The ROGUE-LIKE Thread

I am ashamed/not-ashamed to admit that I've logged more time playing ADOM than I have reading Russians or doing chin-ups or w/e. I've won it three times :( Once with a gnomish monk (a surprisingly easy character, try it), an ultra win with a grey elven wizard (hospital stay), and then once this past Chrimmas with a wee beastfighter.

Brogue is getting a lot of play these days, too, the new version is crueler than ever and I keep dying and dying and dying.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/10/wot-i-think-tales-of-majeyal/

OK, I gave up on Brogue for good. After a month of good gaming I'm replacing play with swimming. I feel, with these games, that sometimes it's just like the sun comes out from behind a cloud, and the pointlessness of the activity becomes visible. Roguelikes are so unforgiving in that there's no reward in investing your time, it's like playing seven hour games of Tetris.

I tried Stone Soup but I can't get into roguelikes where the map is centred on the @ and is larger than the screen, it loses the visual appeal of the play and feels more conspicuously like inventory management

Just started Brogue, looks extremely pretty.

In Brogues

Just got FTL iPad. Addicted. Tips?

I won FTL, twice iirc. I think the first time was with a stealth + precise laser + missile combo. The second time was with a boarding party. I liberally checked FAQs for tips, didn't feel like it spoiled the game at all to do so.

Though I was all "this is not a rogue-like" about it (and stand by it), what a game. A very unproductive week when that game came to my house.

the ipad version is quite different. i haven't played it, but a friend was walking me through all the additions.

ok this game has sucked me in to the point where i'm getting mad at people for attempting to interact with me at all while i'm playing

yeah, totally. for those who haven't played it yet, it is very much worth your time.

thing i like about games like this is that they always feel so fresh. love random worlds.

got so frustrated when I would finally make it to the last boss through what I thought was savvy play only to be hilariously outgunned

i wish they'd release it for iphone :(

everything would be horribly tiny though
this game made me so mad after a while ftr

ya that would be impossible iphone, ipad is almost too msall

*on iphone

reached min maxing point with ftl in a couple too few play cycles mb

did they release the update for the PC version ever?

Aye and it's a free update. You have to make sure and check the 'advanced edition' tickbox when you're starting though, for some reason they assume you want to play the default version.

there's an "advanced content" checkbox on the ipad version i haven't clicked yet. should i? what kind of stuff is there?

got to the last level last night but was WOEFULLY underpowered. how the eff do i get there w/o sacrificing some crucial ship system? its like how can i afford enough weapon slots AND shield slots AND blast doors AND evasive power?!! i guess going for a balanced ship is not a good strategy huh

really the only way to do everything is boarding parties since that accumulates more scrap

nb, i haven't been able to beat the new hard mode so it could be there are more effective strategies now

intriguing

shattered planet is a great little small-doses roguelike for ios.

anyone else playing Card Dungeon (iOS)?

not since they updated. it felt kinda pointless as it was?

i just downloaded it and im not feeling it really

i don't think it's pointless, it's just needlessly difficult. the farthest i can get is the third dungeon (out of like 10 or whatever). although you can unlock different character traits, none of them are really much of an improvement on the default set, so you aren't able to gather experience and gradually progress farther like games like Rogue Legacy. i like my roguelikes to at least 80% skill, but card dungeon feels like 80% luck.

rogue legacy is maybe too easy tho

card dungeon seems to be 'did you randomly find a better attack card in the first two minutes? no? then you're dead', though

i did get slightly better at it once i realized that the red health fountain thing not only fills up your health but also repairs your cards. but still, i think i'm done with it.

recommendations for a fairly light roguelike i can sink some but not too many hours into to occupy my higher brain functions for a little while?

--has to be turn-based, not a procedural platformer or shooter (bleh)
--i unlocked everything in the desktop dungeons alpha and didn't like the released version

Did you play hoplite?

yes. which is a shame, because it would be exactly what i would be looking for.

i am enjoying this:

http://gamejolt.com/games/malleus-goblinficarium/54134

try invisible inc

finished invisible inc ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

brogue?

did you try darkest dungeon? i enjoyed it a lot when it first came out, i guess since then they fucked it up and then unfucked it up, so i am not sure exactly what the current state is but the core game was a decent concept

dungeons of dredmor?

bionic dues maybe?

dredmor turns me off in a lot of ways i can't explain, given that i am unsure about the level of fuckedupness of darkest dungeons bionic dues i guess it is. i am still trying to finish malleus goblinfcarium w/ the unlockable characters though

have u played tales of maj'eyal already? ftl? oh - new game that i haven't played yet but looks fantastic: renowned explorers

i remember trying renowned explorers at pax east earlier this year, it was neat but didn't really register as a roguelike to me

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dragonlair/dragonlair.htm
!

ha, super esoteric!

the curious expedition is free atm:
http://free.curious-expedition.com

i'm about 40% convinced by it. idk. whereas my first time playing ftl was swiftly followed by my second, third, fourth, fifth times, i feel i can walk away from that.

i thought the same and then i ended up playing it until 2 last nite

KM, I loved Rogue Legacy 1, but I'm a little wary after having been really excited for Spelunky 2, then being disappointed with it because it was just "more of the same", even though I had thought that's exactly what I'd wanted.

Haha what a highly delayed exchange/realization

ZZT is not a roguelike in any way, it was an ASCII puzzle-action game designed by a very-young Tim Sweeney (who went on to start Epic, now an Unreal engine/Gears Of War multi-multi-millionaire). I designed a game for it when I was 12 and at least one person played and reviewed it last year haha

https://museumofzzt.com/review/q/tiara.zip

Nice! ZZT graphics really appealed to me as a kid, probably in the same way that Minecraft does to kids today.