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Getting into DCSS a lot recently. Still just running Minotaur Berserker with the furthest I've made it being the 10th floor aha.

Regardless, really enjoying it and wondering if others have any other recommendations. I tried ToME4 and just felt overwhelmed and wasn't enjoying myself too much.

Have my eyes of Caves of Qud as well. Love the more "literary" aspect to it (even though I know it's often nonsense), and the atmosphere/setting. Seems to be highly regarded overall though. Wondering if I should buy it and play alongside DCSS.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I like rogue-lites a bit more, so thethese games may or may not fit your interests.

  • Permadeath mode in No Man's Sky
  • Darkest Dungeon
  • Everspace 1
  • Ziggurat
  • Eldritch
  • Heavy Bullets
  • Teleglitch
  • Legend of Grimrock on Ultra Ironman difficulty
  • Legend of Grimrock 2 with roguelike mod
  • Dark Souls
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Skul: the hero slayer is fantastic, there is a ridiculous amount of build variety and the gameplay is great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Inscryption is pretty great. It's like a horror card game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Darkest Dungeon is a game I keep coming back to. Long story short, it's a roguelike where you send a group of four heroes into a dungeon and you fight lovecraftian horrors there. It's also really well narrated!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is a little bit of a deep cut, but the roguelike add-on to Remnant From the Ashes honestly slaps if you enjoy the core gameplay loop. (The pitch is "Dark Souls with guns," which is like 70% accurate.) High quality 3rd person gunplay, awesome abilities, fun enemies, wacky builds, beautiful maps.

Darkest Dungeon is also great if you like oppressive horror vibes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

+1 for Golden Light. Game has an unsettling yet very funny vibe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Everspace 1 and 2 are both solid games if you like space exploration and shooting!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here are some smaller ones that I like that haven't been mentioned yet.

Crypt of the Necrodancer is a rythm based dungeon crawler in which you complete levels before the song runs out. Everything you do has to be on beat, like moving, attacking and using items. It's one of my favorite games and it even has working online multiplayer (altough that is only available through a DLC).

BPM: Bullets Per Minute is another rythm based dungeon crawler (can you tell that I love rythm games?) in form of a FPS. You explore rooms to kill enemies, get equipment and eventually kill that level's boss until you meet the final boss of the game. Similarly to Crypt, shooting, reloading and using abilities has to be done on beat (moving itself is not limited though).

Dead Estate is a pretty difficult isometric shooter (similar to Binding of Isaac). Being another dungeon crawler you work yourself through rooms, collecting items, upgrades and swapping weapons as you go, eventually defeating the floor's boss and moving up the floors until you reach the top. While there is no forced time limit, you do want to move fast, especially on higher difficulties.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Necrodancer is absolutely my jam - it's my most-played game on Steam that isn't a long-lived multiplayer game. At one point I had a top-200 speedrun time for Cadence, but I'm out of practice now. Still need to finish an all-zones run, though...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm actually not sure if this fully counts as a roguelike (because I'm not really super familiar with the genre), but I started Returnal on PC yesterday and it already seems to be a pretty darn good game only after 30 minutes of play time. I am looking forward to putting more time into it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I really liked it at first, but after 10 or so runs, it started getting a bit stale. It's a really well done game, but the level gen gets limiting pretty quickly and I wasn't a fan of half of the weapons.

Definitely still worth checking out, and the PC version ran pretty well for me.

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