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Roller Drama

The visual novel / sport management mashup game of your (anxiety-ridden?) DREAMS! Lead a team of Roller Derby athletes using strategy and real-time controls. Outside the ring you’ll have to manage five big personalities as they grapple with friendship, heartbreak, and late capitalist society…

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Open Lab Games
Publisher
Open Lab Games
Release
January 26, 2023
3 years and 188 days ago
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Positive26 reviews80.8%

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About the Game

A SITCOM?!?


In Roller Drama, you (Joan) live with & coach five kickass athletes: Anne, Portia, Lily, Cordelia, and Juliet. Together they form a top Roller Derby team, a full contact sport on quad skates!



Your job is to act as a keeper of the team, managing both their personal and professional lives. Try to balance everyone’s emotions as they navigate rivalries, friendships, and love.

REAL-TIME FULL-CONTACT SPORT!


While personal dramas rage on, you’ll also need to manage Roller Derby matches in real time! Plan strategies, give orders, and manage the match using arcade-inspired controls.

SURVEILLANCE


Roller Drama is set in a dystopian alternative world where things are going… slightly worse than they are here. Political and environmental upheavals interfere with daily life.

KEY FEATURES


  • Interactive narrative with meaningful choices (almost 100!) and multiple endings
  • Vivid, explorable universe
  • Replayable narrative and matches: every championship is unique, several different endings
  • Replay a specific chapter
  • Real-time roller derby matches
  • Coach a team of five athletes with wildly different personalities
  • Hand drawn character art by award winning illustrator Vic Macioci
  • Play with controller or mouse + keyboard
  • Cloud saves



Note: this is not a Roller Derby simulator: match gameplay is inspired by Roller Derby but it then defines its own kind of game.
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