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Post Post #0 (ISO) » Sat Mar 14, 2015 10:20 am

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Anyone else enjoy roguelikes? Recently picked up Tales of Maj'Eyal, pretty neat, although a bit on the easy side, it seems.
Another favorite of mine is Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, I've spent countless hours on that one. Elona's another good one, although kinda convoluted at times, but hilarious and good nonetheless.

I'll be the first to admit that I didn't grow up playing these, so the ascii formats are a bit lost on me.
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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Sat Mar 14, 2015 10:38 am

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If your taste lies in the more modern roguelikes then I can personally recommend and give a brief overview of the following if you're interested? I've had a fantastic time with them all and played through them multiple times.

Crypt of the NecroDancer
Darkest Dungeon
Don't Starve
Dungeon of the Endless
FTL
Teleglitch
Ziggurat
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Sat Mar 14, 2015 10:39 am

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I haven't played many red coloured games.

Or make-up related games. Do you have any recommendations?
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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Sat Mar 14, 2015 10:39 am

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Or are we on about Estonian games? Haven't played many of those ones either.
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Sat Mar 14, 2015 11:41 am

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In post 2, Nexus wrote:I haven't played many red coloured games.

Or make-up related games. Do you have any recommendations?


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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Sat Mar 14, 2015 11:51 am

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In post 1, TheButtonmen wrote:

Crypt of the NecroDancer
Darkest Dungeon
Don't Starve
Dungeon of the Endless
FTL
Teleglitch
Ziggurat


staying away from crypt of the necrodancer because I play way too many music games as it is haha

some of these look pretty neat, others... eh. dungeon of the endless looks pretty interesting though. space themed roguelike? I could dig that.
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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Sun Mar 15, 2015 7:37 am

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Other good games already listed so

play DUNGEONMANS
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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Sun Mar 15, 2015 7:39 am

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I really like FTL and Don't Starve.

Also a fan of Dungeons of Dredmor!
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Post Post #8 (ISO) » Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:39 am

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I enjoyed ftl as a train game. Izzy recommended sunless sea, and that was a brilliant game. Ticked pretty much all the boxes for what I look for in such a game.

Otherwise, not the biggest fan of this genre.
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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:40 am

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In post 6, Brandi wrote:Other good games already listed so

play DUNGEONMANS

oh god this looks so good
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Post Post #10 (ISO) » Sun Mar 15, 2015 3:34 pm

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Post Post #11 (ISO) » Sun Mar 15, 2015 3:39 pm

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In post 10, Untrod Tripod wrote:NetHack

played a ton of nethack on android
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Post Post #12 (ISO) » Mon Mar 16, 2015 4:48 am

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I enjoy FTL and occasionally Rogue Legacy. I should branch out to other roguelikes.
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Post Post #13 (ISO) » Wed Mar 18, 2015 8:24 am

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FTL is pretty much the best game anyone's mentioned - if this was a debate about the "best" roguelike, it'd really hard to argue against. Sunless Sea is really good, too, particularly in terms of the stories told within. Rogue Legacy is a pretty interesting game that I enjoyed the hell out of. Nuclear Throne is a game I've watched people play but haven't played myself, but it looks fun and it apparently is, so it's worth considering.

One thing I would point out is that Darkest Dungeon, which is mentioned above, isn't finished yet. It's an early access game that has yet to have it's endgame implemented, so you yif being able to win is important to you, you might want to hold off on that.
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Post Post #14 (ISO) » Thu Mar 19, 2015 7:59 am

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Binding of Isaac is a roguelike, right?
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Post Post #15 (ISO) » Thu Mar 19, 2015 10:03 am

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Isaac is probably the least roguelike of other mentioned, but the others don't perfectly hit the mark either so it kinda fits.
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Post Post #16 (ISO) » Thu Mar 19, 2015 3:21 pm

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Crawl is the best and the secret answer is to play more Crawl. ;)

But pretty much all the thread recs are good. Nuclear Throne in particular is sublime. I'll also throw out a mention for Invisible Inc. Kind of like a stealth based XCOM.

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Post Post #17 (ISO) » Thu Mar 19, 2015 4:03 pm

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1. Humble got ya covered https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly
2. I have played a few. Crypt of the Necrodancer and Rogue Legacy are both great. I didn't really care for Binding of Isaac though. Too much RNG.
I derped around in FTL a few times too, it's decent fun but it didn't hook me.
I have a few roguelikes in my steam library still to play tho. Tower of Guns looked pretty neat especially, need to get on playing that one I think
The Nightmare Cooperative from that bundle also looks really interesting and made me pick up the bottom tier there yay
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Post Post #18 (ISO) » Mon Aug 17, 2015 3:00 pm

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In post 5, choof wrote:
In post 1, TheButtonmen wrote:

Crypt of the NecroDancer
Darkest Dungeon
Don't Starve
Dungeon of the Endless
FTL
Teleglitch
Ziggurat


staying away from crypt of the necrodancer because I play way too many music games as it is haha.


I actually highly recommend trying it, it is a great game.
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Post Post #19 (ISO) » Mon Aug 17, 2015 5:48 pm

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my favourites are:

actual roguelikes:
Adom
FrozenDepths

roguelike-likes:
Unrealworld is kind of like a roguelike but it’s more of a survival sandbox thing but it started out as a roguelike 20 years ago.
LostLabyrinth is kind of like a roguelike but it has pictures

played some angband and nethack and rogue and crawl etc too of course.
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Post Post #20 (ISO) » Thu Aug 20, 2015 7:20 am

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My personal favorite is catyclysm dda. Also FTL is pretty fun (not a traditional roguelike), but I can never beat the final boss. I have risk of rain on steam but I haven't gotten into it yet.
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Post Post #21 (ISO) » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:24 am

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In post 13, Bella wrote:FTL is pretty much the best game anyone's mentioned - if this was a debate about the "best" roguelike, it'd really hard to argue against. Sunless Sea is really good, too, particularly in terms of the stories told within. Rogue Legacy is a pretty interesting game that I enjoyed the hell out of. Nuclear Throne is a game I've watched people play but haven't played myself, but it looks fun and it apparently is, so it's worth considering.

One thing I would point out is that Darkest Dungeon, which is mentioned above, isn't finished yet. It's an early access game that has yet to have it's endgame implemented, so you yif being able to win is important to you, you might want to hold off on that.

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Post Post #22 (ISO) » Thu Aug 20, 2015 10:37 am

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Invisible Inc has been a fantastic time sink recently.
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Post Post #23 (ISO) » Thu Aug 20, 2015 4:39 pm

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In post 22, TheButtonmen wrote:Invisible Inc has been a fantastic time sink recently.

I really enjoyed it, but it felt like after beating it a couple times and unlocking everything there was no incentive to replay it
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Post Post #24 (ISO) » Sat Aug 22, 2015 7:40 pm

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agree that crawl is really good and dope.
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