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Rooftops & Alleys could be the next big parkour game, but it trips over its own feet

June 20, 2025 7 Min Read
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Rooftops & Alleys could be the next big parkour game, but it trips over its own feet

I went into Rooftops & Alleys: The Parkour Sport anticipating to adore it from the bounce. Mirror’s Edge and Murderer’s Creed — a number of the greatest parkour video games of all time — dominated my adolescence. And since Rooftops & Alleys has the identical fashionable aptitude as Mirror’s Edge, albeit with a trendy trick-focused twist, à la Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater, my hopes have been excessive. Nonetheless, what I discovered was a clunky sandbox that places a premium on endurance, as it’s about ability.

Launched June 16 for Nintendo Change, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X, Rooftops & Alleys is a third-person platforming sim developed and self-published by MLMedia, an impartial, one-person studio.

I performed on Home windows PC and encountered points instantly: My DualSense Edge controller wasn’t acknowledged. Steam Enter was capable of repair my drawback rapidly, but it surely’s a minor frustration that foreshadowed the sport’s generally janky really feel. Comparability is the thief of pleasure, however the recreation doesn’t really feel as intuitive because the video games it mechanically attracts comparisons to.

Picture: MLMEDIA

Anybody can decide up Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater and have time kick-flipping away. Mirror’s Edge takes a bit longer to grasp, however by the top of the primary degree, you’ve gotten a primary understanding of the mechanics that may carry you to the top. Rooftops & Alleys calls for a sure degree of mastery from the participant, which is interesting, as I really like the considered changing into a parkour god on this title. Nonetheless, on the identical time, it worries me as a result of it’ll be tougher to advocate to my informal gaming associates.

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However earlier than you may get a grip on its methods, Rooftops & Alleys fumbles in adequately instructing you the way it works. There are two tutorials within the recreation, and also you entry them by way of the primary menu. Each tutorials are vanishingly transient and elective, so I’m uncertain what profit they provide within the first place.

Little doubt about it, Rooftops & Alleys may benefit from longer, extra detailed tutorials in addition to a trick tutorial (much like SSX Tough’s best-in-class trick e book). Any approach to discover touchdown each single trick within the recreation in a streamlined, intuitive setting could be a boon. Because it stands, you need to pause the sport, entry a sub-menu to discover ways to carry out the trick, then exit the menu to apply it, and repeat. It appears like Rooftops & Alleys has all of the items for one thing nice, however these items don’t coalesce into one thing nice.

This isn’t to say Rooftops & Alleys isn’t compelling in its personal odd means. As I continued to experiment with the sport and its techniques, it slowly started to fall into place for me. With each session, I discovered myself warming up with the tutorials in order that I might have the controls contemporary in my thoughts. As soon as I selected the map I wished to parkour by way of, the sport launched my hand utterly and let me run free — and it was superb. I spent lots of time utterly failing all of my methods whereas I attempted to study the timing. I performed round with the map’s time trials, and for those who can sense the sample, I failed these too. However with every failure, I seen I used to be enhancing; my landings turned extra constant, I turned sooner with every time trial try, I used to be higher at sustaining my momentum, and I used to be even beginning to have enjoyable.

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On one in all my greatest trick rush runs, I tried a trick towards the top that clipped me by way of the setting, just about dooming my high-point combo. Nonetheless, as a substitute of getting annoyed, I simply laughed, as a result of I might completely think about somebody in actual life touchdown a backflip awkwardly and getting caught between some pipes.

This second was the second the sport clicked for me, and I’ve been unable to place the sport down since. The Steam critiques counsel that those that strive the sport are additionally having fun with it — that’s, as soon as they turn out to be accustomed to the controls. Rooftops & Alleys helps multiplayer, and whereas most of my time was spent enjoying solo, I hopped into just a few lobbies to search out loads of individuals practising cool sequences of strikes. The open sandbox vibe of the solo play is simply as current with others, and there’s one thing enjoyable about racing your folks by way of the time trials and even sabotaging them from touchdown their methods. (Somebody stood in my means throughout a time trial, inflicting me to fail at touchdown a often easy-to-land cartwheel. I’m not mad, you’re mad.)

This recreation has clearly discovered an viewers, and as so typically occurs with these area of interest video games, the neighborhood will take the torch and run with it. Each multiplayer foyer I joined had individuals working, leaping, and failing spectacularly. Rooftops & Alleys isn’t excellent, but it surely’s bought attraction. As a solo participant, I lament the shortage of a story mode. Don’t get me improper, the grind of perfecting your methods and occasions is enjoyable but it surely does get a bit repetitive after a protracted session. Rooftops & Alleys gives a soothing (if unpolished) playground and with some extra updates and improved tutorials, it might turn out to be one thing actually particular. For now, it’s a distinct segment recreation with simply sufficient spark to maintain me on the grind.

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