Quotes about “roguelike genre”
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Let's Look At： Famaze! [PC⧸Windows]
- 10.42 there's a little bit of a sub genre within the roguelike or procedural death labyrinth or roguelite, whatever you want to call it, community called the lunch break roguelike. and this is a little bit like that, a little bit like desktop dungeons, for example. it's a simplistic, minimalistic game with some roguelike elements, but it's also a little bit more puzzly than your average roguelike ish game now. you know, this is not the binding of isaac, this is not spelunky, this is not ftl, and Search ↗
When you pre-move chat... (Cloverpit)
- 1424.360 slop is not a bad thing anymore. slop is just a word you use to indicate that something is part of a genre. it's basically, slop is a roguelike item. if you append it to the end of a word, it makes the previous word a genre. tropes are shared between multiple things that have the word before the slop. what's interesting about clover pit is it's a combination chip slop and l slop. that doesn't happen all that often. now let me see some fucking batteries. you're scamming me. now this is just a joke. Search ↗
It was made for me？ (Golfie #ad)
- 0.00 wake up honey, a combination heretofore considered unmakeable in the world of gaming has now come out. it was made for me, just look at the subtitle, it's golfy, a roguelike deck building mini golf game. i've played a lot of all three of the genre, i should be able to fit right in pretty easily. Search ↗
Let's Look At： Catacomb Kids!
- 1783.40 arrow keys and the keyboard for platformers. i just, i can't do it. i know there's a lot of people out there that play like, i want to be the guy and other stuff like that that do master keyboard controls like that. i need the controller. i'm an old man, can't learn any new tricks. but apart from that, even if you're not going to pick it up right now, which is maybe the safest choice, you should at least have this on your radar for when it actually comes out and as it gets further along in development. it's a very interesting game, novel ish anyway, approach to the roguelike genre by kind of Search ↗
Let's Look At： Growing Pains!
- 802.22 out there. i mean, there's so many of them that i either... i love platformers. i probably even have a little bit of a bias towards indie 2d platformers, which i would be smart to, you know, warn you about in terms of full disclosure. it's probably my favorite genre like this and as you might expect, roguelike ish type games are probably my favorite genre. so it's not hard for me to invest a lot of hours into them, depending on their length of course, and Search ↗
Let's Look At： Risk of Rain (Free!) [PC]
- 1466.22 free roguelike which is something that is kind of endemic to the genre i guess in a good way. check my video description there will be a link to the free version of risk of rain and stay tuned you know i might do more content on this game as we get a little bit closer to its release or when the kickstarter starts or when the beta starts. you know i want to say that it seems kind of feature barren right now but to be honest with you in an hour and a half two hours of play Search ↗
dont joke about insurance - Bits and Banter [06⧸09⧸2025]
- 4002.680 at what point do we have too many roguelike deck builders? why does nobody ever ask that question about third person action games? which literally like 98% of prestige aaa games are like dude with a gun, dude with a sword, lady with a gun, lady with a sword. one year they mix it up and gave everybody a bow and an arrow and that's it. they definitely do. no, nobody says that. everyone goes, no, no, no, they're different. now they have stolen, now they have pathos in them. what if i told you the genre is just a way to convey either mechanics, a story, an emotion, a feeling, et cetera, et cetera. Search ↗
why buy a mattress anywhere else - Bits and Banter [02/20/2024]
It's a bit of a cosmic gumbo of roguelite influences (Ember Knights #ad)
- 4381.74 isaac might not have a ton of systems that like get pilfered by subsequent games in the genre, but the fact that the genre is popular, a lot of that it goes back to isaac, you know? i think at least. okay, we have 10% crit chance. let's increase our crit damage by 50%. also rogue? no, not also rogue. i'm sorry to burst your bubble. i'm that guy. i'm the roguelike guy that... i'm not gonna say i don't respect rogue. Search ↗