Category: Roguelike

Luxman Moonlit Market brings 'Balatro-inspired power-up management' to strategic tile-placement roguelikes

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2025

Luxman Moonlit Market is a strategic tile-placement roguelike with Balatro-inspired power-up management according to the developer, and it looks quite fun!

Rogue Legacy developer's next game is Neath, an eldritch roguelike tactical RPG

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2025

One missed from earlier this month is Neath, a roguelike tactical RPG set in a decaying world shadowed by an irradiated, inverted tower.

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The popular Megabonk gets a mega update with new content

By Liam Dawe, 15 Dec 2025

New content for Megabonk? As if I needed more reasons to load it up. The absolute indie gem survivor-like bullet heaven just got even bigger.

Classic roguelike top-down shooter Nuclear Throne major update 100 out now

By Liam Dawe, 9 Dec 2025

A lovely blast from the past of 2015, Nuclear Throne from the revived Vlambeer has update #100 out now with some major additions and improvements.

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault has another patch for Steam Deck and to improve performance for all

By Liam Dawe, 28 Nov 2025

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault from Digital Sun and 11 bit studios should run a whole lot smoother for everyone now, and feel better on Valve's Steam Deck.

Check out the demo for top-down 2D action roguelike Shroomwood now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 17 Nov 2025

A fresh demo for you to try this week, as the top-down 2D action roguelike Shroomwood has a Linux build available for you to shoot your way through.

Tabulo is an upcoming Balatro-inspired chess roguelike

By Liam Dawe, 12 Nov 2025

Another Balatro-inspired game and this time it's a chess roguelike, and one that actually looks like it could be pretty fun.

Halls of Torment is still probably the best survivor-like with The Boglands DLC and free update out now

By Liam Dawe, 10 Nov 2025

Possibly still the absolute best action-roguelike survivor-like ever made, Halls of Torment has expanded with The Boglands DLC and a big free update.

Lexispell is a roguelike word game where strategy meets physics

By Liam Dawe, 7 Nov 2025

Now this looks like a cool mix, Lexispell brings some roguelike strategy flavour to word games with physics and the trailer easily sold me.

The classic tense horror roguelike 'Basingstoke' from Puppygames gets a big surprise upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2025

Basingstoke (now known as Welcome to Basingstoke) is an absolute underappreciated gem from Puppygames, and now is the perfect time to jump back in.

Vampire Survivors just keeps on giving with a free Balatro DLC, online co-op and more free content

By Liam Dawe, 29 Oct 2025

Vampire Survivors just dropped a massive content update that includes a free Balatro crossover DLC, online co-op is live and more added.

Spin to fight and win in Roulette Hero, a rather unique strategic roguelike deck-builder

By Liam Dawe, 24 Oct 2025

Combining elements of Slay the Spire and Luck be a Landlord, the roguelike deck-builder Roulette Hero is out now and it will likely spin your hours away.

MicroProse reveal Dungeon Holdem a mixture of poker and dungeon crawling that looks ace

By Liam Dawe, 23 Oct 2025

MicroProse just announced they're publishing Dungeon Holdem a fusion of poker, dungeon crawling, and deckbuilding RPG mechanics and it really looks ace.

BALL x PIT is out now and it's a brick-breaking ball-smashing great time

By Liam Dawe, 15 Oct 2025

BALL x PIT from Kenny Sun / Devolver Digital is out now and it's Steam Deck Verified plus it works to perfection on Desktop Linux PCs.

Death by Scrolling from Ron Gilbert / Terrible Toybox releases October 28

By Liam Dawe, 14 Oct 2025

MicroProse and Terrible Toybox have revealed an October 28th release date for Death by Scrolling which is all about fighting, dying and trying again.

One of the most promising deck-building roguelikes ever, Moonsigil Atlas gets a big demo upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2025

Moonsigil Atlas is by far one of the most interesting and promising upcoming games I've played in a while, taking deck-building roguelikes in a fun direction.

From the creator of Sally Face, horror deckbuilding roguelike The House of Hamelin has a demo up

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2025

Enter the frightful world of The House of Hamelin and take control of Perdita, a young woman tasked with finding her missing cat, Paige.

HELLREAPER from the devs of Fury Unleashed looks incredible

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2025

From the studio that gave us Fury Unleashed and Yet Another Zombie Survivors, their next game is a dark action roguelike HELLREAPER and it looks amazing.

Megabonk is a mega success selling 1 million in 2 weeks, after being repeatedly told to delay it

By Liam Dawe, 7 Oct 2025

Even though they were told constantly to delay the release, developer vedinad who made Megabonk has clearly cut through the noise with it now a mega success.