I recommend Children of Morta. Like Hades it has a great story to go with its gameplay and the pixel work is beautiful. Also the game is narrated by a guy with a David Attenborough esque voice.
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Roguelike - Embrace the dnmRoa
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I recommend Children of Morta. Like Hades it has a great story to go with its gameplay and the pixel work is beautiful. Also the game is narrated by a guy with a David Attenborough esque voice.
Awesome. I gotta check that out :)
Thank you. Those sound intriguing. I have seen FTL being praised quite a bit, but never managed to snatch it. It sounds a lot like one of my favourite board games Space Alert.
Thank you. I'll check that one out too. I have had some great recommendations.
Ah, that makes sense. I think I remember having that bracelet on.
Thank you.
For me at least, outside of the very obviously roguelike design, it comes down to how the systems-driven and emergent the game is. Like technically Spelunky, Noita, Into The Breach, and FTL would probably fit more in the roguelite category due to being hybrids with rogue elements, but I consider them roguelikes because they allow for that improvisation and learning of systems and emergent unpredictability. Enter The Gungeon or Binding don't have that aspect.
The problems with such a distinction is that a) it's quantitative, nor qualitative, and b) as a consequence, it's subjective, not objective. Even if we were to agree on this specific definition, we almost certainly would not on what games fit each category. This makes for a very poor basis to decide whether to use one term or the other on, especially in the context of taxonomizing games.
It's fine to disagree with definitions or what a term should be applied to (see: Smash as a fighting game, Dark Souls as a JRPG), but at some point we have to at least attempt to define them in a way that it's objectively defined in a way that most people (should they adopt that specific definition) would clearly classify items on; otherwise communication, the whole reason for them existing in the first place, breaks down. A definition that leaves it to personal opinion whether each game is a "like" or "lite", conveys no actual useful information in conversation.
Aside from that, the distinction between "roguelike" as a strict genre, and roguelite as a characteristic of a game in potentially any genre, is still necessaty. Using the terms in that way you suggest would necessitate the creation of new terms for these two other meanings (which I'm not necessarily opposed to, if it removes the ambiguity seemingly historically inherent to "roguelite" and "roguelike" :) ).
I've really been looking forward to this coming out of EA. Looks like a game I can sink 1000 hours into easily.
They're really calling it Endless Dungeon after making a game called Dungeon of the Endless. I get that Endless is a franchise but geeze.
I hope they consider a name change, but definitely looking forward to it. Amplitude's Endless series really has a unique energy behind it.
You guys don't really understand. I got linked this video without knowing the five Ws and I was thinking is this related to dungeon of the endless?
Watched to end, thought feels like it. When over I saw the dev and I lost my marbles. Hyped!
Watched to end, thought feels like it. When over I saw the dev and I lost my marbles. Hyped!
Yeah, this looks really great. I need to get back to Dungeon of the Endless at some point. The GA had a surprising amount of stuff that piqued my interest; love they're giving indie games so much visibility.
More Tales of Maj'Eyal progress.
Monolith armour, stat-stacking, 1h + off-hand dagger + telekinetic gem, Zombie Mindslayer Insane RL winner is done - https://te4.org/characters/106938/tome/fd58b673-d182-4e24-a362-4660e00441e5
My 2nd Insane rl winner and the 1st build winner of mine where I didn't take the build from a character vault as a template. My first build who did 6, 7 and 8k single damage attacks too. Had easier time clearing High Peak than on my previous Skirmisher winner, but survivability-wise if not for Subcatenous Metallisation prodigy I'd have died quite a few times in the East, lol. Then again, I might have not played as recklessly without it. Still, for the past 200+ hours of in-game time I often thought of making SM prodigy work for me and this build was the first where I felt like I wasn't gimping myself with it. Now I can forget about it and move on, lol.
Last fight, though, took me more time than on Scirmisher. I didn't realize that I've been healing one of the bosses with my blight damage Frenzied Focus and Retch. Oh, well, had a lot of fun with the build and if I to change something:
Monolith armour, stat-stacking, 1h + off-hand dagger + telekinetic gem, Zombie Mindslayer Insane RL winner is done - https://te4.org/characters/106938/tome/fd58b673-d182-4e24-a362-4660e00441e5
My 2nd Insane rl winner and the 1st build winner of mine where I didn't take the build from a character vault as a template. My first build who did 6, 7 and 8k single damage attacks too. Had easier time clearing High Peak than on my previous Skirmisher winner, but survivability-wise if not for Subcatenous Metallisation prodigy I'd have died quite a few times in the East, lol. Then again, I might have not played as recklessly without it. Still, for the past 200+ hours of in-game time I often thought of making SM prodigy work for me and this build was the first where I felt like I wasn't gimping myself with it. Now I can forget about it and move on, lol.
Last fight, though, took me more time than on Scirmisher. I didn't realize that I've been healing one of the bosses with my blight damage Frenzied Focus and Retch. Oh, well, had a lot of fun with the build and if I to change something:
Thermal Shield 5/5 => 1-2/5
Kinetic Aura 2/5 => 1/5
Pyrokinesis 1/5 => 5/5
As for Generic Talents, I should probably have went for:
Dagger mastery 2/5 => 1/5
Retch 3/5 => 1/5
Quick as Thought 1/5 => 4-5/5 getting one more point by sacrificing either 1 point from Danger Sense or Form and Function.
I left Quick as Thought as 1/5 because I thought I won't have muchPpsi due to -70% fatigue from Monolith armour, but after I leveled voracity talents from 1 to 3 near/at 50 lvl, I stopped having any psi problems.
Kinetic Aura 2/5 => 1/5
Pyrokinesis 1/5 => 5/5
As for Generic Talents, I should probably have went for:
Dagger mastery 2/5 => 1/5
Retch 3/5 => 1/5
Quick as Thought 1/5 => 4-5/5 getting one more point by sacrificing either 1 point from Danger Sense or Form and Function.
I left Quick as Thought as 1/5 because I thought I won't have muchPpsi due to -70% fatigue from Monolith armour, but after I leveled voracity talents from 1 to 3 near/at 50 lvl, I stopped having any psi problems.
Sooo I've been playing Rogue on my mac… on the Terminal (iTerm 2, to be more exact), and it's fantastic. I love the simplistic look of it, it can't be more barebones than that. I know I can play the DOS version using Boxer, but the Terminal version has a certain charm to it and it let's me play quick games while waiting for some processes to finish… :P
A bit later I died due to starvation btw… XD
A bit later I died due to starvation btw… XD
Can anybody comment on the current state of Griftlands? It looks really interesting, but I'm debating whether to wait until it's out of early access. The most recent stuff I can find from Klei indicates they had planned to hit 1.0 late 2020, but the window is closing on that pretty fast.
It's like 90% done, Just the third character's last day content is still missing. The first two characters are 100% done.
What's the structure of the game (in terms of the characters)? Like is each one compartmentalized, so I could play the first two while holding off on the third until they're done?
Yes totally. I highly recommend it - its very unique in how you have to manage social elements that can have consequences in and out of combat. Befriending the right faction can come in useful in a job where you may unexpectably encounter them. Social links unlock powerful abilities, so you'll have to balance your agenda with which links you want to preserve.
Awesome— thanks to both of you for the info. Will be picking it up soon then!
Sooo I've been playing Rogue on my mac… on the Terminal (iTerm 2, to be more exact), and it's fantastic. I love the simplistic look of it, it can't be more barebones than that. I know I can play the DOS version using Boxer, but the Terminal version has a certain charm to it and it let's me play quick games while waiting for some processes to finish… :P
A bit later I died due to starvation btw… XD
BTW brogue is also available via homebrew if you want another terminal RL.
Yes, and it looks absolutely beautiful! The other day I started searching for more homebrew roguelikes and found some more:
Where all them roguelike deals at?
It's probably the roguelike with the most accessible UI to date. It's fun at the moment and updated pretty rapidly, but a lot of the main systems are still missing so it's more like a fun tech demo currently. Which isn't too bad, because dying it real easy. Probably a good gateway roguelike and nice if you like keeping up with the game as it's getting done.
Has anyone played Stoneshard? It looks fantastic, but would like to hear more from people
It's probably the roguelike with the most accessible UI to date. It's fun at the moment and updated pretty rapidly, but a lot of the main systems are still missing so it's more like a fun tech demo currently. Which isn't too bad, because dying it real easy. Probably a good gateway roguelike and nice if you like keeping up with the game as it's getting done.
Picked up Griftlands— played through the story of the first character and managed to win, and then had a run with the second character where I died to what I assume was the final boss. Very cool/interesting game, but I wish the runs weren't so long. The failed run with the second character was at least four hours or something, but for my tastes, I like runs that are like 30 min, with an hour or something being the upper limit.
Has anyone played Stoneshard? It looks fantastic, but would like to hear more from people
Game is gonna be fantastic when finished. Already has a lot of fun stuff in it but it's still so small compared to what they want to accomplish.
I specifically bought it to support the devs and help them realize their intention
Yeah I decided to wait on it - all the comments about balance made me realize I'm not ready to be jostled around, rather just have a smooth time with the game from day one.
If you look at the roadmap, they want to release the "City of Gold" update in Q2 of this year.
That's the one that will add the caravan mode, the global map mode etc... to the game which are basically THE big systems of the game.
So that's the update to keep an eye on.
Also, try out the free demo!
It's a kinda tutorial/scripted prologue to the game's story and is REALLY well done.
I just bought Nova Drift, easily one of the best I've played out of recent roguelikes. I think I'm enjoying it more than Hades actually.
It has a free demo on Steam which is the prologue. check it out
You can actually download and play Loop Hero's alpha version for free on itch.io:
LooPatHerO (alpha of Loop Hero) by Four Quarters team
fourquarters.itch.io
There's also a good 20 minute playthrough from Easy Allies:
Definitely in the top 5 of my most anticipated for 2021
It's really addictive. I finished the demo (killed the boss) but went for a second run almost immediately afterwards, hahah.
Hi, I'm a recent adept at roguelitin' and I was considering my options for both ps5/xbox. I like Dead Cells, Children of Morta and Everspace (I guess I like the combat style), is there any other accessible roguelike with permanent progression you'd recommend?
Elona you mean? I've had that game in my bookmarks for forever but never got around to playing it myself.
