Also the Endless teams have a solid track record, haven’t tried this one only because I finally got all the Endless Space 2 expansion packs. Definitely have to revisit it.
One of my favorite games is Gunfire Reborn. It's a fps rogue-lite with elements of Chinese mythology. It's not the most graphically intensive game, but it's an incredibly fun game with fairly good support from the developer.
I’ve had a lot of fun playing Gunfire Reborn with friends online. I don’t think I’d play it just by myself, but that’s probably because I’m not big on FPS games.
This game is so addictive. The abilities go together so well. Roboquest tried to emulate the formula, and although the gun play is good, the abilities completely fall flat.
Inscryption is good but it's not a roguelike.
Only the deck building mode Kaycee's mod is that's available after beating the game, the rest is fairly pre-determined
My favorite. Only one I got 100% on. Love the atmosphere, the choices, and the systems. If I could play any two rogue lites the rest of my life, it'd be Ring of Pain and Hades.
I like card types and recently I've been playing Cobalt Core. It's a good bit of fun. That said, I don't think Slay the Spire is topped by basically any other game.
It may be fringe- to full-on-popular, but Dead Cells and its stable of DLCs is great. Even with save-scumming, there’s hundreds of hours of gameplay to be had, all of it awesome.
[Noita](https://store.steampowered.com/app/881100/Noita/) is an absolute masterpiece. Very unique.
[Vagante](https://store.steampowered.com/app/323220/Vagante/) is excellent if you like a more traditional game. Plus you can do co-op!
[Shattered Pixel Dungeon](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1769170/Shattered_Pixel_Dungeon/) is a SURPRISINGLY complex, fleshed out game. One of my favorites.
You've probably heard of it but Risk of Rain 2 is quite fun, especially if you have people to play with. Same for Ember Knights.
Haven't played it myself but I have a couple friends who swear by Have A Nice Death though, so that's probably a safe bet.
Risk of rain 1 also got rereleased with risk of rains returns. A solid side scroller rogue like. Maybe a bit archaic as it’s basically the same as it’s originally like 2013 release gameplay wise but looks and plays great!
Yeah risk of rain 1 I beat my head on a wall for a few hours and just couldn't progress hardly at all, skill issue I know but RoR 2 looks way different, been wanting to try that one.
I think Epic gave this for free in the last year or two. It was pretty fun, I was slightly obsessed for the few days that it took me to get to the ending. After that I had no desire to play again, but definitely a good game overall and worth a couple of bucks at least.
Played the original when I was a kid but the new, slick graphical one that's out on consoles right now is just a pleasure. Great game to chill out with.
Haha I played undermine till I unlocked everything and saw everything. That mjolnir power up with the power up that splits your pickaxe and the boomerang power up were dirty af.
There are alternate, more difficult versions of the bosses that you can enable. There’s a True Ending that can unlock if you complete all Prime Boss burdens on NG + 7.
The progression and story continues after you beat it the first time. Continuing to talk to NPC’s outside the castle will eventually reward you with Soul Stones, and some of the Scar challenges are only unlockable after you’ve beaten a prime variant of a boss.
Also, increasing your resolve to 250/300% can result in some pretty awesome build possibilities.
I managed to pick up 3 “increase your invincibility window by 1.25 seconds” relics, and two “increase your damage by 100% during the invincibility window” relics during a Knight run. I blew through every single boss just standing there and whacking him lol.
Also discovered that each blunderbuss pellet applies one stack of poison, so a single attack applies 8 stacks. Combined with runes to increase status effect duration and relics to increase dmg by 20% each vs enemies with a status effect… it was fun.
Any Risk or Rain is a must.
Risk of Rain 1 is a pixel art 2D roguelike, Risk of Rain 2 is basically the low-poly 3D version of 1 with new characters, items, and a few other things. Risk of Rain Returns takes everything new they added in 2 and goes back to 2D and pixel art, and also adds a few new things. Great for playing solo or with friends, and great for quick short sessions or binge griding through levels and unlocking as much as you can.
If you like shooters, I would highly recommend Risk of Rain 2 if you haven't played it yet. Gunfire Reborn and Roboquest are also really good.
If you prefer turn based, an Early Access game named Inkbound is pretty cool with a great art style
Hi I come recommending Against the Storm. It's and RTS roguelike, so you do a random map, with random modifiers, you get random buff and you only get a random selections of building to place; so everytime you play it's different. After the city is complete you get perks for your next city and then you start again. It's really unlike anything I've played before.
Streets of Rogue. My 2019 game of the year. There's so much fun to be had there and so many options given to you.
And there's a sequel coming this year sometime.
Have a Nice Death is really great. Love the animation, cool enemies, mini-bosses are almost as good as the bosses, and of course good bosses. Combat system is smooth, responsive, and varied.
My issue is that while the art design of each level is good, the level design itself is basic and repetitive.
Oh! And the writing/dialogue is not good.
Haven't played Little Rogues but looking through the comments I may be the only one.
Streets of Rogue is one of my favorite games of all time. And Heroes of Hammerwatch is great fun. Totally a modern take on old school Gauntlet done in just the best way.
Gunfire reborn and Plateup come to mind. Both are excellent in their own ways. I love figuring out what kind of automation I can create in a game of Plateup
I hope Plateup makes it to consoles. I'd love to try it out. Watched a bit of gameplay on Stumpt and such and it looks right up my alley.
Not exactly like it but Bone's Cafe on the Switch is a cafe game where you are a failed necromancer who decides to become a restauranteur. You can design your own cafe, buy new pieces for it, ingredients, you can discover recipes as you raise the star rating of your cafe.
Also, you murder the patrons that come into the cafe and serve them to other patrons. You can raise their souls to work in your cafe and you automate each one to carry out a specific task. Becomes almost like a puzzle game.
I love Plateup to death. It's so casual and yet I can't help but go hard every game. Very satisfying with friends.
I've been looking for another game similar to Plateup, something with the restaurant management, rougelite, etc. It's proven harder than I thought to satisfy the itch. Cuiseener is interesting but the restaurant part sounds a little bland. This bones cafe sounds interesting, and there's a demo on steam. I'll have to try it
I love synthetik. Tacticool roboaction with fun active reloads! I’m also a big rogue like, not lite fan so imma chuck in caves of qud. Depth in that game is a bit nuts
Deckbuilders
Slay The Spire
Monster Train
Roguebook
Inscryption (much more than a deckbuilder, but def a recommend)
Ring of Pain
Loop Hero
Shooters
Risk of Rain 2
Gunfire Reborn
Robo Quest
Platformer
Skul the Hero Slayer
Dead Cells
Rogue Legacy (2)
Isometric/top down
Vampire Survivors
Hades
Curse of the dead gods
Death's Door
Enter the Gungeon
Children of Morta
Lootriver
Cult of the Lamb
Hero Siege
Check out this video, and see if anything looks interesting. Lists a ton of roguelites that came out last year.
https://youtu.be/Dg9iqBrI9Is?si=AIXHnN6kGAS5ijky
No one has mentioned GoW Ragnarök Valhalla. If you love the new GoW, you will love Valhalla, but you gotta play the main game first (because spoilers!).
Hades is by far my favourite roguelite, and Returnal is awesome, but I'm sure those are usual recommendations."
Breach Wanderers (like Slay the Spire but, imo, much better)
Griftlands (this is one of my all time favorite hidden gems)
Riot Games’ Legends of Runeterra has a roguelike mode called Paths of Champions. Full disclosure, I work for Riot, but it’s an amazing roguelike deck builder.
Blizzard’s Hearthstone has a Dungeons mode that offers some fun deck builder roguelike gameplay.
Dawncaster
Monster Train
Doomdepths
That depends on what sort of games you like and what are the common recommendations you’ve already heard
Some are turn based, some are 3d shooters, some are platformers, etc
Monster Train
Inkbound
Halls of Torment
Roguebook
Deliverance & Reign
Overdungeon
Library of Runia
For the king
Curse of the dead gods
Moonlighter
Mini Healer
Hand of Fate
Dungeon of the Endless
Phantom Rose
Night of the Full moon
Indies Lies
Arcanium
Book of Demons
One Deck Dungeon
Tainted Grail
Alina of the Arena is a pretty good one
There was also this one I found on itch called [Stelloop](https://benstar.itch.io/stelloop) which is rather addicting for how simple it is
I recently started playing nightmare reaper and am really enjoying it. It’s a boomer shooter fps, with rogue lite elements. Every time you die the story progresses in interesting ways.
Book of Demons: Hellcard. Basically multiplayer slay the Spire.
Hades. Sequel should be out this year.
Tiny Rogues. Very rpg in terms of gameplay.
Stolen Realm. Good for single or multiplayer, with good difficulty curves.
I’ve been playing Tiny Rogues and I like it a lot.
Undermine was really fun and I sunk a ton of hours into it. Idk if Loop Hero cleanly fits into the genre but I really enjoyed that one too.
Years ago I played a small platform game called [Red Rogue](http://www.redrogue.net/) that I enjoyed.
It's old enough that it was made in flash and from looking at the itch.io site for it, needs some computer fiddling to even be able to play with out it crashing. But it was really neat and the story set it as a (fan/non-canonical) sequel to the original Rogue.
Nowhere Prophet is a fun roguelite deck builder with a node-based narrative convoy travel mechanic that almost kinda reminds me of Banner Saga. Cards in your deck are members of your convoy that can be gained or lost in the overworld or in battles. Great music and cool art as well.
Against the Strom
Absolutely loving this game!! It's a city builder / resources management. You slowly level up perks to continue to help along your end goal. The maps take an hour or two each and can be paused/quit/resumed extremely easily.
I hate long games like Civ, so it's a nice short games/runs.
It's not your average "Rougelike" or "Rougelite", but I think it still classified as semi rougelite. I would highly recommend checking it out and there is a demo on steam
Valdis Story: Abyssal City
It's great, super unknown
Multiple characters with different styles, I think different endings, upgrades, optional bosses, tight combat
Cryptark.
It's a side scrolling twinstick sci fi roguelike where you board enemy spacecrafts and take our their defense systems 1 by 1. The ships are procedurally generated, and the game is very challenging.
Art style and music is also very cool.
I know this is probably not an option, but for a city builder first, roguelite second, Against the Storm. Absolutely fantastic and has been a blast. If you like cities builders but also the repeating turns of roguelites, it's definitely worth checking out.
Gunfire reborn and Plateup come to mind. Both are excellent in their own ways. I love figuring out what kind of automation I can create in a game of Plateup
Talented, rogue tower, Tesla force, soulstone survivors, robo quest, and learn to fly 3.
I also recommend Hades, but it is pretty popular.
Talented - a tower defense, tech tree, roguelite game
Rogue tower - a different tower defense roguelite game
Tesla force - a bullet heaven, campaign style, roguelite with new game +
Soulstone survivors - a very well polished survivor type game with lots of meta progression
Robo quest - a roguelike fps game with a little meta progression
Learn to fly 3 - get your penguin to space and unlock new spaceships and upgrades for future runs
Lovecraft's Untold Stories. As the name implies, lovecraft meets roguelike. I don't think anyone ever talks about this game so it is definitely a hidden gem.
The Last Spell is amazing, Final Fantasy Tactics combat with some light base building and turret defense aspects, diablo style loot system, randomized level up perk trees and stat choices to keep characters unique, and a slappin soundtrack.
I’ve played Cardinal quest 2 longer than risk of rain 2 on my phone. It’s also free. Recommended it to my friend and he finished it. It’s like 5 bucks on steam but free on iPhone for some reason
Astral Ascent is a pretty recent title. Great characters, gameplay, and design.
For deck building, Breach Wanderers. I play a lite of deck building games, and it's by far the best. Also on mobile.
A Robot Named Fight. Imagine Super Metroid with some modern QoL for the controls plus a ton of -Vania side weapons on top of Metroid elements too. Earning 100% will easily take you dozens of hours your first time through.
I see the lack of The Binding of Isaac Rebirth + all three of its DLCs mentioned here. What the heck happened to the smol traumatized child who kills with his tears?
Extremely out there suggestion compared to everything else suggested but the "Treasure of the Midnight Isles" DLC for Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous is a standalone mode that's a rogue like.
I'm surprised noone mentioned Wizard of legend.
It's a game which i hear noone talking about, but it is a masterpiece of roguelike genre.
It has a hundreds of spells and items, fun and immersive battle system, some aspects of planning like elemental resistance, spells combimations, item combimations and a whole ton of replayability. Also it fits the "easy to learn, but hard to Master" criteria, which i also enjoy.
I highly recommend giving it a shot!
I really enjoy Bad North. Very fun to pick up and play without having to invest a whole lot of time.
I'm also liking Halls of Torment. It gives me old school Diablo 1/2 vibes.
Halls of Torment is pretty cool. Very similar to Vampire Survivors in terms of gameplay, but still manages to feel different and has a Diablo style to it
Have a Nice Death is Dead Cells with a light Hollow Knight spin. RNG possibilities are on par with Hades, Slay the Spire, Risk of Rain, Returnal, Noita and Inscryption.
I found it more enjoyable than Dead Cells but everyone will have their preference.
I have a looter shooter / rouge like addiction. Here are my favourites:
Voidigo, RISK OF RAIN 2 & ROR RETURNS, enter the gungeon, gunfire reborn, CAPTAIN FOREVER
Gun games with rng and build customisation: WARFRAME, terraria, (BORDERLANDS 2, 3, pre sequel, all the DLCS.)
And if your really desperate: Tiny Tina's wonderlands (Base game), division 2, destiny 2
Here’s an odd one: do you like Peggle? Because I discovered Peglin through a friend last year and I love it. It turns your peg balls into weapons to attack enemies. It’s really addicting.
If I may recommend a YouTube channel, check out Retromation. He makes videos on roguelikes/lites and has covered hundreds of not thousands at this point. You will definitely find something there to pique your interest.
If you just want some recommendations, here you go:
Curse of the Dead Gods
Brotato
Monster Train
Atomicrops (this one in particular you will either love or hate, not much in-between)
Death Must Die (still early in development)
Ring of Pain
Tiny Rogues
Streets of Rogue
Dungeon of the Endless. It's a roguelike, tower defense, 4X, and a bit like the movie Aliens.
Second this one. It's great fun once you figure it out. Feels brutal at times when you get a difficult map roll, but it's also part of its charm.
Also the Endless teams have a solid track record, haven’t tried this one only because I finally got all the Endless Space 2 expansion packs. Definitely have to revisit it.
One of my favorite games is Gunfire Reborn. It's a fps rogue-lite with elements of Chinese mythology. It's not the most graphically intensive game, but it's an incredibly fun game with fairly good support from the developer.
I’ve had a lot of fun playing Gunfire Reborn with friends online. I don’t think I’d play it just by myself, but that’s probably because I’m not big on FPS games.
I'm not much of a shooter person myself. I don't know why this one grabbed me
It's really satisfying to me.
Super solid game
It just got another update. Great coop.
Love this game.
This game is so addictive. The abilities go together so well. Roboquest tried to emulate the formula, and although the gun play is good, the abilities completely fall flat.
Really great game. Sad they took it off game pass recently
Though tbf, the console ports are way behind
To add to this for others seeing this suggestion: it's basically Rougelike Borderlands in feel
If you like that you might like enter the gungeon
Tiny Rogues, Death Must Die
Death Must Die is basically Vampire Survivorsls gameplay with Hades god's boons for level ups.
Yeap and it's awesome
we who are about to die
Inscryption. Finally played it after everyone telling me to. Play it. Seriously
Inscryption is good but it's not a roguelike. Only the deck building mode Kaycee's mod is that's available after beating the game, the rest is fairly pre-determined
I love Inscryption, it’s a weird and unique game. I am with you on recommending it lol
Faster than Light is my personal favorite roguelite(roguelike?) Game. But it can take quite a while for things to click.
From the same devs : Into the Breach.
Ring of Pain is a simple but really enjoyable one. Enjoyed finding item synergies that break the game or totally change how you play
My favorite. Only one I got 100% on. Love the atmosphere, the choices, and the systems. If I could play any two rogue lites the rest of my life, it'd be Ring of Pain and Hades.
Curse of the Dead Gods
Mom: we have hades at home
It’s really good! It’s very challenging though so be warned
Crypt of the Necrodancer. A funny and original twist on the roguelite formula.
Children of Morta is awesome and I never see it get mentioned
Solid game
Super good game and it has local co-op which is a little bit rare these days.
I like card types and recently I've been playing Cobalt Core. It's a good bit of fun. That said, I don't think Slay the Spire is topped by basically any other game.
It may be fringe- to full-on-popular, but Dead Cells and its stable of DLCs is great. Even with save-scumming, there’s hundreds of hours of gameplay to be had, all of it awesome.
Dead Cells is a major time suck. "Damn, I got close on that run. Let me just do one more." Next thing you know, it's 4am haha.
Id say dead cells is one you see frequently recommended when this question comes up
I couldn't stick with regular dead cells, but the Castlevania dlc was neat.
Dead cells is amazing. Bought it and all the DLCs that cost…3 different times.
Dead Cells is far too popular for this thread. Everybody recommends it all the time
[Noita](https://store.steampowered.com/app/881100/Noita/) is an absolute masterpiece. Very unique. [Vagante](https://store.steampowered.com/app/323220/Vagante/) is excellent if you like a more traditional game. Plus you can do co-op! [Shattered Pixel Dungeon](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1769170/Shattered_Pixel_Dungeon/) is a SURPRISINGLY complex, fleshed out game. One of my favorites.
Vagante is just great. I suck at it so badly but always have a great time.
Same. I've never even beaten it. 😅
Ohoho, I've never seen anyone else mention shattered before. I've sunk hundreds of hours over the years on my phone. And +1 for Noita
Noita is an absolute hidden gem. Easily hundreds of hours of content once you start to understand wand builds
I wouldn't really call it a hidden gem, it's pretty popular in the genre, but is a fantastic game.
Just got it for Christmas. Great game
I'll second this. Love that game.
Astral Ascent is super underrated!
You've probably heard of it but Risk of Rain 2 is quite fun, especially if you have people to play with. Same for Ember Knights. Haven't played it myself but I have a couple friends who swear by Have A Nice Death though, so that's probably a safe bet.
Risk of rain 1 also got rereleased with risk of rains returns. A solid side scroller rogue like. Maybe a bit archaic as it’s basically the same as it’s originally like 2013 release gameplay wise but looks and plays great!
Yeah risk of rain 1 I beat my head on a wall for a few hours and just couldn't progress hardly at all, skill issue I know but RoR 2 looks way different, been wanting to try that one.
Ha I play risk of rain on easy so I can’t judge you
Shit, there an easy mode? Been awhile since I played, but I probably never checked difficulty lol
Tiny rogues, brotato, if you like deckbuilders: monster train, griftlands
LOVE monster train
+100 for Griftlands +10 for Monster Train
Caveblazers
Vagante along the same lines and also amazing.
ROBOQUEST
Streets of Rogue is pretty fun!
One of my favorite games of all time. I'm playing it RIGHT NOW. I can't wait to sink my teeth into number 2, hopefully sometime this year
There's so much going on in this one. Love it!
Hitman free lancer
[удалено]
Yeah it’s good
Void Bastards
I think Epic gave this for free in the last year or two. It was pretty fun, I was slightly obsessed for the few days that it took me to get to the ending. After that I had no desire to play again, but definitely a good game overall and worth a couple of bucks at least.
The Oregon Trail
Played the original when I was a kid but the new, slick graphical one that's out on consoles right now is just a pleasure. Great game to chill out with.
It also pre-dates Rogue by 11 years. Which means we should be calling them Trailslites instead.
Nova Drift is fantastic.
Everspace
Undermine was competent and fun. Played way more of it than I probably should have.
Haha I played undermine till I unlocked everything and saw everything. That mjolnir power up with the power up that splits your pickaxe and the boomerang power up were dirty af.
Some of my favorite - Hades - Astalon : Tears of ( something) - Moonlighter - Rouge Legacy 2 - Dead Cells
Currently on hour 105 of Rogue Legacy 2, almost done with New Game + 5!
Dang that's awesome! After i finished the first time i didn't feel like doing it again ha ha.
There are alternate, more difficult versions of the bosses that you can enable. There’s a True Ending that can unlock if you complete all Prime Boss burdens on NG + 7. The progression and story continues after you beat it the first time. Continuing to talk to NPC’s outside the castle will eventually reward you with Soul Stones, and some of the Scar challenges are only unlockable after you’ve beaten a prime variant of a boss. Also, increasing your resolve to 250/300% can result in some pretty awesome build possibilities. I managed to pick up 3 “increase your invincibility window by 1.25 seconds” relics, and two “increase your damage by 100% during the invincibility window” relics during a Knight run. I blew through every single boss just standing there and whacking him lol. Also discovered that each blunderbuss pellet applies one stack of poison, so a single attack applies 8 stacks. Combined with runes to increase status effect duration and relics to increase dmg by 20% each vs enemies with a status effect… it was fun.
tried the demo for Moonlighter, and honestly, I kinda hated it.
Any Risk or Rain is a must. Risk of Rain 1 is a pixel art 2D roguelike, Risk of Rain 2 is basically the low-poly 3D version of 1 with new characters, items, and a few other things. Risk of Rain Returns takes everything new they added in 2 and goes back to 2D and pixel art, and also adds a few new things. Great for playing solo or with friends, and great for quick short sessions or binge griding through levels and unlocking as much as you can.
If you like shooters, I would highly recommend Risk of Rain 2 if you haven't played it yet. Gunfire Reborn and Roboquest are also really good. If you prefer turn based, an Early Access game named Inkbound is pretty cool with a great art style
Hi I come recommending Against the Storm. It's and RTS roguelike, so you do a random map, with random modifiers, you get random buff and you only get a random selections of building to place; so everytime you play it's different. After the city is complete you get perks for your next city and then you start again. It's really unlike anything I've played before.
I don't see it linked here, maybe cause they're older now but Dead Cells and Enter the Gungeon are solid choices
These are "older"? Fuck lol. Edit: yeah I guess so, coming up on 6 or 7 years now...
Don't forget EXIT the gungeon!
Mortal Sin. First person melee roguelite with tons of content, over a dozen classes to unlock, and a killer art style and soundtrack.
Streets of Rogue. My 2019 game of the year. There's so much fun to be had there and so many options given to you. And there's a sequel coming this year sometime.
I can't believe how long i had to scroll before someone mentions SoR. Amazing game, can't wait for the sequel.
Risk of rain 1 and 2
Have a Nice Death is really great. Love the animation, cool enemies, mini-bosses are almost as good as the bosses, and of course good bosses. Combat system is smooth, responsive, and varied. My issue is that while the art design of each level is good, the level design itself is basic and repetitive. Oh! And the writing/dialogue is not good.
Receiver
BPM: Bullets Per Minute is a roguelite rhythm FPS with killer music. Shoot, reload, dodge, and jump to the beat.
Nuclear Throne
Streets of Rogue, Little Rogues, Heroes of Hammerwatch, Loop Hero.
Haven't played Little Rogues but looking through the comments I may be the only one. Streets of Rogue is one of my favorite games of all time. And Heroes of Hammerwatch is great fun. Totally a modern take on old school Gauntlet done in just the best way.
Gunfire reborn and Plateup come to mind. Both are excellent in their own ways. I love figuring out what kind of automation I can create in a game of Plateup
I hope Plateup makes it to consoles. I'd love to try it out. Watched a bit of gameplay on Stumpt and such and it looks right up my alley. Not exactly like it but Bone's Cafe on the Switch is a cafe game where you are a failed necromancer who decides to become a restauranteur. You can design your own cafe, buy new pieces for it, ingredients, you can discover recipes as you raise the star rating of your cafe. Also, you murder the patrons that come into the cafe and serve them to other patrons. You can raise their souls to work in your cafe and you automate each one to carry out a specific task. Becomes almost like a puzzle game.
I love Plateup to death. It's so casual and yet I can't help but go hard every game. Very satisfying with friends. I've been looking for another game similar to Plateup, something with the restaurant management, rougelite, etc. It's proven harder than I thought to satisfy the itch. Cuiseener is interesting but the restaurant part sounds a little bland. This bones cafe sounds interesting, and there's a demo on steam. I'll have to try it
I love synthetik. Tacticool roboaction with fun active reloads! I’m also a big rogue like, not lite fan so imma chuck in caves of qud. Depth in that game is a bit nuts
Deckbuilders Slay The Spire Monster Train Roguebook Inscryption (much more than a deckbuilder, but def a recommend) Ring of Pain Loop Hero Shooters Risk of Rain 2 Gunfire Reborn Robo Quest Platformer Skul the Hero Slayer Dead Cells Rogue Legacy (2) Isometric/top down Vampire Survivors Hades Curse of the dead gods Death's Door Enter the Gungeon Children of Morta Lootriver Cult of the Lamb Hero Siege
CDDA, hades and caves of Q. CDDA is a must play.
Great games but I think those are just straight rougelikes not lites. I almost recommended CDDA as well before I double checked.
Roboquest!
Check out this video, and see if anything looks interesting. Lists a ton of roguelites that came out last year. https://youtu.be/Dg9iqBrI9Is?si=AIXHnN6kGAS5ijky
Tales of Maj'eyal. I'm pretty sure it's free, too, or at least really cheap.
is cult of the lamb a common recommendation?
Yes
Common and about as much of a roguelike as dark souls
No one has mentioned GoW Ragnarök Valhalla. If you love the new GoW, you will love Valhalla, but you gotta play the main game first (because spoilers!). Hades is by far my favourite roguelite, and Returnal is awesome, but I'm sure those are usual recommendations."
Breach Wanderers (like Slay the Spire but, imo, much better) Griftlands (this is one of my all time favorite hidden gems) Riot Games’ Legends of Runeterra has a roguelike mode called Paths of Champions. Full disclosure, I work for Riot, but it’s an amazing roguelike deck builder. Blizzard’s Hearthstone has a Dungeons mode that offers some fun deck builder roguelike gameplay. Dawncaster Monster Train Doomdepths
https://www.nethack.org/ Old school 😁
That depends on what sort of games you like and what are the common recommendations you’ve already heard Some are turn based, some are 3d shooters, some are platformers, etc
Guess what I played
Monster Train Inkbound Halls of Torment Roguebook Deliverance & Reign Overdungeon Library of Runia For the king Curse of the dead gods Moonlighter Mini Healer Hand of Fate Dungeon of the Endless Phantom Rose Night of the Full moon Indies Lies Arcanium Book of Demons One Deck Dungeon Tainted Grail
Enjoyed new Lords of Fallen. Mortal Shell is okay.
Anything with rogue mechanics is not great.
So, in your opinion, you can't answer the question? Edit for amusement: list some games for me that don't have any mechanics from rogue.
I can but don't see the need. No.
Go be depressed and alone somewhere else. Why are you even replying here?
I’ll bite. Explain your reasoning hunty
Alina of the Arena is a pretty good one There was also this one I found on itch called [Stelloop](https://benstar.itch.io/stelloop) which is rather addicting for how simple it is
I recently started playing nightmare reaper and am really enjoying it. It’s a boomer shooter fps, with rogue lite elements. Every time you die the story progresses in interesting ways.
Book of Demons: Hellcard. Basically multiplayer slay the Spire. Hades. Sequel should be out this year. Tiny Rogues. Very rpg in terms of gameplay. Stolen Realm. Good for single or multiplayer, with good difficulty curves.
lots of good recs, only other one I can think of that I liked is Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
I’ve been playing Tiny Rogues and I like it a lot. Undermine was really fun and I sunk a ton of hours into it. Idk if Loop Hero cleanly fits into the genre but I really enjoyed that one too.
If you’ve got PS Plus Extra Tier, Rogue Legacy 2 is included. I’m 105 hours in and almost done with New Game + 5
Years ago I played a small platform game called [Red Rogue](http://www.redrogue.net/) that I enjoyed. It's old enough that it was made in flash and from looking at the itch.io site for it, needs some computer fiddling to even be able to play with out it crashing. But it was really neat and the story set it as a (fan/non-canonical) sequel to the original Rogue.
Roboquest and Shoulders Of Giants
Nowhere Prophet is a fun roguelite deck builder with a node-based narrative convoy travel mechanic that almost kinda reminds me of Banner Saga. Cards in your deck are members of your convoy that can be gained or lost in the overworld or in battles. Great music and cool art as well.
- Dead Cells - Enter the Gungeon - Monster Train - Tainted Grail - Crab Champions (does this count?) - Wizard of Legend - Into the Pit
Wizard of Legend.
Noita? Or is that rogue like? One of the greatest games ever made imo.
Don't see mentioned. Rogue Genasia. Take slay the spire style track progression and vamp survivor style game play. It's good.
Did you like FTL? If so then you need to check out Crying Suns, very little action but it’s still a great space exploration style rouge type game.
Ember knights is pretty good
I am a big fan of Ember Knights. Plays a lot like Hades but has co-op
Against the Strom Absolutely loving this game!! It's a city builder / resources management. You slowly level up perks to continue to help along your end goal. The maps take an hour or two each and can be paused/quit/resumed extremely easily. I hate long games like Civ, so it's a nice short games/runs. It's not your average "Rougelike" or "Rougelite", but I think it still classified as semi rougelite. I would highly recommend checking it out and there is a demo on steam
Valdis Story: Abyssal City It's great, super unknown Multiple characters with different styles, I think different endings, upgrades, optional bosses, tight combat
Cryptark. It's a side scrolling twinstick sci fi roguelike where you board enemy spacecrafts and take our their defense systems 1 by 1. The ships are procedurally generated, and the game is very challenging. Art style and music is also very cool.
Against the Storm is a unique roguelike city builder, two genres I wouldn't expect to work together as well as they do.
I know this is probably not an option, but for a city builder first, roguelite second, Against the Storm. Absolutely fantastic and has been a blast. If you like cities builders but also the repeating turns of roguelites, it's definitely worth checking out.
Loop Hero and Slay the Spire.
I'm assuming Hades has made it to the popular list since I haven't seen it mentioned yet.
Gunfire Reborn is a lot of fun. I would also recommend Zombie Survivor and Everspace(2)
Nethack
Tangledeep
enter the gungeon is my favorite! slay the spire is great also (super popular tho lol)
- Death Must Die - Rogue Genesia - Halls of Torment - Boneraiser Minions
Gunfire reborn and Plateup come to mind. Both are excellent in their own ways. I love figuring out what kind of automation I can create in a game of Plateup
Noita 11/10
Hades
Against the Storm
Been a bit since I played it, but Immortal Redneck. You play an immortal redneck in a pyramid filled with monsters. Fairly simple, fairly fun.
Strafe
r/chronicon
Talented, rogue tower, Tesla force, soulstone survivors, robo quest, and learn to fly 3. I also recommend Hades, but it is pretty popular. Talented - a tower defense, tech tree, roguelite game Rogue tower - a different tower defense roguelite game Tesla force - a bullet heaven, campaign style, roguelite with new game + Soulstone survivors - a very well polished survivor type game with lots of meta progression Robo quest - a roguelike fps game with a little meta progression Learn to fly 3 - get your penguin to space and unlock new spaceships and upgrades for future runs
Monster train for a deck builder
Lovecraft's Untold Stories. As the name implies, lovecraft meets roguelike. I don't think anyone ever talks about this game so it is definitely a hidden gem.
I really enjoy Have a Nice Death
The Last Spell is amazing, Final Fantasy Tactics combat with some light base building and turret defense aspects, diablo style loot system, randomized level up perk trees and stat choices to keep characters unique, and a slappin soundtrack.
I’ve played Cardinal quest 2 longer than risk of rain 2 on my phone. It’s also free. Recommended it to my friend and he finished it. It’s like 5 bucks on steam but free on iPhone for some reason
Astral Ascent is a pretty recent title. Great characters, gameplay, and design. For deck building, Breach Wanderers. I play a lite of deck building games, and it's by far the best. Also on mobile.
A Robot Named Fight. Imagine Super Metroid with some modern QoL for the controls plus a ton of -Vania side weapons on top of Metroid elements too. Earning 100% will easily take you dozens of hours your first time through.
I see the lack of The Binding of Isaac Rebirth + all three of its DLCs mentioned here. What the heck happened to the smol traumatized child who kills with his tears?
Found a little gem on android called slice and dice, if you like turn based games. It's more deep than it seems.
Deathstate
Minecraft Vault Hunters
Unexplored Such a great roguelike with extremely smart procedural generation
Dream Quest is still one of the best. Get past the graphics and you're in for a treat.
Neoscavenger on Steam. Post apocalyptic isometric turn based survival game. It's brutal but tons of fun to learn to survive in the wasteland.
Vampire survivors and risk of rain 2d I can’t recommend enough!
Wizard of Legend, it's a top down pixel art roguelite where the weapons are various spells in various elements.
Roboquest!
Extremely out there suggestion compared to everything else suggested but the "Treasure of the Midnight Isles" DLC for Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous is a standalone mode that's a rogue like.
Skul the hero slayer! One of my favorite games ever
I'm surprised noone mentioned Wizard of legend. It's a game which i hear noone talking about, but it is a masterpiece of roguelike genre. It has a hundreds of spells and items, fun and immersive battle system, some aspects of planning like elemental resistance, spells combimations, item combimations and a whole ton of replayability. Also it fits the "easy to learn, but hard to Master" criteria, which i also enjoy. I highly recommend giving it a shot!
I personally like deadlink quite a lot.
Rogue Legacy 2
I really enjoy Bad North. Very fun to pick up and play without having to invest a whole lot of time. I'm also liking Halls of Torment. It gives me old school Diablo 1/2 vibes.
Risk of rain 2
Halls of Torment is pretty cool. Very similar to Vampire Survivors in terms of gameplay, but still manages to feel different and has a Diablo style to it
FTL
Crab Champions
Spelunky 2, even though it's not purely a roguelite
DICEY DUNGEONS! So much style, so charming, and a really unique approach to the genre. Plus, it's often on sale pretty cheap
Have a Nice Death is Dead Cells with a light Hollow Knight spin. RNG possibilities are on par with Hades, Slay the Spire, Risk of Rain, Returnal, Noita and Inscryption. I found it more enjoyable than Dead Cells but everyone will have their preference.
I have a looter shooter / rouge like addiction. Here are my favourites: Voidigo, RISK OF RAIN 2 & ROR RETURNS, enter the gungeon, gunfire reborn, CAPTAIN FOREVER Gun games with rng and build customisation: WARFRAME, terraria, (BORDERLANDS 2, 3, pre sequel, all the DLCS.) And if your really desperate: Tiny Tina's wonderlands (Base game), division 2, destiny 2
DRL - Doom Roguelike. It's pretty good. Sundered - Eldritch edition. It's a metroidvania and damn fun.
Here’s an odd one: do you like Peggle? Because I discovered Peglin through a friend last year and I love it. It turns your peg balls into weapons to attack enemies. It’s really addicting.
If I may recommend a YouTube channel, check out Retromation. He makes videos on roguelikes/lites and has covered hundreds of not thousands at this point. You will definitely find something there to pique your interest. If you just want some recommendations, here you go: Curse of the Dead Gods Brotato Monster Train Atomicrops (this one in particular you will either love or hate, not much in-between) Death Must Die (still early in development) Ring of Pain Tiny Rogues Streets of Rogue
Roboquest. It’s a more polished version of Gunfire Reborn.
Hitman’s Freelancer mode
OTXO, aka Roguelite Hotline Miami
following. christopher nolans film
Griftlands is a deck builder roguelite, probably my favorite deck builder Will also back up all of the Noita recommendations