Light&Dark takes the ever popular rouguelike genre and breathes a kooky, Wednesday Addams sort of life into it. Developed by Under the Stairs and ZEROLife, Light&Dark‘s premise isn’t too different from something like Luigi’s Mansion. You know, if it were a 2D rouguelike platformer. You play…
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Over the last several years, the gaming subgenre known as the “roguelike” seems to be making quite the comeback. It’s somewhat odd considering the grueling nature, and thus, the often niche appeal many of these titles provide, along with the fact that their roots stretch…
Tangledeep is a charming roguelike dungeon crawler from Impact Gameworks with gameplay inspired by games like Diablo and Rogue Legacy and an aesthetic that pays tribute to the 16-bit days of adventure games like Chrono Trigger. It’s a game that wants you to play; it…
Developer MoaCube describe Bonfire as a game that ‘respects your time but hates your guts’. It’s certainly an attention grabber, but I feel MoaCube might be underselling it here. While teeth-gritting trial and error is the Roguelike’s razor-tipped calling card, nothing in Bonfire’s difficulty feels…
Renowned Explorers: International Society is such a great game that we decided to write about it twice. It’s a roguelike that turns the genre on it’s head a little bit. Rather than using permadeath and random generation as a tool to beat the player into…
Limitless death and carnage await in ChaosForge’s modern sci-fi roguelike/RPG, Jupiter Hell. This new turn-based, 3D procedurally generated game, aims to take the 90’s sci-fi roguelike genre and turn it up to eleven. At least that’s what the Kickstarter campaign promises, with a hardcore metal soundtrack…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. (blank) is “a 2D procedurally generated roguelike with item crafting, dungeon looting, and a challenging combat system.” This is the opening sales pitch to Underworld Dungeon, the first Kickstarter from burgeoning developer Inferno Soul. Putting my feelings on 2D…
Wrack: Starfall is one pretty-looking game. The project’s cel-shaded art style is hardly original, but it sure looks good in motion, even at prototype stage. It’ll no doubt draw many eyes to the project – Kickstarter have already marked it as a ‘Project We Love’,…
Lobotomy Corporation is a rogue-like simulator out of South Korea. It combines elements of Prison Architect and Fallout Shelter with gory and gruesome monsters from fairy tales and urban legends. You take the role of a new administrator in a mysterious facility that harnesses the…
It’s always sad to see a crowdfunded project not make funding. It’s even more disheartening to have to get the news that a project cannot continue on. For one reason or another, usually related to time or money, the development for said game just has…
Roguelikes have definitely become a bit of a saturated genre, but for fans such as myself it’s hard to really mind the absolutely wealth of potential games to play. Another one was just added into the mix and it’s called Reikon Dungeon by Alcapa Games….
Wow, here’s a roguelike with one heck of a unique concept. In We Happy Few, you are the citizen of a dystopian 1960s England where everyone is on drugs. These drugs, known as Joy, turn regular folks into blissfully happy, obedient beings. However, if they…
Some things that normally don’t go together can still make a great idea. And Rolling Biscuit’s Monbattle takes several gaming concepts and smashes them into one game. To what effect remains to be seen but I’m afraid that this might be a case of to…
Most of the time, the progress of a crowdfunded PC game is as follows: It launches a Kickstarter/Indiegogo campaign, runs a simultaneous Steam Greenlight launch, and then hopes to see the success of one feed into the other. Ralin – Dwarf Wars didn’t take that…
Do you recall which was one of the first few games to usher the concept of “rogulike” back to the forefront of gaming? FTL: Faster Than Light, of course! Now, imagine a game that in many ways seems based on the many strengths of that…
It all begins when a group of scientists are invited to explore Neptune’s moon Triton in Neptune, Have Mercy. The team, along with military and other specialists, board a submarine and begin their exploration. As the name implies, this journey is anything but safe and…