The Rogue Prince of Persia

Most action roguelites treat movement as a way to get between fights. The Rogue Prince of Persia, developed by Evil Empire, refuses that hierarchy: parkour and combat are fused into a single expressive system where wall-runs and acrobatic chains feed directly into offensive and defensive options. Released on August 20, 2025, it casts players as a Prince whose early mistake has condemned Persia, and each run is a fresh attempt to undo that catastrophe through a procedurally generated version of the kingdom.

Combat is built around precision and momentum rather than resource attrition. The Prince dodges traps, strings acrobatic combos, and strikes with a suite of over 100 weapons and medallions that can be discovered, unlocked, and upgraded across a run. These items combine in ways that reward deliberate build-crafting: a player choosing how medallions interact with weapon types will find meaningfully different runs rather than cosmetically different ones. Difficulty modifiers and random events further reshape each attempt, and the game layers in a narrative dimension where repeated runs surface new characters, secrets, and story beats rather than simply reshuffling the same content.

The game entered early access with steady numbered patches and, in May 2025, received the Power and Fury update, which expanded build potential and reworked controls. June 2025 brought a substantial quality-of-life pass described as the final major pre-release update before version 1.0 launched in August. A rapid series of hotfixes followed through August and September 2025, stabilizing the release build. Evil Empire then announced post-launch content for 2026, published a Spring Roadmap in February 2026 outlining two planned updates, and released patches in February and March 2026. As of a developer broadcast in March 2026, one anticipated update was pushed to summer 2026.

For players who found Dead Cells’ combat satisfying but wanted movement to carry more narrative and structural weight, The Rogue Prince of Persia represents a direct evolution of that design philosophy under the same developer.