Cult of the Lamb is a cup of Binding of Isaac mixed with a dollop of Stardew Valley, combined to form a cult of fun.
Roguelike
Turnip Boy is back for a new criminal adventure! Tax evasion’s not enough. Now he’s moved onto bank robbery with a heist bound to go down in infamy, or flames.
If you’re hungry for something rogueish, gorge yourself on Monster Menu: The Scavenger’s Cookbook. Meat’s back on the menu.
Rogue Legacy 2 takes everything you loved about the original and gives you even more of a good thing with a bigger castle and more classes.
Cursed to Golf combines the familiar sport with roguelites for a whole new experience that’s 2 parts heaven and 2 parts hell.
Jupiter Hell is more than a DOOM clone, combining the infernal energy of the classic shooter and turn-based roguelike gameplay.
Rogue, the game that began the roguelike movement provided players with more than permadeath and procedural generation, it brought adventure!
GoNNER 2 is a rogue-like sequel to die for: adding more zaniness, more surreal visuals, and even local multiplayer to Ikk’s underworld adventures.
This roguelike dungeon crawler may be a mouthful to tell people about, but it’s worth sharing.
Supergiant Games’ Hades is positively divine and this is the story of how it restored my faith in roguelikes.
Something weird is growing on Nintendo Switch and it’s Atomicrops, the hideously fun lovechild of farming sims and rogue-lites, with bullet hell for flavor.
Check out our Sparklite critique for the latest indie from Red Blue Games, Merge Games, and Maple Whispering. It shows a lot of potential!
“In the old days, books had awful covers and marvelous content; nowadays, the opposite happens.”
-Giacomo Leopardi
When you can’t cheat the game, you’d best find a means to cheat the players….
The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage does his best to get to grips with Cultist Simulator, but gazing too long upon the Old Ones has been known to cause loosened grips…
I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They’re worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.
-J.Cornell Michel, Jordan’s Brains: A Zombie Evolution
“It wasn’t like there was some obvious change. Actually, the problem was more a lack of change. Nothing about her had changed – the way she spoke, her clothes, the topics she chose to talk about, her opinions – they were all the same as before. Their relationship was like a pendulum gradually grinding to a halt, and he felt out of synch.”
–Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
In this Vagrant Story critique, we revisit one of the more challenging and inaccessible offerings from Square right at the tail end of the 90s.
Hola, NPCs! Don’t mind the leering, icy stare of death, my friends. That’s just…
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
-Walt Disney
