The Rogue Prince of Persia, a recreation that’s pleasingly candid in selecting its identify for a roguelite Prince of Persia spin-off, has been delayed. It seems that builders Evil Empire – they of excellent roguelite platformer Lifeless Cells – noticed the Hades 2 prepare steaming down the tracks, and determined to sensibly dodge-roll out of its approach.
The Rogue Prince of Persia solely surfaced for realsies a few month in the past, following rumours not lengthy earlier than that the present Lifeless Cells custodians have been engaged on a standalone 2D entry within the long-running platformer sequence, having lastly introduced an finish to Lifeless Cells’ growth after many, many (35!) post-launch updates.
Price noting right here that The Rogue Prince of Persia is a separate recreation to The Misplaced Crown, a distinct official spin-off of Prince of Persia that additionally occurred to take the type of a traditional 2D platformer reminiscent of the sequence’ roots – albeit extra within the metroidvania vein than the roguelite one. It was fairly bloody good, and solely got here out in January – that means we is perhaps in for a bumper crop of fine Prince of Persia video games after an extended drought.
If you happen to haven’t but completed The Misplaced Crown, there’ll be a while to offer it a whizz earlier than The Rogue Prince of Persia (which, the extra I kind it, the clunkier it feels as a title) arrives. Evil Empire have delayed its early entry launch date from its deliberate arrival subsequent week on Might 14th, citing – what else – the early entry launch of Hades 2 earlier this week as a purpose to carry their horses.
“Seeing as everybody and their mum is enjoying that recreation (together with our complete workforce… and their mums), now we have determined to let folks have their enjoyable with it earlier than we launch The Rogue Prince of Persia,” the devs wrote.
“Whereas now we have full confidence in The Rogue Prince of Persia, it’s not daily {that a} recreation in the identical style as you, which is among the most anticipated upcoming video games of 2024, will launch into Early Entry per week earlier than you propose to do the identical. We aren’t prideful sufficient to disregard the implications of that, and we really imagine that this quick delay is the most effective choice for us and our Early Entry journey.”
It’s arduous to argue with that, actually – Hades 2’s unimaginable recognition and similarities to TRPoP as a roguelite apart, this week can also be chocka with the likes of Crow Nation, 1000xResist and Animal Nicely as acclaimed indie choices, so some respiratory room on the a part of gamers and builders alike appears prudent.
Evil Empire say they’ll announce the brand new launch date on Monday, but it surely’ll nonetheless hit Steam earlier than the top of Might. The additional time can be spent giving TRPoP much more polish, squashing some bugs and including “much more cool issues”, on prime of some bits as a consequence of arrive in an already “fairly hefty” Day 1 patch.
Alice discovered her time with The Rogue Prince of Persia final month to be a lot demanding in that approach of early run-based video games, with numerous wall-running, preventing and color – you’ve bought some extra time to hone these roguelite reflexes in Hades 2 earlier than then, at the least.
