Rose of Dragontail
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
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Fight as scrappy young Rose in this fast and fluid fantasy beat-em-up action game! Transformed into a half-dragon hero of the realm, she will crush enemies of the people from thieving brigands to invading armies. Send them flying with draconic strikes, slams, throws, and flames or break crates, barrels, plates, and chairs on their heads!
2026 demo out now!
Controls
| Action | Controller (recommended) | Keyboard |
| Move | Left Analog Stick or D-pad | Arrows |
| Attack | X, Y, Square, or Triangle button | Z |
| Jump | A, B, Cross, or Circle button | X |
| Sprint | RT, RB, R1, R2, R, or ZR button | Left Shift |
| Pause | Start, Options, or Plus button | Esc |
| Quick Restart Checkpoint | Start+Back, Start+Select, Options+Share, or Plus+Minus buttons | F2 |
| Quit | Alt+F4 |
* The actual X button on Nintendo controller.
Moves
- Attack - hit enemy 3 times for 3-hit combo
- Jump to avoid enemies and attacks
- Attack in the air for half tail spin
- Sprint to quickly rushdown or evade enemy
- Attack while sprinting for a powerful kick!
- Knee enemy by sprinting into him without attacking - then can follow up with attacks, grab, etc
- Jump farther while sprinting
- Grab enemy (or enemy-sized object) by walking into him
- Move him around with directions
- Attack 3 times without pressing a direction for 3-hit grab combo
- Throw him with Attack + a direction!
- You can swing him around longer as long as you can twirl the directions just right...
- Sprint and carry him around!
- Ground slam with Jump then Attack!
- He breaks free if you do nothing
- Get missiles by walking into them - you can hold up to 2 slots
- Throw one with Attack - autoaims at enemy in front
- Throw both with Attack while sprinting! Autoaims at as many enemies as possible
- Catch missile in flight by tapping direction towards it before it hits you!
- Charge fireballs by holding Attack, release to launch - costs 1 or more full flame bar
- Charges faster while you are taking a hit or a fall
- Saves you automatically if you die!
Credits
Programming & Design
Art
- Rose by 2Dpixx and SlagathorRex
- RPG Worlds
- LPC Food
- Universal LPC Spritesheet Generator
- Benjamin K. Smith (BenCreating), Sander Frenken (castelonia), dalonedrau, Durrani, ElizaWy, Johannes Sjölund (wulax), kheftel, Marcel van de Steeg (MadMarcel), Matthew Krohn (makrohn), MuffinElZangano, Nila122, Pierre Vigier (pvigier), Stephen Challener (Redshrike), William.Thompsonj, Zi Ye, Manuel Riecke (MrBeast), XOR, bluecarrot16, David Conway Jr. (JaidynReiman), Joe White, Fabzy, DarkwallLKE
- Additional enemy graphics
- Beat-em-up Graphics Pack
- Cover art
Sound & Voice
Music
| Updated | 17 days ago |
| Status | In development |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Rating | Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars (5 total ratings) |
| Author | IoriBranford |
| Genre | Action, Fighting |
| Made with | LÖVE, Aseprite, Tiled |
| Tags | 2D, Beat 'em up, Dragons, Fantasy, Female Protagonist, Pixel Art, Singleplayer, Top-Down |
| Average session | A few minutes |
| Inputs | Keyboard, Xbox controller, Gamepad (any), Playstation controller |
| Links | Source code |
Download
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Click download now to get access to the following files:
rose-of-dragontail-win-64.zip 23 MB
Version dev2026.1
Rose_of_Dragontail-x86_64.AppImage 24 MB
Version dev2026.1
rose-of-dragontail-game.love 19 MB
Version dev2026.1
Development log
- 2026 demo fix 117 days ago
- 2026 demo23 days ago
- 2025 demo and Rising Tide ChallengeJun 08, 2025
- 2024 demoNov 16, 2024
- Update 2022-05-18May 19, 2022
- Post-jam Update 1Mar 13, 2022
- Known issuesMar 05, 2022



Comments
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Fun, some enemies have annoying attack patterns, which are copied into the bosses attack patterns and combined with a lot of stunlock.
Fun and fast paced! Not usually a beat-em-up person but this was very fun. Would love to play more!