Roguelike Games

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A place to discuss both traditional Roguelikes and Roguelite games. Classic ASCII art RPG with perma-death? Roguelite platformer with meta-progression? They are all welcome here.

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Moonlighter dev's next haunt is ReVamp, a tower defence roguelike where Dracula is cursed to defend his castle forever (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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Won't somebody give this guy a break?

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Slay the Spire 2 becomes the biggest roguelike deck-builder on Steam ever (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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Mega Crit have a massive success on their hands with the Early Access release of Slay the Spire 2, smashing records across the Steam store.

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The makers of idle farming sensation Rusty's Retirement have announced a new game, and this one's taking over your whole screen (www.pcgamer.com)
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Mister Morris Games have been anything but idle.

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And so, another excellent roguelike claims a chunk of my limited life: no wonder this cute Spore-like game is one of the biggest in Steam Next Fest, with 99% positive reviews (www.gamesradar.com)
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Everything is Crab, including me

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Battling castles on wheels? Wanderburg might be my new favourite thing (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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Wanderburg is nuts. A roguelike where you build up a castle on wheels (or legs) and battle through various locations and it instantly hooked me.

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Imagine if politics were full of monsters! Haha, no, I mean fun monsters like vampires, orcs, and goblins who use cards to hurl insults and smears at each other (www.pcgamer.com)
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Fight your way to the top of the government in card-based roguelike Prime Monster.

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Bend the market to your will in the roguelike Insider Trading (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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Insider Trading is a roguelike deckbuilder where you bend the market to your will. Stack synergies, trigger price swings, and trade wisely.

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Thoroughly strange dungeon crawler Pluto is all about constructing spells and using your fingers (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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With a pretty creepy looking style, the dungeon crawler Pluto is all about experimentation as you construct spells and wiggle your fingers.

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"Only the nerdiest of the nerds would tolerate that stuff": Mewgenics dev says before Spelunky and The Binding of Isaac, roguelikes were the reserve of hardcore fans (www.gamesradar.com)
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It was so cool that you could have an endlessly replayable game like that

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Throw pool, dice and stickers into a blender and you get STICKER/BALL, a roguelike that relishes in chaos (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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Who doesn't love collecting stickers?

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VHS-veiled Huntdown: Overtime, a retro gangland roguelite run and gunner, arrives in early access this year (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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Turns out the best way to succeed in this new mech vs kaiju roguelike deckbuilder is just to jump up and down on your enemies' heads like a 200 ton Mario (www.pcgamer.com)
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Roguelike fatigue is real, but I can make an exception for [DreadBound, an] upcoming project that remixes some of my favorite stealth games at 90 mph (www.pcgamer.com)
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Check out the demo for CiniCross if you enjoy roguelikes and nonogram styled puzzles (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[Talystro, a] roguelike deckbuilder may look like edutainment, but its maths-based battles are surprisingly tense and strategic (www.pcgamer.com)
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Command your crew and roll the dice in the tactical roguelike DeckWrecking Pirates (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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Texplore, a mining action-roguelike where you dig deep into a collapsing Earth, fight hostile creatures, released in early access on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
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Ace of Space, a roguelike deckbuilder blending strategic card play with autobattling mechanics, set on a galactic quest to defeat a cosmic entity, released on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
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This hybrid of deckbuilder and soulslike is the most gloriously vicious game of 2025 (www.pcgamer.com)
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Luxman Moonlit Market brings 'Balatro-inspired power-up management' to strategic tile-placement roguelikes (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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NetHack.com now has an RSS feed (www.nethack.org)
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Please send help. I can’t stop playing these roguelikes. (arstechnica.com)
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Slay the Spire 2 devs literally flipped a coin to decide between a new game or a sequel to their genre-defining roguelike deckbuilder: "The rest is history" (www.gamesradar.com)
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I never knew how relaxing a roguelike deckbuilder could be before I played Dog Witch (www.pcgamer.com)
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Why are there so many bloody roguelikes or roguelites, and what really makes a game roguish? (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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