Roguelike MidBoss Lets Players Celebrate Pride As They Become A Dungeon Boss

MidBoss, the challenging roguelike where you help a lowly imp possess fallen foes, taking their powers until you’re strong enough to become the final boss, has begun to do some neat in-game events, the first of which aims to let you show a little LGBT Pride with its death cards for a limited time. MidBoss‘ […]

Roguelike Shooter IDracula: Genesis Pits Your High-Tech Weaponry Against The Forces Of Evil

In the post apocalypse of iDracula: Genesis, it’s not roaming bandits, devastating disease, or the undead you have to worry about. Actually, those might be preferable when the world is a hellscape where the laws of physics have been torn asunder and demons, killer machines, and other monsters lurk around every corner. Thankfully in this […]

Bite-Sized Roguelike Realm Of The Ghost King Shuffles Towards Release

I do love me a good roguelike, but these things are quite the time sink. Level up your puny little hero, explore vast labyrinths, amass riches – that stuff usually takes a considerable amount of time. But fret not, Realm of the Ghost King respects your time, offering bite-sized sessions that will easily fit into […]

The Line – A Roguelike Dungeon Crawler Of Strange Creatures & Visions

The Line is about trying to stand out in a long line for resettlement, somewhat like mixing waiting at the DMV with turn-based battles with the other shmucks waiting alongside you. Except the other people sometimes mutate in very unsettling ways, and the line leads to a resettlement project that seems to have something very […]

The Surrounding Darkness Hides Dangers In Roguelike Shooter Black Mist

Black Mist puts players inside a claustrophobic darkness, with shadows creeping in close. They can light their way and unveil the dangers lurking in the shadows using a shot from their gun, but each bullet draws from the same power as their life force, costing health with each blast. This makes every decision to shoot […]

Good Job! Tangledeep Is A Classy Roguelike

Developer Impact Gameworks’ first title has you setting out into the unknown in order to escape your dull life underground. Enter the mysterious labyrinth known as Tangledeep, follow great adventurers, and make your way to the surface – all in classic roguelike fashion, but with lovely 16-bit pixel art, an amazing soundtrack, and some quality […]

Body-Hopping Roguelike MidBoss Lets You Possess Your Way Up The Food Chain

Kitsune Games’ MidBoss is a traditional roguelike with a twist: possess your fallen foes. You start out as a lowly imp, the weakest of all dungeon dwellers, but nobody wants to be a minion, right? So you body-hop your way through the dungeon, growing in power and size, until you can face the endboss – […]

Streets Of Rogue Is A Roguelike You Can Talk, Bribe, Or Smash Your Way Through

I thought I was done with roguelikes, but Streets of Rogue pulled me back in. The game sprinkles gobs of Deus Ex DNA into the mix, resulting in a series of procedurally generated sandboxes where just about anything can happen. It’s fantastic. Streets of Rogue takes the top-down roguelike antics of games like Binding of […]

Build Your Arsenal With Every Turn In Minimalist Roguelike Morphblade

Premiering with Humble Monthly’s latest bundle, Morphblade is the newest game from Gunpoint developer Tom Francis. But while Gunpoint was all about wall climbing, window smashing, and Rube Goldberg-esque hacking chains, Morphblade is a much more subdued compact game, a roguelike distilled to the peer strategy of movement and positioning. Each move expands the board, […]