Averted with the police bots in Uptown, who will either confiscate your drugs and alcohol or deport you if you're not a citizen, and only become violent if you attack first. All Crimes Are Equal: Commit a crime in front of a cop and the penalty is death, regardless of whether you've just murdered somebody or tried to hack into an ATM.You also have an item to detonate their Explosive Leash whenever you want. Action Bomb: When playing as the Slavemaster, you can send your slaves anywhere you want.Finding the solution to a problem that also results in victory is where the real difficulty of the game lies, as a single mistake can spell the end of your run or cost you more than you can make up for. The game encourages multiple solutions to every problem, and the game's many systems facilitate this: why blow open a wall to get inside a room, for example, when you can cut out the window, teleport into the room, or lure everyone outside and sneak in while they're oblivious? There are dozens of items to play around with and quite a few different character classes, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Upon loading up the level, the game generates a few missions for the player to complete: upon failure or success of all of these missions, the game allows the player to head to the next floor. While there is permadeath, the layout of the game is very unusual by the standards of traditional roguelikes. The game is billed as a cross between roguelikes and Immersive Sim games, such as Deus Ex. The player can use explosives, burn down buildings, flood air vents with poison gas, shoot up both banks and drug dens, and generally cause ridiculous amounts of chaos in an urban environment.
In practice, procedural mayhem and wanton death is more likely to ensure.
Streets of Rogue is a real-time Roguelike-ish PC game set in a Wretched Hive of a city filled with crooks and governed by a corrupt mayor the player, an agent of the The Resistance, is sent to climb the city and assassinate him.