Shazbot! It’s FPS meathead time for looking at Deadzone: Rogue. A game which started as an extraction shooter set in the Starsiege: Tribes universe, the developers made a hard pivot to a roguelite after the live service experiment failed. Join our protagonist with a rock tumbler for a voice to […]

Goated prize from the UFO 50 cherry rush charity stream! Over $16k raised for Partners In Health, 3x their original goal. UFO 50 is an amazing game (with some amazing roguelikes to stay tuned for in the podcast) and the cherry rush stream last month […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Me pacing around the office uncontrollably looking at the clock as to when I can safely head home to “beat the traffic” A very merry Hades 2 release date to all who celebrate! https://youtu.be/-SnaCUsUF3E #hades2 #roguelike #gaming #nintendoswitch #roguelite #indiegame #indiedev #steam #SteamDeck

Saros is the spiritual successor to Housemarque's amazing roguelite Returnal and I'm just praying that it comes to PC faster than Returnal did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtCS5tuvCKs #saros #ps5 #stateofplay #gaming #returnal

4X games can be roguey… right? This week we tackle the solo dev hobby project by a Danish psychologist with Hero’s Hour! A love letter to the Heroes of Might and Magic series, this one is fast, tactical, and features bright, colorful graphics that would make the SNES proud. Come for the heroes […]

Great video on how roguelike/lite genres bleed into themselves and other games of varying similarity. https://youtu.be/HaPRpMLHcYs #roguelike #roguelite #gaming #genre

OH: “The RNG Giveth, the RNG Taketh. Sometimes, the RNG Pointeth and Laugheth.” #umamusume #roguelike

👁️Workin hard or hardly workin? The podcast glares at this weeks title of The King is Watching: a town building auto battler roguelite where your lazy workers only do their thing when you’re watching them. Great art and sound with an interesting mechanic, bosses everywhere can relate about […]

@roguelike_con Just had a great preview event stream for their main show later in October. Come watch @jonperry, Ezra Szanton, and @ampepers talk about cool stuff in roguelike game design! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cirv4UzNTx8 #roguelikecelebration #roguelike #roguelike_con #gamedev […]

60 hours straight of NetHack streaming begins now! https://nethackathon.org/ #nethack #roguelike #opensource #indiedev #ascii #dnd #indiegame #shareware #retrogaming

Second is @effortgames.ca, who are showing off Stardust Frontier, a super cool co-op roguelike party game. 4 players control a mech with their phones and try to make it through the map by playing minigames to boost their attacks. Super cool stuff! store.steampowered.com/app/3685050/...

Amazing day at PAX West this year. Lots of great interviews, lots of great games played. Every time I always leave wanting more. Someone even recognized my #roguelikecelebration shirt! Shout out to the devs of Arcane Eats 🍳🧙‍♂️🧙‍♀️ #paxwest #gaming #seattle #convention

Don’t give up, skeleton! Elden Ring meets roguelike design with the fast paced, coop-first release of Nightreign this week for the podcast. Almost as if FromSoftware spied on my game design dreams, Nightreign takes a stark departure from previous Souls-style games with nonstop boss battles and […]

Souls games in a nutshell #nightreign #eldenring #gaming #steam #playstation #xbox #roguelike #roguelite

Elden Ring Nightreign runs pretty well on the steam deck. 30fps doesn’t feel horrible, but the onboard fan is fighting for its life. Likely 1 or 2 expeditions’s worth of time on a full charge. Still amazed that this is even a thing! #Nightreign […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

2025 Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work - Caves of Qud Joining previous winners Hades and Baldur's Gate 3, Qud continues its well-deserved collection of high tier relics. The Hugo livestream is down now, so I'll just post the speech by @ptychomancer for winning the IGF Excellence In […]

The journey of a roguelike: DoomRL released as shareware in 2003 by @epyon and bullied by Zenimax lawyers. A 3D, gorgeous remake released on Steam in 2021 called Jupiter Hell gave a fresh pass on accessibility and mechanics. 2025 and a demake of Jupiter Hell is released using an updated engine […]

A terrible chill runs up your spine! It’s Spelunky time! Diving deep into possibly THE most impactful roguelike game of all time for the genre, we talk about blistering difficulty, doing more with less, and how Indiana Jones’ whip could use an upgrade or two […]

Caves of Qud coming to the Switch! This is not a drill! #cavesofqud #nintendoswitch #roguelike #gaming #steam #SteamDeck #indiegame #indiedev

🎵 Toss a coin to your peasants! 🎵 This week we ride forth on a wheezy steed to talk about Kingdom: New Lands. The hit commercial sequel to an already hit flash game designed to study horse running animations. The movement is one-dimensional, but the strategy is anything but! […]

Sometimes games are titled too well for me to play them back-to-back without raising questions on my friends list #roguelike #gaming #steam #heiscoming #thekingiswatching #indiedev #indiegame #roguelite

The best of roguelike/lite music returns! Featuring tunes from Slay the Spire, Roboquest, Tangledeep, and of course, Toejam & Earl, we're covering the wide span of roguedom's musical history. And yes there will be Finnish tribal chanting music with mouth harps. What kind of podcast do you think […]

Audio editing special game music episodes is always a lengthy process, but the end result is always great fun. #audacity #podcast #editing #production #gamemusic #roguelike #roguelite

An interesting article about how blind people can play classic text-rendered #roguelike games #retrodev #retrogaming #retrocomputing #gamedev

Roguelike genre wars in a nutshell 😭 #roguelike #roguelite #gaming #genre #familyguy

Don't you know the Dewey Decimal system? This week is Vellum: the third-person literary hack-and-slash roguelite with more puns to shake a Mont Blanc at! Come for the wild gameplay decisions, stay for the increasingly unhinged references to Finnegan's Wake […]

Great 30 min review of the classic game NetHack https://youtu.be/fD4iVonPFl8 #nethack #roguelike #gaming #dnd #indiedev #indiegame #opensource #procgen #ascii

Soon…. #steam #sale #SteamDeck #gaming #indiegame #indiedev

Caves of Qud never ceases to deliver on legendary creature names #cavesofqud #roguelike #gaming #procgen #indiedev #indiegame #steam #SteamDeck

Ever wondered what it's like to be that pro at Smash Brothers who would dunk on all the neighborhood kids? Spiritfall is your answer! An excellent mashup of action-platforming, charming art, toe-tapping tunes, and roguelite design - build some spell synergies from saintly spirits to stop the […]

Deep cut from Roblox lol #nethack #roguelike #roblox #gaming #retrocomputing

Can these game announcement streams stop happening while I’m still pretending to be at work? #SummerGamesFest #thegameawards #gaming #steam #playstation #xbox #nintendoswitch

This is your brain on roguelikes #slaythespire #roguelike #gaming #steam #nintendoswitch #playstation #xbox #SteamDeck #roguelite

Yo, listen up here's a story About a little guy That lives in a blue world trying to inherit his grand uncles wacky re-arranging mansion! This week we fire up Blue Prince and rave about innovation while ranting about high IQ brain teasers that two brains are better at solving than just one […]

What my note taking process has been like for Blue Prince so far #blueprince #roguelite #gaming #roguelike #puzzles #boardgame #playstation #xbox

A very merry Elden Ring Nightreign launch day (night?) to those who celebrate https://youtu.be/Ot6j_qqYQaM Still baffled and amazed that Fromsoft put out a roguelite game lol. More studios need to take weird risks like this! #nightreign #eldenring #roguelite #gaming #steam #xbox #playstation […]

Blue Prince is a nice...relaxing game all right 😭 #blueprince #roguelike #gaming #steam #roguelite #SteamDeck #boardgame #indiegame

StarVaders is deck-building meets grid-based tactics and it's basically perfect #StarVaders #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck

Double-feature day! This week we cover a student project deckbuilding game from HTL Rennweg in Vienna as well as an Estonian nightclub violence simulator. https://grogpod.zone/2025-05-21-buckshot/ #roguelike #podcast #roguelite #gaming #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #steam #SteamDeck […]

MFW my podcast that 7 people and my cat listen to is unaffected by the spotify updates displaying public play numbers over 50k #podcast #spotify #thesimpsons

Hear this! O pilgrim... a podcast episode on one of the highest rated traditional roguelikes ever: Path of Achra! Bathing in Babylonian blood mythology, and epic procgen poetry, walk The Path filled with poison snakes, hulking golems, hell mouths, flame drakes, and star-forged nightmare jewels […]

Standard gameplay from Caves of Qud #cavesofqud #roguelike #gaming #steam #indiegame #indiedev #vaping

Hard to state just how pumped I am for a FromSoft roguelite game \\[T]/ #eldenring #nightreign #roguelite #gaming #steam #roguelike #fromsoftware #playstation #xbox

The cozy space exploration roguelike Approaching Infinity finally hits 1.0 today! Been following the development by @ApproachingInfinity for a long time and I’ve been continually impressed at how much polish has been put into it. Plays very well on the steam deck as well! My procgen Picard is […]

Why go to your local zoo when you have such a diverse array of great apes to see in Path of Achra? #pathofachra #roguelike #ape #gaming #steam #indiegames #indiedev

A most excellent dramatized experience of what one gets in Path of Achra https://youtu.be/nUgSG4kIBpI #pathofachra #roguelike #kruggsmash #gaming #steam #indiegame #indiedev

Ever wish Hades had a female-first cast with some muscle mommy attitude? Well medieval punk Reignbreaker has you covered! The final game from now shuttered Studio Fizbin, we put on some Cockney accents and deep dive script writing. What’s that you say? Hades 2 exists? Oh… […]

Well deserved https://bsky.app/profile/kitfoxgames.com/post/3lmugs3oe6m2t #dwarffortress #roguelike #steam #gaming #indiegame #indiedev #roguelite #kitfox #SteamDeck

Having to work a day job means I completely forgot about the #iii_initiative showcase this morning. I even had a phone reminder set up and everything!

What game can you find brave knights, construction bots, prison wardens, pain mirrors, chaotic walls, crows, laser turrets, AND self-replicating crab units? Why none other than Cube Chaos of course! 500+ units and 1000+ passive effects are packed into the RTS/tower defense autobattler that is […]