Tag: Roguelike

Balatro dev shares an excellent list of his favourite indie games of 2024

Balatro dev shares an…

Balatro may have swept the awards this year – including securing a place on our 50 best games of…
If you can put Balatro down for half a second, the lead dev behind it has recommended some other stunning indies with a very low-key awards ceremony of their own

If you can put…

Balatro is obviously one of the best games from 2024, and now the dev behind it has shared what…
Vampire Survivors’ highly anticipated deck-building spin-off is getting an Xbox and Steam demo soon

Vampire Survivors’ highly anticipated…

If you’re one of the 200K+ people who’ve already excitedly wish-listed Vampire Survivors’ much-anticipated deck-building spin-off Vampire Crawlers, there’s…
Game of the Year 2024: Balatro

Game of the Year…

Our choice for the overall game of 2024 is the poker roguelike that played its cards right all year.…
Cult of the Lamb’s Woolhaven DLC is everything I could’ve wanted and more, with brilliant fights, lethal weather, and of course, heaps of cute little critters

Cult of the Lamb’s…

I do not know what Massive Monster puts into Cult of the Lamb. You’d think after over 50 hours,…
I was skeptical of Supergiant making a sequel, but Hades 2 has more than earned its place in the roguelike pantheon, and it’s not even finished yet

I was skeptical of…

Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of…
Best Roguelike 2024: Caves of Qud

Best Roguelike 2024: Caves…

Our favourite roguelike of the year was deeply strange and absurdly deep. It’s the impossibly inventive retrofuturist fantasy Caves…
This finely-honed samurai strategy game deserves a place in the roguelike hall of fame this year just as much as Balatro

This finely-honed samurai strategy…

Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the…
Shiren the Wanderer’s simple graphics disguise a systems-dense roguelike full of the emergent stories I love the genre for

Shiren the Wanderer’s simple…

Shiren The Wanderer didn’t quite invent the traditional roguelike genre, but this long-running, rarely localized Japanese series sure as…
Ballionaire review

Ballionaire review

Need to Know What is it? A pachinko machine that’s also a strategy roguelike.Release date December 10, 2024Expect to…