$29.99Rollerdrome Shoot While You Skate
Fight your way through a televised skate-and-shoot tournament in a retrofuture dystopia, where tricks are ammunition and kills are health.
Is Rollerdrome worth it?
Rollerdrome is worth it if…
- you want a shooter where movement matters as much as aim
- you like games that are easy to start and genuinely hard to master
- you chase high scores and want leaderboards to prove yourself on
- you enjoy a stylish dystopian story told in short, sharp doses
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Tricks reload your guns, kills refill your health
Every part of the fight feeds the other. Out of ammo? Get airborne. A grab, a grind, a spin: the fancier the trick, the more bullets land in your gun. Low on health? Take down a house player and the kill patches you up. The result is a loop where standing still is the only wrong move. You dodge a rocket, slide under it, pop a short burst of slow motion to line up a shotgun blast, then roll toward the nearest ramp because your pistols are dry again. It sounds like juggling, and at first it is, but the controls are tight, and once they click the whole arena turns into one flowing combo where shooting and skating are the same verb.
A blood sport with something to hide
The year is 2030. Corporations run the world, and the public is kept happy with Rollerdrome, a televised tournament where skaters with guns put on a violent show. You play Kara Hassan, a rookie with mounting debt and a shot at the championship. Between bouts, short story vignettes hint that the Matterhorn corporation behind the sport has plans of its own, and the conspiracy under the spectacle slowly comes into focus. The whole thing is drawn in a comic-book inspired style with a saturated retrofuture palette, backed by an original soundtrack that merges era sounds with modern production. The tone stays darkly funny throughout: the violence is the entertainment, and the game knows it.
What about the difficulty?
Can you play it solo?
Yes, it is a singleplayer game through and through: a campaign tournament you work through alone, with online leaderboards to compare scores against everyone else's runs once you are done.
Is there anything to do after the campaign?
There is. Each arena hides trick challenges that push your score higher, leaderboards reward clean runs, and an unlockable mode called Out For Blood serves up the most extreme test of skill and agility in the game. Short levels and score chasing make it easy to talk yourself into one more run.
