Rogue Port - Red Nightmare

Rogue Port - Red Nightmare

Released May 2016

Help reunite your missing friends and save your family from wild animals, mutants, inanimate objects, aliens and the undead!

77% positive · 143 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Rogue Port - Red Nightmare launched on May 9, 2016 and received a series of feature patches and bug fixes in the roughly two years that followed. The developer actively improved the game through 2016 and 2017, adding new content such as tier enemies, new maps, character customization options, and quality-of-life improvements. The most recent developer communication was a bug fix patch on June 1, 2018, which resolved a crash caused by a Steam SDK update affecting achievements. There have been no developer posts of any kind since that date — a silence of over eight years as of June 2026. No DLC has ever been listed for the game, no expansion or sequel content was announced for this title, and no roadmap or future content commitment was ever made. A teaser for a separate game ("Rogue Port - Blue Nightmare") appeared in a November 2017 patch as an in-game Easter egg, but this refers to a different title, not additional content for this game. The store description describes a self-contained RPG experience with no language suggesting ongoing content delivery. The game appears to have concluded its post-launch support cycle with the June 2018 maintenance patch.
Evidence
Patch 1.96 released to fix a crash caused by a Steam SDK update breaking the achievement script. This is the most recent developer communication on record.
news post · Jun 1, 2018 source development ending
high
Patch 1.95 added save-anywhere functionality, gender selection for the main character, and expanded weapon class options — the last feature-adding update before development went quiet.
news post · Apr 21, 2018 source content shipped
medium

Media

Details

Publisher
Volens Nolens Games
Achievements
11
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player

About this game

"Rogue Port - Red Nightmare" is a turn based modern RPG that uses a 16 bit graphic style and an in game day/night calendar system with dynamic lighting where you name your friends and pet dog at the beginning of the game, choose one of three classes for your primary character and answer a series of questions to determine your primary character's stats.

Features include :

- Full Controller Support.

- Dynamic Equipment (main Player's character sprite changes based on what apparel is equipped).

- Day and Night System (1 second is a minute in game time), Calendar System (4 total months for each Season).

- Dynamic Lighting (different lighting in exterior cells based on time).

- Random Trash Can Items (each searchable trash can in the game offers 1 of 3 random items).

- Stamina Sprinting (you can only run until you run out of stamina).

- Temporary Fog of War (cave and dungeon tiles are only visible around the Player in a small radius).

- Secret Chests (every map in the game that has enemies has a secret chest that will only appear when all the enemies are defeated on that map).

- Portals (there are a total of 30 different portals, each appearing on a different day on the calendar regardless of the season).

- Animated Battlers and Backgrounds (enemies you fight in battle are animated as well as the background).

- Dynamic Music (soundtrack will change depending on if it's day or night time).

- Arcade Games (two arcade games that both have unique prizes called "StarShot" and "Jumper" can be played).

- Player's Garden (behind the Player's house, there is a garden that allows them to grow up to 4 crops at once. Crop grade depends on how many times you've watered them before harvest and eating them will increase your max stamina meter).

- Seasonal Town Festival (at the end of each month, a festival starts in the City of Rogue Port where the Mayor will judge contestants crops for a chance at unique prizes that cannot be found elsewhere).

- Original music compositions by Cwglassmusic and Kain Vinosec.
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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