Review by Tyler T. No genre depends on the moment to moment gameplay being thrilling as much as roguelikes. If you’re going to convince a player to willingly replay progress in making their way through a dungeon multiple times, then you’re going to need to make sure they enjoy the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Publisher, FuRyu, has been behind niche hits like The Caligula Effect and Lost Dimension, and we’re hoping that Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Spring, based on the anime, can continue the trend. Yuuna is a mystery dungeon experience (hence the “Dungeon” in the title), and it…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Bad North’s description: “minimalistic, real-time tactics roguelite,” sounds like it’s the latest in the ongoing irritating habit that indie developers have to throw every buzzword they can think of into their descriptions. It’s almost always a desperate bid to try and make their game stand out…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I really liked Touhou Genso Wanderer over on the PlayStation 4. As I’m a self-styled roguelike purist, the closer that developers get to Shiren the Wanderer (the game that provided us with the foundations for the Mystery Dungeon format) the better. When I play a roguelike,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. After making the announcement that it was suspending game activity earlier this week, FuRyu came back to clarify that it was only talking about mobile game development. Which is good, because now we get Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs: Steam Dungeon, a new roguelike for…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. In a battle between a family owned restaurant and a big soulless corporation, I’d side with the homegrown business any day. So does Pupuru, star of Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God, a lighthearted roguelike developed by Compile Heart, originally released for the Vita…
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Read MoreReview by Matt S. City of Brass is such a rare treat. Set in the heart of a 1001 Arabian Nights story (one of my favourite books of all time), the game offers all those fantasy Middle Eastern aesthetics and themes that I love (but rarely get to see), wrapped…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Compile Heart’s Sorcery Saga has got to be the more underappreciated roguelikes. That comes with being a PlayStation Vita exclusive, I guess. For the most part a very traditional take on the genre, with its top-down perspective, just like Spike Chunsoft’s Shiren the Wanderer (the torchbearer…
Read MoreReview by Ginny W. Roguelites are a dime a dozen these days. While they’ve come a (very) long way and bear almost no resemblance now to the original game that coined the moniker, titles that fall into this subset of procedurally generated titles are often a surefire hit on both…
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