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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