Atomicrops Image: Bird Bath Games/Raw Fury Our latest update added Atomicrops, Griftlands, and Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate. That’s where we come in.įrom intense romps through vampire-infested castles, to ruthless rampages through the depths of Tartarus, to carefully planned but quickly ditched assassination missions across the world, here are the best roguelikes you can play right now.
This has led to somewhat of a saturation in the market, where it can often be difficult to know which game among hundreds is the one for you. Hell, one of 2021’s best games was a roguelike from a PlayStation first-party studio. They have become so trendy, in fact, that aspects of their makeup are now often visible in behemoth AAA efforts, from mechanics like permadeath, to procedurally generated dungeons, to build variety in their design ethos. Still, it’s only in the last decade or so that roguelikes entered the mainstream. Roguelikes are difficult to stop playing because, more often than not, you’re improving in some way.Īlthough roguelikes’ surge in popularity is still a recent phenomenon, their history dates back more than 40 years - since 1980, to be exact, which is when Rogue put the “rogue” in roguelike. The allure of the roguelike sells itself: rewarding repetition and the tantalizing hope that your next run, whether because of the new tools you’ve gathered, the new skills you’ve developed, or the new stats you’ve buffed, will be more successful than the last.
