Dungeon-crawling is crucial to traditional roguelikes, offering a simplistic and satisfying gameplay loop. Not all action roguelikes follow the dungeon-crawling formula, so preferences should align.

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The roguelike genre is a complicated thing. There's some disagreement over how exactly to define a roguelike game, but permanent death and procedural level generation are generally held up as two of ...

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Roguelikes. They're a test, aren't they? A test of your patience, of your pattern recognition and of your ability to make a good decision when you're under an incredible amount of pressure. And these ...

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If you ever wondered why so many roguelikes seem hell-bent on adding deck-building systems to their gameplay, then one can only point you in the direction of Slay the Spire. This indie game from 2019 ...

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