#RogueLike

An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons filled with dangerous monsters in a quest to find the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot.

"I've had maybe 250 roguelike deckbuilders in the last 12 months", says Krafton exec Victor Lee, who advises devs to be cautious of jumping on trends.

Roguelikes don’t die. They fork, mutate, get argued over, rewritten, abandoned, and revived again. Sometimes all at once.

From Rockpapershotgun RSS Feed: 2K lay off staff at Project Ethos while touting "a renewed direction and vision" for their by-the-numbers hero shooter

Dodge Roll's co-founder believes the 'slot machine' aspect of Balatro and Vampire Survivors has led to a shift in the design of roguelikes

From Rockpapershotgun RSS Feed: Crymelight is a Hades-esque roguelike that sends the white rabbit chasing Alice to hell to face her sins and fight for her freedom

What have you been playing this week? Our regular article where we all - you and us - have a big chat about it.

From Rockpapershotgun RSS Feed: Arcade roguelike KAZ will probably break my arrows keys, and yet here I am wanting to play another round

From Rockpapershotgun RSS Feed: "Mythology, by its nature, is told and retold": Hades 2 dev on changing its controversial ending

From Rockpapershotgun RSS Feed: Infamous Keepers is a reverse dungeon crawler where you have to survive after mass layoffs and oh no is this a games industry metaphor

From Rockpapershotgun RSS Feed: Hades 2's second post-launch patch adds in more prophecy conclusions and flirtier friends