Rogue Stormers throws players into randomly generated levels for some twin stick platform shooter action. The game features 7 missions where you'll be scoping out enemies, collecting items, and exploring a new labyrinth each time. Gold can be used to buy new items from the store, or take your chances on the jackpot. Upgrades can increase you health, firepower, movement and more. There's also souls you can collect that act as experience, which allow you unlock perks for your character. The controls in Rogue Stormers are a bit busy. You move with the left stick and shoot with the right. You jump with the left trigger, fire your secondary with the right trigger, activate your skill with L1, and boost with R1, which is best for dodging attacks. It takes a while to get comfortable with, mostly the jumping, but it works.

You'll want to pick up a secondary weapons as soon as possible, and you'll always be looking for health because taking damage hurts alot. This leads to hit and run tactics, which can make progression feel a bit slow. It's more fun if you team up with a buddy, but they'll also have to be proficient and patient if you want to get far. And you need to unlock characters by getting further into the game. Once you run out of health it's back to beginning of the campaign.

If you want to complete the game I recommend pausing and quitting once your health gets low. This let's you restart the mission instead of starting from the beginning. Overall, Rogue Stormers is a nifty mix of 2D platforming and twin stick shooting, with some adventure and RPG elements thrown in for good measure. Success is a bit dependent on what items you come across, so it can be a crapshoot. Speaking of which there's a lot of crap shooting at your and bullets can be hard to see. But it's the dynamic challenge that kept me engaged up to the final boss.