Tag: Roguelike

Roguelike beat-’em-up Absolum’s new update is adding even more variety to 2025’s most replayable game

Roguelike beat-’em-up Absolum’s new…

When it came time to choose my personal pick in our 2025 Game of the Year awards, one game…
Put Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Hades and Risk of Rain in a blender and you get Helskate, plus a whole lot of jank

Put Tony Hawk’s Pro…

Helskate is the kind of wild genre-fusion design I love in videogames. Tony Hawk Pro Skater’s arcade score-chasing, combined…
Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap review – a tempered return for this tower defence titan

Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap…

It never goes well for the greenskins at the vanguard of an orc invasion force, but spare a thought…
I turned a human-hating mecha-hamster into the ultimate weapon of mass destruction who loves a pre-annihilation scritch

I turned a human-hating…

We all loved Vampire Survivors, sure. But you know what that game was missing? An adorable little Tamagotchi fella…
Undaunted by mixed Steam reviews, Hyper Light Breaker dev says it’s ‘encouraging’ to have ‘extremely reasonable’ early access feedback

Undaunted by mixed Steam…

After a hands-on preview with Hyper Light Breaker in late 2024, we walked away liking Heart Machine’s neon-splashed Drifter…
BioShock lead designer unveils fantasy real-time tactics roguelite Wartorn

BioShock lead designer unveils…

Stray Kite Studios, the indie developer co-founded by BioShock lead designer Paul Hellquist, has unveiled its first original title…
Hyper Light Breaker has great combat, impeccable vibes, and its ambitious randomized open worlds actually work⁠—the real test is if it goes the distance in early access

Hyper Light Breaker has…

At the end of 2024, I got to try one last hour-long preview of Hyper Light Breaker ahead of…
Lort devs reluctantly tweak the fantasy roguelike’s difficulty after players complain the Risk of Rain 2 successor is too hard: ‘You are meant to die and learn how to overcome the challenge’

Lort devs reluctantly tweak…

Fantasy roguelike Lort is an unabashed spiritual successor to Risk of Rain 2 that launched earlier this week. In…
Wormhole is an impeccable arcade revival of Snake that plays like it fell off the back of Derek Yu’s van

Wormhole is an impeccable…

PC gaming is incredibly adept at replicating the past, whether in the breakneck momentum of a boomer shooter, or…
This bizarre roguelike has a new take on the Vampire Survivors formula: letting you build your own custom weapons out of brains, eyeballs, and chimpanzee spines

This bizarre roguelike has…

A little over two years ago, I was taking my first run in Vampire Survivors, walking around a barren…