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None of the games you listed are roguelikes. I think the most popular roguelike of the past decade is Pixel Dungeon and it remains fairly niche. They are all g
by WastingMyTime89 4y ago
None of the games you listed are roguelikes. I think the most popular roguelike of the past decade is Pixel Dungeon and it remains fairly niche.
They are all games with procedural generation or elements of randomness which have absolutely nothing to do with the gameplay loop of Rogue.
At some point people called them roguelites but I don’t think it makes much sense.
- bowl_of_milk 4y agoYou're using the strict sense of the definition and being overly pedantic. All of those games have the concept of "runs" where you encounter procedurally generated environments and empower your character with proceduraly generated items. That is quite literally the gameplay loop that was borrowed from Rogue. "Roguelike" is a genre descriptor much like "FPS" is a genre descriptor. It doesn't have to tell you what the graphics look like or how the game is played--no need to gatekeep the term.
- anthk 4y agoThen Zelda for the GB it's a roguelike.