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…
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.…
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…
My favorite little Elden Ring: Nightreign feature is the first evolution of FromSoftware’s iconic ‘bloodstains’ since 2009’s Demon’s Souls, and has roots in a roguelike from way back in 1987

My favorite little Elden…

There are a few things in FromSoftware’s RPGs that just sear themselves into the brain. The enormous sound effect…
What the heck is Elden Ring: Nightreign? Our big explainer covering new characters, loot, roguelike mechanics and more

What the heck is…

If you just watched the trailer for FromSoftware’s new game and reacted the same way I did, the three…
Elden Ring: Nightreign hands-on: 6 hours with FromSoftware’s wild new co-op roguelike action RPG remix

Elden Ring: Nightreign hands-on:…

FromSoftware producer Yasuhiro Kitao asks us to forgive him if he seems nervous. He doesn’t, but I’d have already…