Action · April 24, 2024

Rotwood (2024)

local_offer-20% current discountgroup1M–10M ownersrecommend7.1k recommendations
The world has fallen into chaos, and it’s up to you and your friends to battle the corrupted beasts that threaten your home. Choose your weapon, upgrade your gear, sharpen your skills, and get ready to take on the frenzied foes of Rotwood! Surviving Rotwood is no easy task. You’ll need practice, strategy, and refined combat skills to tackle the game’s toughest encounters. Featuring rich and varied combat mechanics, play solo or co-op with up to three friends, fighting increasingly challenging encounters as you battle your way through 7 unique locations. Complex and Rewarding Combat Rotwood focuses on combat mastery and gear progression to defeat enemies that you once thought impossible. Pick your target carefully and sharpen your skills as you face increasingly difficult encounters. Battle your way through deceptively vicious rots in search of your true foe, a powerful, corrupted boss battle that will put your abilities to the test. Experiment with various gear combinations and refine and perfect your build to best make use of these strange powers. However, true success comes from skill, adaptability, and strategy. Diverse Weapons and Combat Styles Button mashing and decent gear will only get you so far. Practice and perfect combo attacks for each weapon type to reach your destructive potential. Discover and upgrade different weapons and armor to further enhance your combat effectiveness. Master a variety of weapons or specialize in the one that suits you best. Each weapon type offers its own distinct combat style and benefits. Get in close to smash, slam, pierce, or hang back and blast your foes from a distance. Face Powerful Bosses Boss fights are not just a test of strength but also a test of skill. Each boss has unique attack patterns and mechanics, requiring careful analysis of their weaknesses and precise mastery of your weapons to tackle Rotwood's toughest foes. Victory grants you unique loot required to face ever-increasing challenges as you progress through the game! A New Hunt - A Better Hunter. While every run offers different powers and abilities, progression is built on skill and mastery rather than randomness. Through practice and proficiency, you’ll learn to take down increasingly formidable foes more effectively with greater efficiency and precision. The challenges ahead may be unpredictable, but your fate is not. While Rotwood has elements of randomness, true mastery comes from skill, adaptability, and precise execution, not luck.

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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Early Access · 303
  • Hack and Slash · 275
  • Dungeon Crawler · 269
  • Rogue-lite · 265
  • Beat 'em up · 263
  • PvE · 256
  • Rogue-like · 247
  • RPG · 241
  • 2D · 240
  • Action · 237
  • Family Friendly · 236
  • Adventure · 231
  • Co-op · 226
  • Local Co-Op · 213
  • Local Multiplayer · 209

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume7.5k Steam reviewsTop 47% in Action
Positive rating76% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 77%
Engagement hours10 h averageTop 45% for session depth among Action

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • Co-op
  • Online Co-op
  • Shared/Split Screen Co-op
  • Shared/Split Screen

Community

  • Steam Cloud
  • Remote Play Together

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

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Release & Availability

Release dateApr 24, 2024
DeveloperKlei Entertainment
Base price$15.99 -20%
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksSupport

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

10h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

6h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

1h

Current engagement

Reception Metrics

Steam community

76%Mostly Positive · 7.5k reviews

5.7k positive · 1.8k negative

Curator recommendations

7.1k

Editions & Packages

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