Roguebot
A downloadable game
In the early sixties, NASA scientists detected a strange celestial body, that was slowly heading towards Earth, and the calculated a certain impact 60 years into their future. Based on intercepted radio transmissions from this asteroid-like body, they determined, that it was purposely guided. To avoid global panic, they decided to keep this find secret but to send an armed robot to intercept the body and exterminate the evil entities on board, smirkingly called the seven wizards.
Now over 60 years later, the probe with the robot has landed on the asteroid, but there is not a single scientist alive from the original crew. Scattered documents found in a mouldy box in a NASA basement is all that is left. Apparently, the robot has to be controlled using punch cards, and due to the asteroid’s rotation, there is only a small period of for sending the list of punch cards to execute during the next rotation.
Roguebot is a deck builder rogue-like dungeon crawler game for the C64.
- More than 50 different cards
- Sixteen different enemy classes
- Random generated dungeons
- Autosave at each level start
| Status | Released |
| Rating | Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars (2 total ratings) |
| Author | drmortalwombat |
| Genre | Card Game |
| Tags | Commodore 64, Deck Building, Dungeon Crawler, Roguelike |
Download
Click download now to get access to the following files:





Comments
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
Love this game, but I'm having an issue past level 25. Games save OK and reload immediately, but if I shut down and restart the game I go back to level 25. Using a Pi1541 drive emulator on an original shortboard 64.
Also, I started getting "BRK" cards in a red stop sign shape which prevent a full hand from being dealt. I can clear them with a trash can, but they seem like a bug not a feature?
Some enemies like the acid blob, virus or robot may add curse cards to your deck after a successful near attack. You may want to avoid close combat here - or have a trashcan ready. Other enemies like the skull may steal a card, or the zombie even destroy a slot.
If you have problems with a save file, you should check if it is actually changed when entering a new level - otherwise there might be some write protect issue. You can find me on the Everything C64 discord if you want to share the roguebotsave file with me for inspection.
Thanks for the detailed reply! As I mentioned, it only started after level 25 and nothing has changed about my drive setup. I'll try again and if I still have issues I'll get you the file.
As every good rogue-like, it is hard... And you never know when you'll finish your game...
c64! nice!!! inspiring!
Good game, thank you. I also added that to my December's New Commodore 64 Games -video too.
Deck builders reaching the C64? Nice. I will have to try this out.
very good
Nice game!
A difficult game.
Great stuff, thank you. ;-)
https://vitno.org
https://www.commodoreblog.uk
Good job!
https://c64universe.wordpress.com/2023/12/01/roguebot-2023-drmortalwombat/