HyperRogue

HyperRogue

Released Jan 2015

Time moves when you move in a truly non-Euclidean world

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Evaluation

HyperRogue is a long-running indie roguelike that has been continuously updated since its 2015 release. The developer (Zeno Rogue) has shipped a steady stream of major version updates over the years: versions 10.3 and 10.4 in 2018, v11 in January 2019, v11.2 in September 2019, v11.3 in March 2020, v12.0 in June 2021, v13.0 in December 2023, and v13.1 in August 2025. Each major release has added new lands, game modes, geometry options, and other substantial content. Beyond major versions, the developer regularly ships feature patches and bug fixes — the most recent update (v13.1l) was posted on May 2, 2026, just under two months ago. The store description explicitly states "HyperRogue is often updated!" and describes an expanding roster of experimental modes and content. The August 2025 post for v13.1 noted that more development effort had recently shifted toward the related RogueViz Collection project, but still delivered new lands and features for HyperRogue itself. There is no developer statement indicating that HyperRogue development is winding down or complete. With a consistent multi-year cadence of major updates and the most recent patch arriving in May 2026, the game is clearly still in active post-launch development. No specific future content has been formally announced, but the sustained update pattern and lack of any "final update" statement indicate that more content is likely to come.
Evidence
Feature patch v13.1l released with gameplay improvements, new compass-and-ruler functionality in the drawing tool, touchscreen improvements, and numerous bugfixes — the most recent developer communication.
news post · May 2, 2026 source development ongoing
high
Major update v13.1 released, adding two new Crossroads land variants, new land structure options, Chinese translation, custom mode manager, and more. Developer notes ongoing work on the HyperRogue engine via the RogueViz Collection.
news post · Aug 6, 2025 source content shipped
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Details

Developer
Publisher
Zeno Rogue
Achievements
308
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op

About this game

You are a lone adventurer in a strange, non-Euclidean world. Gather as much treasure as you can before the nasty monsters get you. Explore about 60 different lands, each with its own unique treasures, enemies, and terrain obstacles. Your quest is to find the legendary treasure, the Orbs of Yendor. Collect one of them to win! Or just ignore your quest and collect smaller treasures.

The twist is the unique, unusual geometry of the world: it is one of just few games which takes place on the hyperbolic plane. Witness a grid composed of hexagons and heptagons, straight lines which seem to be parallel, but then they diverge and never cross, triangles whose angles add up to less than 180 degrees, how extremely unlikely is it to reach the same place twice due to practically infinite size of the world (centillions of locations in just 700 steps from the starting point), and how the world seems to be rotated when you do return. All this matters for the gameplay. The game is inspired by the roguetime genre, works of M. C. Escher, and by puzzle games such as Deadly Rooms of Death.

HyperRogue is often updated! Other than the original 2D hyperbolic puzzle roguetime game, HyperRogue includes experimental modes, allowing one to change many aspects of the game for your non-Euclidean experimentation, such as racing mode, real-time "shmup" mode, 3D geometries including Thurston geometries, SteamVR virtual reality. If you want to play HyperRogue as a non-Euclidean first person shooter, it is possible too!

Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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