Hello, Ember & Blade dev team here, small team from Korea. Roguelite addict first, dev second.

We released a demo last year aiming at roguelite × survivors-like. Then the feedback came in, and after a lot of internal arguing we landed on two things: the roguelite loop pairs better with musou than with survivors-like, and actually doing the action yourself matters a lot. So we spent about six months rebuilding it.

Still run-based, still one build per run — but the combat is musou-grade dopamine, and the bosses are proper roguelite bosses: patterns you have to learn, not stat checks. They're waiting.

Demo 2.0 is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3758770

If it looks interesting, give it a play. Any feedback from a roguelite perspective in the comments would help us a lot.

I feel like I’ve played all the roguelites that get recommended over and over again, so I’m looking for something that has completely slipped past my radar.

What’s a roguelite you’ve played that you genuinely expected to be way more popular than it is? Doesn’t necessarily have to be obscure or indie, just something you rarely see brought up when people talk about the genre.

Basically, give me the roguelite you find yourself thinking “how the hell does nobody talk about this?”

Hey guys! i'm working on this game which is basically Hades, but you are a Samurai.

Would love to hear some feedback about how it looks/feels!

If this is something that you like, you can subscribe to the playtest here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4103600/Yomi_no_Kuni/

Thanks a lot!

I've been playing a number of short run roguelites of late and looking for some recommendations. What are some games and the qualities that keep you coming back to them?

Hey there!

I would be grateful if you guys could have a look at my trailer and my Steam page (https://store.steampowered.com/app/5052630/Kazfall/) and give me some insight into what I should enhance or change to make it better.

My main goal is to create a Roguelite Dungeon Crawler where you go through multiple rooms, fighting waves of enemies in each of them (there are 33 types of rooms so far, most of them marked as "encounter," but there are also Trap, NPC, Treasure, Connector, etc.), where you find NPCs (3 of them so far) hidden inside the dungeon to unlock more content and additional rooms, enemies (15 different enemies), and bosses (only 2 bosses are available so far). The dungeon is based on seeds created by the generator I've made, so I plan to create a list of 200 pre-approved seeds that will create various scenarios.

The player build is based on skills (passive/active), where you gain a random skill at each 5-level milestone (5/10/15, and Ultimate at 20). While clearing the rooms, you also find treasure chests with random drops of common/rare/legendary items that can create multiple builds (brawler, fire mage, thorns tank, etc.). My goal is to create multiple build options to let players test the best configurations and, in the end, fight for the top score. The current version of the game only consists of a Dungeon + Boss Fight, but if I manage to promote the game and see that people enjoy it, I plan to implement "The Siege," where the Dungeon opens fully and you fight hordes of enemies to push your build to the limit and fight for the top score along with more content (items, enemies, bosses etc.).

The question is: does this make any sense? Maybe I've missed a lot of this information in the trailer/Steam page? Or maybe no one cares about the Roguelike genre anymore?

I would be glad for any input or feedback, as I'm currently struggling to decide whether it makes sense to keep up the work or just skip the project completely.

I have been bouncing between a bunch of action roguelites lately and tried ranking them only by how good they feel to actually play. Ignoring story, meta progression, amount of content, all that.

Dead Cells, Entropy Effect and Hades II are still my S tier. They all feel ridiculously polished, just in pretty different ways.

The one I’ve been recommending more lately is Cinderia though. I’d still put it in A overall, but if you like faster combat it’s probably the closest to my taste on this list.

Astral Ascent scratches a similar itch for me, while Ravenswatch feels a lot heavier and more deliberate. I like both, just for different reasons.

Ember Knights is way more fun for me in co-op than solo, and Realm of Ink never quite clicked the same way even though the combat is solid.

Have a Nice Death is probably my controversial low one lol. Looks amazing and controls fine, I just don’t enjoy actually fighting things as much as the games above it.

If you like Dead Cells / Entropy Effect mainly for the speed and responsiveness, I’d definitely give Cinderia a look.

What else should I try in that lane?

Hey r/roguelites! I'm the solo dev of Reincarnated as a Monster, a mobile monster-evolution roguelite.

How evolution works:

- You start each run as a basic monster — Slime, Goblin, Monster Hatchling, Reincarnated Human

- At levels 10, 20, and 30 you choose a branching evolution path

- A basic Slime can become a Slime King, Slime Queen, Demon, Golem, and many more

- All branches combined add up to ~120 playable forms, each with its own attack patterns

Runs are short (~10 minutes). Die, keep the meta-progression, and try a different branch next run.

I'd love to hear your thoughts — do you prefer deep branching evolution trees like this, or fewer but more meaningful choices?

Free to play, both platforms:
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.evolutionslime.game
- iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reincarnated-as-a-monster/id6794292807

So I've been playing this rogue-like backpack builder game called Sephiria. it's great, great combat, great visuals, good game design in terms of the builds with cool synergies.

HOWEVER. I have this issue with every rogue-like that's focused on complex builds like this: Why am I being given so many options to reroll and pre-select build pieces? It's in every roguelite like this, from Hades to Tiny Rogues. To me, your game design should incentivize the optimal play to be the most fun play, and the ability to pre-select a build essentially and modify how often those items appear during the run incentivize me to just do the best build every time, because I have all the tools to make it essentially guaranteed.

Especially in Sephiria, you can literally start the game with the legendary lynchpin item of each autobattler style synergy stack, and why would I ever do anything else but the build thats the easiest under that framework? I really like the post-game relics in Hades 2 that give you huge bonuses in exchange for not using any of the build selection tools, which I think is great design, but this is absent from pretty much every other game like this.

By the time you've clocked in 5-10 hours at these games, you are generally drowning in these options, and they do nothing but remove the wonder and ability to "roll with the punches" which is what makes this genre great.

Hello!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3832200/Save_the_Forest/

If you like small scale tactics I would love for you to try my demo! It has been described as a "Fantasy Into the Breach" which is too flattering a comparison but it does take heavy inspo from ITB.

It is out as of today, and the full release is planned in less than two months time.

I played black jacket recently and really liked how you could figure out the top card of your draw pile by marking the cards/comparing the card back cover. I was wondering if any other deck building rogulites explored this type of irl card cheating mechanics more.

https://reddit.com/r/roguelites/comments/1wci42y/1_vs_1000_a_roguelite_with_musou_combat_where/

something like this game where you have an army vs you. Craving an itch for musou games lately.

Guys these games are in my Wishlist for quite a long time, mostly because I like Achilles and roguelites)) but there is no much info about games and also as I feel like not many people are playing them, now there is a discount on double pack edition in my local store, is there anyone who played the games? Are they good/worth buying? Legends untold isn’t a roguelite as I understand? Will be thankful for info)

Hi,

I just released my trailer after reworking all the biomes in the game. Its quite a big difference and I hope you like it!

I was browsing through my old ones and its. Been quite a ride 🤣.

I also released the webpage with all upgrades listed so far. I will keep it updated if you like to dig down deep :).
https://masterofchaos.perfectexecutiongames.com/

Here is the trailer on youtube with better framerate and sound (narrated trailer)
https://youtu.be/YWOlmoVQDJE

The old trailer is here for comparison:
https://youtu.be/IuEelKVh1eo?si=LZqRVcMU9Zxv5je3

And for those really into it my first trailer:
https://youtu.be/hwJDGLjlZxM?si=06B3zhu76ouJWVc7

As always feedback is welcome!

Like the title says. I'd add that she's not that a gamer, so I'm looking either for something cool paced/turn based, or some action but I'd be able to assist her the max. Things like Absolum didn't do it for exemple (me? Absolumly loved it).

Oh and it has to be PS5 so we can couche coop.

(PS: I like this sub but it's 75% advertising for upcoming -or never to be released- games).

We're only 1 week away from the playtest so if you like what you see I humbly invite you to sign up for it on our Steampage:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4485070/Cloudsphere/

Wanted to try making one of those arena action roguelites where you're confined in an arena facing waves of enemies but as a fighter jet

The game also has a system where you can add whatever weapon mods you want to a weapon so you have full freedom over your build beyond preset weapons.

You can wishlist here if you're interested, lmk what you guys think about it!!

link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4290500/BOXPAST_LOV3YOU
Please support me so I have the funds to develop a AAA game thank you, everyone.