It's an important game in the genre and more or less created an entire sub-genre, but how well does it stack up against its peers?
It's an important game in the genre and more or less created an entire sub-genre, but how well does it stack up against its peers?
A good idea and some great vibes, but not much more than that.
Today's installment is one I've heard almost no one else talk about. It's a shame, because it does some extremely cool things with multiple genres. It deserves a lot more attention than it got, because it's something special. It is: Nowhere Prophet Time Spent: about 15 hours Completed a run? No Played on: Switch, Switch 2 Chintya was one of the first followers of the prophet Cook. He was there...
A few years ago I had a crazy idea: to rank all the modern roguelikes that I can. I got exactly four entries in before real life got in the way. I started dating the person who would eventually become my wife. I got more responsibilities at work. I didn't have the time to devote to this project. Now it's 2025 and I'm making some changes. I'm trying to spend less time on social media and more ti...
Today's installment is a big one, and one of my all time favorites. Read on to find out why! For previous entries in the series, go here Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate Time Spent: over 170 hours Completion: Finished main quest and just over half of the post-game dungeons Platform: Switch My first Shiren game was Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer on the DS. I b...
The third installment of Ranking of Roguelikes is here, and it's Dicey Dungeons ! Dicey dungeons is roguelike Yahtzee, pitting you against Lady Luck and her dangerous dungeons. Time Spent: a little over 6 hours Completion: Finished first two chapters with each character Platform: Switch I made a thread about my intense dislike of the art in this game, which turned out to be a controversial opin...
For more on this series, check my initial blog here. After further consideration, I decided to eliminate the "multiple solutions to problems" category, since it's a little too close to the "experimentation and improvisation" one. I replaced it with something that should have been there from the beginning: the "just one more run" factor: how likely are you to jump into another run immediately af...
GOTY discussions are always weird for me. I rarely play the latest releases, because I don't have the latest systems. I play almost exclusively on Switch and iOS, so most of the big AAA blockbusters aren't going to be here. Some of these weren't released in 2021, but I didn't get to play them until this year. Unless otherwise noted, I played all of these on the Switch. Arknights (iOS, Android)...
It's here, the first installment of my hopefully long-running series, the Ranking of (Modern) Roguelikes. I'll be looking at as many as I can, viewing them through the prism of four categories: improvisation and experimentation, risk/reward calculations, multiple solutions to problems, and teaching through failure . For more information on the what and why, check out the original blog here . Su...
Rogue is one of my favorite games, and the Roguelike is my favorite genre. The past decade or so has been very good to me. Developers large and small have embraced the roguelike design and refined it in creative and unexpected ways. Inspired by @mento and @imunbeatable80 and their semi-regular series, I want to put together my own "ranking of roguelikes." I'll talk about how the title uses the...
