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Nah. It's ultra boring in comparison to nethack, pathos or more complex games like revengate(!) or greedy cave. My listing of similar games: - Grim Omens 3/5

Nah. It's ultra boring in comparison to nethack, pathos or more complex games like revengate(!) or greedy cave. My listing of similar games: - Grim Omens 3/5 - Revengate 4/5 - Dungeon Crawl Soup (on pc) 4/5 - The greedy cave 5/5 - Pathos 4/5

nrjames 1y ago
Brogue (Community Edition) also is awesome! https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE
- philsnow 1y ago
  Nethavk is much much too baroque, a confusion of ideas and one-turn unavoidable deaths (well, avoidable if you know the secret handshake)[0]. It's like a cupcake recipe that has 40 ingredients and is dripping with extra stuff on top. Brogue, on the other hand, is perfectly simple but perfectly well-executed, a five-ingredient recipe that lets every ingredient shine.
4ggr0 1y ago
ahhh, rainy sunday and i get a recommendation for abstract indie games, today is going to be a good day...
- 4ggr0 1y ago
  ...Project Silverfish[0] is really entertaining so far... [0]https://store.steampowered.com/app/2941710/Project_Silverfish/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2941710/Project_Silverfis...
integralid 1y ago
>ultra boring Of course, this is just your opinion, presented as an objective fact. HyperRogue is one of the few roguelikes that I got sucked into. In comparison, I never "got" DCSS and despite several tries I always got bored immediately.
- zokier 1y ago
  I like hyperrogue but I think it is arguable that it is not very good as a roguelike; I like it more as a puzzle game. The thing is that in hyperrogue each of the worlds is almost entirely self-contained, and the choices you make in one world, or the order you go through the worlds, do not really impact the overall run in any major way. So it lacks the combinatorial explosion of possibilities that many good roguelikes (incl nethack) have.
- BiteCode_dev 1y ago
  Everybody understands that it's an opinion, it's a social convention, no need to spell it out. Just like people saying "broccoli are bad" doesn't need to be subtitled with "it's a matter of taste" or this dress looks ugly implies that it's a subjective take on aesthetics.
lock1 1y ago
Like other sibling comment said, I think it's just your personal opinion. I don't think The Greedy Cave is that complex or belong to traditional roguelike category, more like MMO's grindy number game with some microtransaction.

nrjames 1y ago

Brogue (Community Edition) also is awesome! https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE

philsnow 1y ago
Nethavk is much much too baroque, a confusion of ideas and one-turn unavoidable deaths (well, avoidable if you know the secret handshake)[0]. It's like a cupcake recipe that has 40 ingredients and is dripping with extra stuff on top. Brogue, on the other hand, is perfectly simple but perfectly well-executed, a five-ingredient recipe that lets every ingredient shine.

4ggr0 1y ago

ahhh, rainy sunday and i get a recommendation for abstract indie games, today is going to be a good day...

4ggr0 1y ago
...Project Silverfish[0] is really entertaining so far... [0]https://store.steampowered.com/app/2941710/Project_Silverfish/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2941710/Project_Silverfis...

integralid 1y ago

>ultra boring Of course, this is just your opinion, presented as an objective fact. HyperRogue is one of the few roguelikes that I got sucked into. In comparison, I never "got" DCSS and despite several tries I always got bored immediately.

zokier 1y ago
I like hyperrogue but I think it is arguable that it is not very good as a roguelike; I like it more as a puzzle game. The thing is that in hyperrogue each of the worlds is almost entirely self-contained, and the choices you make in one world, or the order you go through the worlds, do not really impact the overall run in any major way. So it lacks the combinatorial explosion of possibilities that many good roguelikes (incl nethack) have.
BiteCode_dev 1y ago
Everybody understands that it's an opinion, it's a social convention, no need to spell it out. Just like people saying "broccoli are bad" doesn't need to be subtitled with "it's a matter of taste" or this dress looks ugly implies that it's a subjective take on aesthetics.

lock1 1y ago

Like other sibling comment said, I think it's just your personal opinion. I don't think The Greedy Cave is that complex or belong to traditional roguelike category, more like MMO's grindy number game with some microtransaction.