Now is the perfect time to start playing The Rogue Prince of Persia

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This has been a good year for both early access games and the Prince of Persia franchise. The Rogue Prince of Persia is right at the center of that Venn diagram.

This roguelite, which was externally developed by former Dead Cells developers at Evil Empire and published by Ubisoft, entered Steam early access in May. I already thought it was a very entertaining and satisfying roguelite then, even if it did have clear room for growth and improvement. Today, Ubisoft and Evil Empire released early access Update 10, deemed “The Second Act update,” which overhauls The Rouge Prince of Persia in some significant ways. That makes now the perfect time to give this roguelite a shot if you just can’t wait for its 1.0 release.

Goodbye purple

If you need a clear indication that The Rogue Prince of Persia has changed, just look at its player character. Previously, the Prince’s skin color was purple, playing into a very vibrant, comic book-like overall aesthetic. Although The Rogue Prince of Persia retains its colorful art direction, the Prince’s color is now a more natural-looking skin tone. There have also been plenty of other small touch-ups to the art to make it even prettier.

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These artistic improvements mean the intro cutscene has been replaced with one more relevant to the story. Update 10 fleshes out the narrative a bit, as the new sequence shows the Prince losing a fight against Nogaï, the king of the Huns invading Persia. He’s then saved by a mysterious figure named Paachi, who brings the Prince to an oasis that doesn’t move forward in time.

Thanks to a bola the Prince is wearing, he can repeatedly set out to discover more about the Hun’s invasion