Going Rogue: A Festival of Persistence is a new week-long event on Steam, celebrating how diverse and confusing the whole roguelike thing is.
This includes Roguelikes, Roguelites, and everything in between — so technically it covers a huge amount of games as many like to claim they're some form of roguelike. Valve even jokingly said in their press email how there's "no need to argue this on the internet with strangers" as they outline it all in their blog post. It's interesting enough, and does highlight the problems with defining game genres properly, with different interpretations and how they should be used.
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I'm liking this more natural feeling I get from Valve, they seem way more playful over the last couple of years, as you can see in the video above.
Valve also teamed up with a few content creators for a rather long video on it all:
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The event runs until May 9.
If you discover a really good deal, be sure to let us know in the comments why you think people should buy it.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: zenorougeQuoting: xaviThe classification of Roguelikes and Roguelites could take days, but for me the most important way to distinguish them is if the previous plays have significant help on the new play.
This way of distinguishing is a bit strange for someone who has played NetHack -- for most people roguelikeness is primarily a short-term gameplay genre (just like "platformer" or "first-person shooter"). So from your list, NetHack, Brogue and Sproggiwood are roguelikes (no matter the heavy meta in Sproggiwood and the bones in NetHack -- BTW other roguelikes with the bones feature do not have the curse problem), while others are not (Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell, Rogue Legacy, Risk of Rain and Noita are platformers, FTL is... a genre of its own I guess).
This also happens to agree with what the developers of these games originally used -- Enter the Gungeon seems to say nothing, Rogue Legacy says "rogue-LITE", Risk of Rain says "with roguelike elements", FTL says "roguelike-like", Noita says "roguelite", Brogue and Sproggiwood say "roguelike", NetHack says nothing but the name "roguelike" itself has been coined precisely to group games like NetHack and Angband.
This is because this short-term gameplay genre has no other name, and also because it is gameplay what makes you want to play the game -- permadeath is fun only if you love the gameplay (note that most commercial roguelikes make permadeath an option for hardcore players).
Hello zenorouge, thanks for your comments.
In the past I've been a fan of http://www.roguelikeradio.com/ and I've been learning enthusiastically on the topic and the different opinions.
Maybe there's no word for the type of games in my mind. That type of games should have permadeath and the improvement has to be based on your knowledge of the game and the skill (if it's more action oriented).
No win just with metaprogression like Vampire Survivors do. It is a funny game just to relax a bit, but the metaprogression/grindyness ruins it a bit.
Talking about FTL, when things get complicated, I pause a lot to manage everything. With the ability of command while pausing the level of action is similar to Nethack. Of course if FTL had a mode of blind pause (where you don't see and you cannot giver orders, ... a pause just for answer a phone call), then will be a different game, too much action oriented.
The way you explore in FTL, Noita, Risk of Rain is quite similar to the way you explore in Nethack. Having something that pressures you:
- fleet enemy advance on FTL
- more difficult final boss depending on how much "life containers" you find on Noita
- more difficult everytime as time passes on Risk of Rain
- more difficult levels depending on your character when you go down a floor on Nethack.
About permadeath, the Steel Soul mode of Hollow Knight is not enough because you can easily go to menu and then continue and you will be recovered on last bench.
So, yes, maybe I should not call them Roguelikes. Maybe what I like it's a compound of
- real permadeath
- win by improvement of knowledge (and skill), but not by previous games relevant metaprogression.
- about the pause... in many levels of Noita you go slow or can go step by step. Flying skills are important but most of the time you advance slow (like eg in DoomRL).
If it's a dungeon or a ship I don´t care. Variety is something nice, and by the way, if you don't know brogue or IVAN, they are great:
- https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
- https://attnam.com/
Last edited by xavi on 4 May 2022 at 8:56 am UTC
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