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i followed the roguelike scene a bit when i was younger but i've kind of stopped paying attention to it since i no longer as much free time for hobbies. what a

i followed the roguelike scene a bit when i was younger but i've kind of stopped paying attention to it since i no longer as much free time for hobbies. what are the coolest roguelikes from the last ~5 years?

imh 8y ago
Rogue Legacy was fun.
- reificator 8y ago
  Progression beyond unlocking new ways to play the game (such as in FTL) almost immediately kills any interest I have in a roguelike/roguelite. Or really most genres that it's infested. What happened in the last 10 years that every game now needs to drip feed constant rewards rather than just being fun enough that you come back to play it? IMO the beauty of a roguelike is its impermanence. You pick it up, play for awhile, and if you lose the slate is wiped clean for next time.
indy 8y ago
Both Cogmind and Caves of Qud are really good
LoSboccacc 8y ago
Dwar Fortress adventure mode is pretty enjoyable if you get past the hardcore interface Adom just got a large rewamp and polish update, tome has a lot more questlimes, but of really new games are few: cogmind is one, doom rl depending on when you left off and for last there’s this thing I cannot wrap my head around for how amazing it is, even if it pushes ascii game boundaries all the way to the other side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9YdLPg3ncY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9YdLPg3ncY
- nyolfen 8y ago
  doomrl graphical release is probably the last thing i took a big dip into. thanks for the recs! just got cogmind.
myhf 8y ago
Frog Fractions 2
- reificator 8y ago
  Death is of no consequence in that game though, so I wouldn't consider it a roguelike. The mechanics are more important than the graphics when categorizing roguelikes IMO. That said, it is pretty fun. The original is even better though: http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions/ http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions/
m12k 8y ago
Slay the Spire does a great job of fusing roguelike and deck building game
- shoo 8y ago
  Slay the spire is fantastic and the devs are still layering on content and features. if you've ever played and enjoyed a deck-builder (e.g. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion ) and also like roguelikes you'll probably really get a kick out of it.
cturner 8y ago
Smart Kobold is non-euclidean, and a compelling play. Fidel is worth a look also.
- zenorogue 8y ago
  Smart Kobold (and other games by Jeff Lait, such as Vicious Orcs) have interesting, weird geometry indeed, but it is still "flat". A bunch of Euclidean square grids glued together. HyperRogue uses actual hyperbolic geometry, which is very different.
TeMPOraL 8y ago
Cataclysm: DDA is a great, open source roguelike zombie apocalypse survival game. Featuring open world instead of dungeons, and absurdly large number of crafting recipes.
imtringued 8y ago
Elona+ The caveat is that it doesn't have permadeath which leads to the usual grindyness associated with normal RPGs. On the other hand it also means that you can easily spend 200 hours on a single character.
Sylos 8y ago
I'm really enjoying Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup at the moment. Especially as a game for when I don't actually have time. It takes like two seconds to go from desktop to in-game, continuing your previous run, and saving your progress + closing is just as quick, so I often just launch the game when I have to wait a minute for something to finish. It's also really good at keeping up tension. It rarely feels too easy, if it does and you start playing careless, that's when it gets you. It also rarely feels too hard, it's almost always your fault when you lose. And it has a few mechanics to cut out the boring parts, like auto-explore which explores the dungeon until it finds an item, enemy or something else of interest. Or auto-combat which automatically walks up to enemies in sight and whacks them, however is entirely stupid at it, so it's only suitable for encounters where you see no risk of dying. And it has a crapton of content, and is really good at combining this content to form all kinds of interesting situations. https://crawl.develz.org/ https://crawl.develz.org/

imh 8y ago

Rogue Legacy was fun.

reificator 8y ago
Progression beyond unlocking new ways to play the game (such as in FTL) almost immediately kills any interest I have in a roguelike/roguelite. Or really most genres that it's infested. What happened in the last 10 years that every game now needs to drip feed constant rewards rather than just being fun enough that you come back to play it? IMO the beauty of a roguelike is its impermanence. You pick it up, play for awhile, and if you lose the slate is wiped clean for next time.

indy 8y ago

Both Cogmind and Caves of Qud are really good

LoSboccacc 8y ago

Dwar Fortress adventure mode is pretty enjoyable if you get past the hardcore interface Adom just got a large rewamp and polish update, tome has a lot more questlimes, but of really new games are few: cogmind is one, doom rl depending on when you left off and for last there’s this thing I cannot wrap my head around for how amazing it is, even if it pushes ascii game boundaries all the way to the other side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9YdLPg3ncY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9YdLPg3ncY

nyolfen 8y ago
doomrl graphical release is probably the last thing i took a big dip into. thanks for the recs! just got cogmind.

myhf 8y ago

Frog Fractions 2

reificator 8y ago
Death is of no consequence in that game though, so I wouldn't consider it a roguelike. The mechanics are more important than the graphics when categorizing roguelikes IMO. That said, it is pretty fun. The original is even better though: http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions/ http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions/

m12k 8y ago

Slay the Spire does a great job of fusing roguelike and deck building game

shoo 8y ago
Slay the spire is fantastic and the devs are still layering on content and features. if you've ever played and enjoyed a deck-builder (e.g. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion ) and also like roguelikes you'll probably really get a kick out of it.

cturner 8y ago

Smart Kobold is non-euclidean, and a compelling play. Fidel is worth a look also.

zenorogue 8y ago
Smart Kobold (and other games by Jeff Lait, such as Vicious Orcs) have interesting, weird geometry indeed, but it is still "flat". A bunch of Euclidean square grids glued together. HyperRogue uses actual hyperbolic geometry, which is very different.

TeMPOraL 8y ago

Cataclysm: DDA is a great, open source roguelike zombie apocalypse survival game. Featuring open world instead of dungeons, and absurdly large number of crafting recipes.

imtringued 8y ago

Elona+ The caveat is that it doesn't have permadeath which leads to the usual grindyness associated with normal RPGs. On the other hand it also means that you can easily spend 200 hours on a single character.

Sylos 8y ago

I'm really enjoying Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup at the moment. Especially as a game for when I don't actually have time. It takes like two seconds to go from desktop to in-game, continuing your previous run, and saving your progress + closing is just as quick, so I often just launch the game when I have to wait a minute for something to finish. It's also really good at keeping up tension. It rarely feels too easy, if it does and you start playing careless, that's when it gets you. It also rarely feels too hard, it's almost always your fault when you lose. And it has a few mechanics to cut out the boring parts, like auto-explore which explores the dungeon until it finds an item, enemy or something else of interest. Or auto-combat which automatically walks up to enemies in sight and whacks them, however is entirely stupid at it, so it's only suitable for encounters where you see no risk of dying. And it has a crapton of content, and is really good at combining this content to form all kinds of interesting situations. https://crawl.develz.org/ https://crawl.develz.org/