ROGUE SHIFT

Released: Feb 9, 2023
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 04 Sep 2026, 08:52 GMT

Updates & announcements

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16 Mar 2023Developer post
Release Notes - v1.0.11 [QoL + fixes]
Improvements When playing Final Stand or Escape solo, the enemy wave countdown will now pause while you are shopping. Updated the description of Story Mode to reflect recent changes. Fixes The tutorial message explaining level-up, now correctly shows the level-up bar and shortcut
Improvements

When playing Final Stand or Escape solo, the enemy wave countdown will now pause while you are shopping.
Updated the description of Story Mode to reflect recent changes.
Fixes

The tutorial message explaining level-up, now correctly shows the level-up bar and shortcut button in the UI.
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13 Mar 2023Developer post
Release Notes - v1.0.10 [Story mode changes + QoL + fixes]
Story mode update (see *TLDR) Story mode now has a lot more spare lives per run, but you get a score penalty each time you lose a life. You can therefore maximize your score by not dying. Improvements There is now a Graphics setting, "Minimize when focus lost", that can be disabl
Story mode update (see *TLDR)

Story mode now has a lot more spare lives per run, but you get a score penalty each time you lose a life. You can therefore maximize your score by not dying.
Improvements

There is now a Graphics setting, "Minimize when focus lost", that can be disabled to keep the game window visible when you alt-tab away from the game.
The XP multiplier based on difficulty level has been removed, mainly to make Casual difficulty feel less like a punishment, and more like a valid choice.
Max co-op player count has been increased to 4.
Fixes

Fixed an issue where the Gun for Hire perk would apply and give you credits each time you respawn, instead of only at the end of each combat encounter.
Fixed the energy bridge in the main base in story chapter 1 so that it uses the updated visuals just like the other energy bridges.
*TLDR Story mode update Background: All the game modes in Rogue Shift have the same gameplay structure at their core: battle enemy waves of increasing intensity, while you rapidly unlock Psionic abilities, find weapons and apply upgrades during a single run. When the run is over (you are dead, or some victory condition has been reached), you get to post your high score, and repeat. Spanning multiple runs, you can level up your character over time and unlock permanent Perks for that character, regardless of which game mode you choose to play. Between waves of enemies, do some exploring and looting. Etc. The point is, there is a core consistency between game modes, right down to the fact that you start "fresh", at the beginning, with each new run. This applies to playing (or re-playing) a Story Chapter or a chosen map in Final Stand or Escape modes. Typically, playing a Story Chapter takes about the same time as playing a round of Final Stand, although the latter can actually take much, much longer if you are having a very good run :) The issue: Regardless of this consistent run-based system, a pattern started to emerge in feedback, discussions and some reviews: there was a sense of unfairness and frustration at starting a story chapter at the beginning when your run fails (death). There are several reasons for this. One reason is that Story chapters offer much larger areas to explore, including discovering secrets and gaining access to optional areas locked behind security systems. When you play a chapter for the first or second time, there is a sense of discovery and exploration. But after dying 10 times without completing the chapter, "finding" the same areas and secrets can get a little old when combined with starting at the beginning of the chapter. Similarly, since there is an actual story and objectives to do, and these a linear, it's not the kind of thing you want to play 10 times in a row, especially if those attempts are all based on failing and just trying to finish a chapter. This frustration caused players to quit. The solution (experiment): This is a bit tricky. Since story chapters follow the same run-based approach with a high score posting at the end of a run, one can't simply turn it into a classic story mode with persistent saves along the way (let alone the fact that it would be a crazy amount of effort to change the systems now). After discussing many different options for solving this, I decided to experiment with a fairly simple change - depending on difficulty level, you get a lot more spare lives for each story chapter run - but, you get a penalty of -5000 score each time you die and respawn. This means that there is a fair probability that a new player and a low-level character will reach the end of a story chapter after 1 to 2 attempts, but that a new player is likely to get a much layer score than someone who can get through a chapter without dying.
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05 Mar 2023Developer post
Release Notes - v1.0.9 [Healing overhaul + inventory changes + balance + fixes]
Healing overhaul Healing now works the same way across all game modes. You can buy or find Nano-Meds and keep them in your inventory in all modes. You can see how many you have in the HUD, and use the indicated Heal button to use one to heal yourself. The auto-heal feature still
Healing overhaul

Healing now works the same way across all game modes.
You can buy or find Nano-Meds and keep them in your inventory in all modes.
You can see how many you have in the HUD, and use the indicated Heal button to use one to heal yourself.
The auto-heal feature still works before: a Nano-Med will automatically be used from you inventory to prevent a death-blow, but the healing amount will be reduced (penalty).
Inventory consistency

Your inventory and the inventory UI now works the same way across all game modes.
Your inventory now has limited space in Final Stand and Escape modes, just like Story mode. You can extend the capacity by buying Nano-storage items from the shop and via the Optimized Storage Perk.
Due the the changes in the healing system, the inventory across all modes is purely informational now. You cannot do anything there.
Balance

There were some discrepancies between the loot distribution settings for single-zone vs. multi-zone Final Stand maps. The settings have been tweaked up/down slightly so that they match for all maps.
Weapon "recoil" aim deviation over time is now more exaggerated so that there is a more noticeable difference between low accuracy weapons and high accuracy weapons.
Character aiming accuracy has been reduced overall, but the Combat stat boosts the accuracy more than before. This gives more of a noticeable distinction between a high-combat character and low-combat character's ability to aim accurately.
Changes

The "Auto" mods for Blast, Dome and Daze, will now activate even if your shield has taken the hit entirely without your health taking a hit.
The between-wave timer has been increased from 30 seconds to 45 seconds. You can of course still skip the countdown when you're ready for the next wave.
Fixes

Power Cells can now be bought in the shop in Final Stand mode to refill your shield, just like the other game modes.
Correctly reset the tutorial messages when you do a Reset Tutorial from the story mode menu.
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26 Feb 2023Developer post
Release Notes - v1.0.8 [Perks + balance + fixes]
New Perks Sensible Saver - At the start of each wave, earn 5% interest on your Credits if your balance is below 3000 (Final Stand and Escape modes). Gun For Hire - Earn 50 Credits at the end of each enemy wave. Shop Hacker - Get a 5% discount at shops and a 5% chance to pay nothi
New Perks

Sensible Saver - At the start of each wave, earn 5% interest on your Credits if your balance is below 3000 (Final Stand and Escape modes).
Gun For Hire - Earn 50 Credits at the end of each enemy wave.
Shop Hacker - Get a 5% discount at shops and a 5% chance to pay nothing at all.
Fixes

Fixed an issue with the traversable pipe in Story Chapter 3, which cause your character to get stuck if you attempted to interact with the far end of the pipe.
Fixed exploit - after initiating a reload, you could quickly swap to another weapon and back to avoid the reload delay.
Fixed a spelling error in the hint about co-op spare lives ("slive" -> "alive").
Balance

Weapon buff: Hammer (spread fire). It now fires 5 projectiles instead of 4. This gives it a DPS that is significantly higher than the Vengeance, and you get the same total damage out of one energy clip (400). Also, with the spread shot including 5 projectiles, there is now a central projectile that goes where you aim.
Improvements

Improved animated visual effect for energy bridges so that it doesn't look like terrible placeholder art.
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18 Feb 2023Developer post
Release Notes - v1.0.7 [small hotfix]
Fixed an issue where if you "stored" several Level-ups before finalizing (choosing Perks), the Perk selection would not properly randomize between each pick.
17 Feb 2023Developer post
Release Notes - v1.0.6 [small hotfix]
Fixed an issue where some barrels would go underground (Final Stand mode, Research Facility map). This caused aiming to go crazy, with the character trying to aim straight down into the ground at certain locations.
17 Feb 2023Developer post
Release Notes - v1.0.5 [QoL + fixes]
Improvements Shift ability (a.k.a. blink) - you can no longer Shift into insta-kill destinations such as into lava, through a laser gate or off a cliff. It might still be possible to fall off a cliff if you Shift extremely close to the edge onto a steep slope. XP progress toward
Improvements

Shift ability (a.k.a. blink) - you can no longer Shift into insta-kill destinations such as into lava, through a laser gate or off a cliff. It might still be possible to fall off a cliff if you Shift extremely close to the edge onto a steep slope.
XP progress toward your character's next level is now shown in the level bar - this applies to the HUD, the in-game character screen and the pre-game character select screen.
Ammo items (Ballistic Cartridge, Heavy Ballistic Cartridge, Energy Cartridge, Rockets, Fuel) now include a list of weapons to which they apply, shown in the first line of the description.
Sand Bugs (small enemies) will no longer avoid the Scorcher flames when they are close to you and you are spraying flames over their heads.
Weapon upgrades can now be done by clicking the upgrade tile (type/level), instead of first clicking the tile and then clicking a separate upgrade button.
Moved the shop terminal in the first zone of Edge of Doom (Final Stand and Escape modes) so that you don't accidentally run into the exit teleporter on your way to buy stuff at the end of the wave.
Balance

Pyro Perk - now renamed to Napalm - fire damage bonus is now 25% instead of 10%.
Fixes

In the weapon upgrades area (UI), now correctly changing the color of the upgrade status text, instead of the description text, based on the upgrade availability at each level/type.
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12 Feb 2023Developer post
RELEASE NOTES - v1.0.4
Improvements Select from 4 random Perks when you level up, instead of 3. Fixes Fixed Perk randomization. It got stuck on the same set, so that after selecting your perk, the unchosen ones would appear again at the next level-up.
Improvements

Select from 4 random Perks when you level up, instead of 3.
Fixes

Fixed Perk randomization. It got stuck on the same set, so that after selecting your perk, the unchosen ones would appear again at the next level-up.
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12 Feb 2023Developer post
RELEASE NOTES - v1.0.3
Balance For each run, Story mode now gives +2 spare lives for Hard, and +4 spare lives for Casual. Other modes are as before. The Psionic Cell cost of Overdrive has been increased from 1,2,3 to 2,4,6 (Lv1, Lv2 and Lv3). Improvements Perk - "Daze Mod - Targeting". Now targets larg
Balance

For each run, Story mode now gives +2 spare lives for Hard, and +4 spare lives for Casual. Other modes are as before.
The Psionic Cell cost of Overdrive has been increased from 1,2,3 to 2,4,6 (Lv1, Lv2 and Lv3).
Improvements

Perk - "Daze Mod - Targeting". Now targets large enemies instead of small enemies, with a +3s time bonus.
Added a main menu hint (right-hand panel) explaining that you have infinite respawns in co-op, so long as someone is still alive.
Proxy Mine improvement It was tricky to avoid taking hits from your own mines in the heat of battle, so the following adjustments have been made:

Activation time (before trigger is possible) increased from 0.5s to 0.8s.
Trigger time (explosion delay after triggered) increased from 0.25s to 0.4s.
Fixes

Spelling mistake of Perk - "Orb Magent" -> "Orb Magnet".
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10 Feb 2023Developer post
RELEASE NOTES - v1.0.2
Improvements Click once to unlock Psionics without having to first click the checkbox, then click the Unlock button. Info description on the Psionics unlock screen to explain that Psionics are reset with each run. Click once to purchase something in the shop, instead of selecting
Improvements

Click once to unlock Psionics without having to first click the checkbox, then click the Unlock button.
Info description on the Psionics unlock screen to explain that Psionics are reset with each run.
Click once to purchase something in the shop, instead of selecting the item and then clicking the Purchase button.
Added Australia to the manually selectable co-op regions.
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09 Feb 2023Developer post
ROGUE SHIFT Full Release v1.0
Since the initial Early Access release on Sep 7, 2021, we have released over 35 incremental updates, along the way responding to valuable player feedback and fixing many bugs. Our first full release build, v1.0.1, is out now. Although it's taken a little longer than planned to le
23 Jan 2023Developer post
ROGUE SHIFT is leaving Early Access
Since the initial Early Access release on Sep 7, 2021, we have released over 35 incremental updates, along the way responding to valuable player feedback and fixing many bugs. Although it's taken a little longer than initially planned, we've managed to add many small, but importa
07 Jan 2023Developer post
RELEASE NOTES - v0.2023.002
Fixes Fixed the portal rendering during cutscenes being dimmed out and not propertly showing the remote world. Improvements Now showing the character class helmet on the character select screen for better visualisation when selecting your character. Now showing a once-off pop-up
Fixes

Fixed the portal rendering during cutscenes being dimmed out and not propertly showing the remote world.
Improvements

Now showing the character class helmet on the character select screen for better visualisation when selecting your character.
Now showing a once-off pop-up message on the Game Mode Select screen, to inform the player that Story Mode includes a tutorial (solo only).
Changes

Updated the Early Access main menu pop-up message to mention the release date of v1.0.
Updated the description of Story Mode to mention manual inventory management.
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02 Jan 2023Developer post
RELEASE NOTES - v0.2023.001
Content A new map for Final Stand mode: Research Facility. Mode changes Survival mode (previously Doomed mode, which has the large 8-zone map called Edge of Doom) has now been reworked to fall under Final Stand mode. This means that Final Stand now includes 2 single-zone maps, as
Content

A new map for Final Stand mode: Research Facility.
Mode changes Survival mode (previously Doomed mode, which has the large 8-zone map called Edge of Doom) has now been reworked to fall under Final Stand mode. This means that Final Stand now includes 2 single-zone maps, as well as the 8-zone map from before. Nothing has really changed in terms of the underlying modes and their rules, it is just how it is presented in the UI now, all under the banner of Final Stand. Fixes

The Psionic Diversity achievement will now correctly unlock when you unlock all Psionics on your character.
Improvements

Suit Cooler can now be purchased in gameplay modes other than Story.
All maps now have hover descriptions telling you a little bit more about the map.
Changes

Changed the achievement image for Brutal Boss.
Changed some achievement descriptions slightly.
Chapter 3 improvements and fixes Please note that Chapter 3 is officially hidden until v1.0 is released. Early access can be gained on request, via our Discord.

Improved lighting conditions so that everything doesn't appear so "washed out".
Terminals now have bright and consistent UIs independent of the visual post-processing applied to the world.
The 2nd-last battle before the boss fight now has twice as many enemies (total number).
Final boss projectiles are now a bit faster.
Disallow final cutscene to kick off if the player is dead or respawning.
Snow dust particles and wind audio effects have been added to the ice world. Their intensity scales based on local temperature.
Incorrect main objective path indicator has been fixed.
Secret area entrance near crates have been enlarged.
Fixed a battle zone where the ice worms could escape and then be killed due to out-of-bounds detection.
Replaced the problematic laser gate with a wall.
Improved the muzzle flash effect of the final boss weapons.
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20 Dec 2022Developer post
RELEASE NOTES v0.2022.018
Balance With the Infected Guards now having bright laser beams giving away their approach, their attack range and movement speed have been increased slightly to compensate (they were far too easy to avoid). Improvements When attempting to Shift, but the target is blocked, a red e
Balance

With the Infected Guards now having bright laser beams giving away their approach, their attack range and movement speed have been increased slightly to compensate (they were far too easy to avoid).
Improvements

When attempting to Shift, but the target is blocked, a red exclamation icon will now be shown at the blocking location.
Fixes

Fixed an issue where the default laser pistol would hit the player instead of shooting ahead.
Now correctly hiding the Power Core quantity info in the HUD while not in active gameplay (for example, a message box is showing).
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18 Dec 2022Developer post
RELEASE NOTES - v0.2022.017
Improvements Infected Guard enemies now have red laser aim beams so that you can see them coming. Infected Guard enemies will no longer instantly aim onto the player character's position. There is now a smoothed aiming update toward the targeted player character. Environmental he
Improvements

Infected Guard enemies now have red laser aim beams so that you can see them coming.
Infected Guard enemies will no longer instantly aim onto the player character's position. There is now a smoothed aiming update toward the targeted player character.
Environmental heat damage and cold damage (extreme temperatures) will ignore your character's shield.
The Thermal Regulator item is now back in the game, renamed to Suit Cooler. It can be purchased at any shop.
Fixes

Fixed an issue where the character could walk out of bounds over steep terrain.
Fixed Shift targeting consistency when aiming off a cliff or drop - it will now always allow you to Shift in such a case.
Fixed a Shift targeting issue where it was not possible to Shift onto a nearby ledge or floor that is slightly elevated in relation to the character's position.
Elite Sentries will now trigger proxy mines even when their shields are active.
Now showing game mode name correctly in the pause menu.
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25 Oct 2022Developer post
RELEASE NOTES - v0.2022.016
Improvements Character select screen - now shows an image representing each difficulty level you select. Character select screen - a clearer warning is displayed to explain the restrictions of Casual difficulty level. Character select screen - tweaked the background and panels so
Improvements

Character select screen - now shows an image representing each difficulty level you select.
Character select screen - a clearer warning is displayed to explain the restrictions of Casual difficulty level.
Character select screen - tweaked the background and panels so the UI looks better.
Balance

Tweaked the started stats of the Scout class so that we don't have 3 different classes starting with Psi Lv1.
Slightly increased the rate at which your score multiplier drops while you are not getting any kills.
Achievement Changes and Fixes

Renamed "Doomed" mode to "Survival" mode in Achievement descriptions.
Reduced the Brutal Survivor Achievement requirement from 16 waves to 8 waves.
The Survivor, Ultimate Survivor and Brutal Survivor Achievements can now also be unlocked in Final Stand mode.
Fixed the Survivor, Ultimate Survivor and Brutal Survivor Achievements so they cannot be unlocked in Escape mode.
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23 Oct 2022Developer post
RELEASE NOTES v0.2022.015
New Content New mode - Final Stand - survive as long as you can against escalating waves of enemies in a single zone. New enemy - Drone (robotic flying enemy) Improvements and Tweaks Indicator is shown as "CRIT" when an enemy takes a Critical Hit. Power Core count is now shown in
New Content

New mode - Final Stand - survive as long as you can against escalating waves of enemies in a single zone.
New enemy - Drone (robotic flying enemy)
Improvements and Tweaks

Indicator is shown as "CRIT" when an enemy takes a Critical Hit.
Power Core count is now shown in the HUD. This makes it easier to see if you can activate a device before trying to interact with the device.
Reduced the size of teleporters.
Slightly raised camera height (explore / combat)
Energy bridges are less transparent and a bit darker.
Moved a spotlight in Story mode that was causing enemies to get stuck sometimes.
Added a spawn particle effect to supply crates, mainly to make spawning of supply crates look better in Final Stand.
Doomed Mode renamed to Surival Mode.
Added health drops to random loot distribution in Surival mode.
When a defence turret is destroyed, the attached power generator is now switched off (no emissive color) and further interaction is prevented.
Balance

Doubled the hitpoints of defence turrets.
Robot enemies no longer flee when taking damage (Zappy).
Further reduced the number of semi-hidden random weapon crates in Story mode, to slow down the weapon unlock progression.
Fixes

Fixed random loot not respawning in previous zones in Co-op Doomed.
Fixed robotic enemies standing idle instead of shooting, when they target defence turrets.
Fixed a bug that caused organic shooting enemies to shoot backwards when the character suddenly moves behind them during the shoot animation.
Fixed a route node in Edge of Doom, Survival mode near the mine, that cause the route arrow to point in the wrong direction.
Fixed an issue causing the Infected Guard to also benefit from the Selective Fire perk of a player.
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01 Oct 2022Developer post
Mini hotfix
Ground decals were disabled by accident, making the entire game look boring. Now fixed!
30 Sep 2022Developer post
RELEASE NOTES - v0.2022.014
New Perks Defensive - Maximum Shield +10. Spartan - Shield recharges slowly when you stand still during combat (aiming and shooting allowed). Energy Redirect - +10% energy weapon damage, but -10 maximum Shield. Incendiary Rounds - Ballistic weapon hits have a 10% chance to set en
New Perks

Defensive - Maximum Shield +10.
Spartan - Shield recharges slowly when you stand still during combat (aiming and shooting allowed).
Energy Redirect - +10% energy weapon damage, but -10 maximum Shield.
Incendiary Rounds - Ballistic weapon hits have a 10% chance to set enemies on fire.
Unstable Barrels - Barrels explode instantly from the slightest damage.
Barrel Shield - Explosive barrels do not reduce your Shield.
Optimized Storage - +25 inventory capacity (Story mode only).
Perk changes

"Dome Mode - Auto" - Dome now triggers automatically when you take a hit and your health drops below 25 (the low health alarm threshold), rather than when your health drops below 50%.
"Rage" - this perk now activates when your health drops below 25 (the low health alarm threshold), instead of below 10%.
"Rage" - due to the new lower threshold of activation, it now gives +50% damage instead of 2x damage.
Infected Guards - balance and behaviour

More natural behaviour - there is a slight response delay before the guard starts firing when you come into range. This is especially helpful in the case where you Shift suddenly into the guard's range. To further add to the more natural feel, the shooting burst continues once started, even if you move out of range.
Reduced the Combat stat to 1 - slightly less accurate shooting.
Dome Psionic Ability - balance and behaviour With higher Psi levels drastically lowering the Dome cooldown to below 30s, it was too over powered, with the possibility of having Dome active around 15% of play time. Dome values have been adjusted as follows:

Reduced the Dome duration from Lv1=3s, Lv2=4s & Lv3=5s, down to Lv1=2s, Lv2=3s & Lv3=4s.
Increased the Dome base cooldown from 40s to 45s (but again, way lower as your Psi goes up).
Story mode improvements

Removed random loot from the crash site to reduce the number of new item tutorials you are bombarded with in the first minute of playing.
Re-arranged some tutorial messages so fewer messages are shown during the first minute of playing.
Balance

Increased the targeting range of the Acid Ants from 5 to 6, but reduced their bullet speed from 14 to 12.
Fixes

Fixed ballistic bullet penetration not working correctly on some enemies, causing really weird side effects with the bullet triggered additional times after the shot.
Description improvements

"Blast Mod - Auto" Perk description now makes it clear that it doesn't work if the Blast Psionic is currently in cooldown.
"Daze Mod - Auto" Perk description now makes it clear that it doesn't work if the Daze Psionic is currently in cooldown.
"Dome Mod - Auto" Perk description now makes it clear that it doesn't work if the Dome Psionic is currently in cooldown.
"Shift" Lv3 Psionic description now includes damage info.
"Blast" Lv1 to Lv3 Psionic description now includes damage info.
Tweaks

Health "alarm" sound and the appearance of the red skull on your health bar, now happens when your health drops below 25 instead of 30.
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