When did Rule of Rose come out?

Rule of Rose was released on 19 January 2006 for PlayStation 2.

Rule of Rose (2006) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Rule of Rose

Rule of Rose is a survival horror game in which the player, who controls Jennifer, explores the game environments and furthers the plot by accomplishing tasks and experiencing cut-scenes while sporadically…

60 19 January 2006

What Rule of Rose is

Rule of Rose is an adventure game developed by Punchline and released in 2006. It was published by 505 Games. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

March, 1930. A young girl named Jennifer, whose parents were killed in a tragic airship accident, is taken to the Rose Garden Orphanage, located in a remote portion of the English countryside. What Jennifer discovers is a dilapidated building and a ragtag mob of children who call themselves the "Aristocracy of the Red Crayon." The demented residents of Rose Garden kidnap Jennifer and take her into the dark heart of an impossibly large zeppelin, on a meandering course for a distant land. Now, with the help of a canine companion named Brown, Jennifer has to find valuable gifts for the Aristocracy, or suffer a fatal punishment for her insolence...

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Rule of Rose holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average. Players rate it 69, 9 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Rule of Rose launched on 19 January 2006, within three weeks of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening Special Edition, Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening - Special Edition, 25 To Life and Dead or Alive 4. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening Special Edition, Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening - Special Edition, 25 To Life, Dead or Alive 4.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Rule of Rose yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

Know one? Send it in and we will test it →

Official trailer