gift it to a friend and enjoy not reading emails together in co-op:

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Merry Christmas, rogues! See you in 2024.


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Matt here. While working on the sequel to Streets of Rogue, I realized that I've got a lot of interesting stuff to share with you all. So I decided to start a series of devlogs, and the first entry is already here. Check it out:

As always, thank you for your support! Wishlist Streets of Rogue 2, it helps me out big time:

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