The Rogue Prince of Persia

The Rogue Prince of Persia on PC is a 2D roguelite action-platformer from Evil Empire, published by Ubisoft. Steam, Epic Games Store, and Ubisoft storefronts currently use the same official title, with no verified PC rebrand or replacement edition. Its identity comes from fast parkour, repeatable runs, and a Prince who returns to the oasis after death to keep fighting the Hun invasion.

Wall-running combat built around movement

The Rogue Prince of Persia treats traversal as part of the combat system rather than a separate platforming layer. The Prince can wall-run across visible background surfaces, vault over enemies, flip behind them, and chain jumps through hazards or open gaps. This creates a side-scrolling game where positioning is as important as attack power.

The basic fighting style combines a main weapon with ranged tools, kicks, dodges, and an air-stomp. A kick can send enemies into walls, traps, cliffs, or other opponents, while a well-timed vault creates space for a charged attack. The result is a combat loop that rewards improvisation instead of standing in front of enemies and trading hits.

Weapons change the rhythm of each run. Daggers favor rapid strikes, the royal saber provides a different balance of reach and speed, and heavier options such as the tabar axe create slower but more forceful attack patterns. Ranged choices, including bows and chakrams, give the Prince additional ways to control crowds and punish enemies from a distance.

Levels reshuffle between attempts, changing enemy placement, treasure locations, platforming challenges, and route choices. Players can encounter traps, rescue events, treasure rooms, optional traversal challenges, and teleport points that make branching exploration more manageable.

Death, rebirth, and permanent progression

The Prince's magical bola explains the roguelite structure in-world. When he dies, he returns to the last safe time and place, the oasis, carrying knowledge from the failed attempt even though much of the run's temporary progress is lost.

Each run begins another attempt to push through Persia's invaded capital and uncover what happened to Ctesiphon. Death can reveal new narrative clues, characters, areas, and objectives, so the story is connected to the repeated-run structure rather than stopping whenever a character falls.

Soul Cinders provide an important risk-and-reward layer. These resources can be spent at the oasis to unlock weapons, medallions, skills, and permanent improvements, but the Prince may lose unbanked Cinders if he dies before reaching a place that sends them back to camp.

The Mind Map, world map, objectives, and mini-map help organize the game's non-linear structure. They are particularly useful when a run branches toward the War Camp, a biome challenge, a rescue event, or a route that was previously inaccessible.

Medallions, weapons, and build decisions

Build variety comes from combining weapons with medallion effects and persistent skill-tree upgrades. Medallions can add status effects, improve specific actions, grant legendary ability boosts, or interact with neighboring medallions to create stronger combinations.

The Prince can carry multiple medallions, making placement and replacement meaningful decisions during a run. A defensive effect may keep a fragile build alive, while a status-focused setup can turn kicks, wall impacts, or weapon specials into the center of the strategy.

Vayu's Breath rewards players who maintain chains of wall-runs, dodges, and attacks. Keeping the sequence alive fills a meter that grants a burst of speed, and compatible medallions can improve the benefits gained from this momentum-focused system.

The progression model is therefore broader than simply collecting stronger gear. Players are learning routes, improving movement, unlocking equipment, testing synergies, and deciding when to protect their accumulated resources rather than pushing deeper for a better reward.

Content structure and current PC edition

The current PC product is a paid standalone game rather than a free-to-play title. The main purchase contains the complete roguelite experience, including its story progression, biomes, weapons, medallions, enemies, bosses, oasis upgrades, and post-completion challenge structure.

Ubisoft's current game information highlights more than 100 weapons and medallions, while the progression systems give those items long-term value through unlocks and build experimentation. The appeal is not a linear campaign with one fixed loadout; it is the accumulation of knowledge and options across repeated attempts.

No separate rebranded “definitive” PC edition is identified across the current storefront listings. Cosmetic rewards and platform or account-linked extras should be treated separately from the core game, rather than confused with a paid expansion that replaces the base product.

Who should play The Rogue Prince of Persia?

This is a strong fit for PC players who enjoy precision platforming, responsive 2D combat, procedural routes, and progression that develops through repeated failure. The movement is the main attraction, especially for players who like turning wall-runs, kicks, dodges, and aerial attacks into one continuous sequence.

It also suits players who prefer active build decisions over passive stat growth. Choosing a weapon, arranging medallions, banking Soul Cinders, and selecting a safer or riskier route can all change the shape of a run.

Players seeking online multiplayer, split-screen co-op, or a traditional open-world Prince of Persia adventure should look elsewhere. The PC storefront identifies the game as single-player, and its replay value comes from solo mastery, permanent unlocks, and escalating challenges.

PC features, controls, and localization

The PC version supports keyboard and mouse as well as gamepad play. Controls are fully rebindable for both input methods, with additional options for stick swapping, movement and camera inversion, dead-zone adjustment, and screen-shake intensity.

Accessibility tools include adjustable dialogue and item text size, color filters, independent music and sound-effect controls, and navigation aids such as the Mind Map, mini-map, world map, and story objectives. Awakening Runs provide a configurable higher-difficulty structure for players who want to keep increasing the challenge after completing the main progression.

Steam lists Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud support alongside the single-player feature set. A Ubisoft account and Ubisoft Connect are optional for the Steam version according to the developer's published FAQ, while the Ubisoft Store edition uses Ubisoft Connect as its PC distribution platform.

Interface and subtitle support covers English, French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Russian, Latin American Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and Persian. The current Steam language table identifies subtitle and interface support rather than a broad full-audio localization offering.

Related PC games for comparison

Players coming from fast 2D roguelite action-platformers such as Dead Cells will recognize the emphasis on repeated runs, weapon experimentation, branching biomes, and learning enemy patterns. The Rogue Prince of Persia separates itself through its wall-running focus and more explicit parkour-combat flow.

For a non-roguelite alternative within the same broad franchise, story-driven Persian platforming adventures like Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown offer authored exploration, ability-gated areas, puzzles, and a more conventional campaign structure.

The closest comparison depends on what matters most to you. Choose The Rogue Prince of Persia for acrobatic movement and repeatable runs; choose a traditional action-platformer if you want fixed exploration, a continuous narrative route, and less emphasis on rebuilding a character after every death.

The Rogue Prince of Persia FAQ

These answers focus on the questions most relevant to buying and playing the current PC version.

Is The Rogue Prince of Persia still the official PC name?

Yes. Current Steam, Epic Games Store, and Ubisoft listings use The Rogue Prince of Persia. It began as a Steam Early Access project, but the current storefront product is presented under the same name rather than a renamed legacy or definitive edition.

Is The Rogue Prince of Persia a roguelike or roguelite?

It is a roguelite action-platformer. Runs use reshuffled levels, temporary equipment, and death-based resets, while Soul Cinders, weapons, medallions, skill trees, narrative discoveries, and other unlocks provide progression between attempts.

Does the PC version have multiplayer or co-op?

No. The current PC listing identifies The Rogue Prince of Persia as a single-player game. It does not advertise online co-op, local co-op, split-screen play, or a multiplayer campaign.

Does the Steam version require Ubisoft Connect?

No mandatory Ubisoft Connect launcher or Ubisoft account is identified for the Steam version. Ubisoft Connect is used by the Ubisoft Store PC edition, while the Steam release provides its own Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud features.

What is the real endgame structure?

The game is built around continued mastery rather than a fixed post-campaign activity list. Players can expand their weapon and medallion pool, refine skill-tree upgrades, complete optional challenges, experiment with builds, and use Awakening Runs to raise the difficulty of future attempts.