Man, I feel like I’ve been playing a lot of roguelikes lately. That’s totally okay with me, as long as they remain fast and stylish, and oh boy does Black Future ’88 […]
Review: Roguelike Black Future ‘88 Oozes Style out of its Neon Pores
Review: Classic Roguelike ADOM: Ancient Domains of Mystery Gets a Modern Makeover
ADOM: Ancient Domains of Mystery has been around since 1994. Originally developed for Linux-based systems, ADOM used ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Exchange) to create rudimentary shapes for a turn-based fantasy […]
Review: A Robot Named Fight is a Grotesque “Metroguelite” Anyone Can Love
A Robot Named Fight is developer Matt Bitner’s carefully crafted homage to the games he loved as a kid. Even if you didn’t play games like Super Metroid, Contra, Mega Man or Castlevania, […]
Review: Roguelike Shooter Synthetik Delivers Robot Carnage
Back in 1982, Larry DeMar and Eugene Jarvis made a game called Robotron, a coin-op arcade game where the player zaps endless waves of machines bent on the annihilation of mankind. I bring […]
Review: Hellmut: The Badass from Hell–Transform, Fight, Die in this Stylish Roguelike
I’d like to make a confession: I’ve only played two games in the increasingly popular roguelike genre, FTL: Faster Than Light and Enter the Gungeon. While fun, they reminded me too much of […]
Game Review: Tangledeep Flirts with Roguelike Perfection
Developer Impact Gameworks’ debut title Tangledeep is a graphical homage to the 16-bit SNES era of video games touting true roguelike gameplay. A true roguelike should have procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, […]
