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Build a legendary deck of magical cards in 'Dungeon Drafters' - confirmed for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 7 Mar 2020

Dungeon Drafters is a deck-builder that's also a rogue-lite dungeon crawler, with cute graphics and action that looks seriously sweet.

Skul: The Hero Slayer has you swap your skull to gain new powers - now in Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2020

Skul: The Hero Slayer is an action-packed rogue-lite platformer, where you play as the anti-hero Skul who sets off on a quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his demon King from captivity.

Get ready to eat your enemies in Bite the Bullet - releasing on March 27

By Liam Dawe, 15 Feb 2020

We have it confirmed now that the crazy action-platformer RPG 'Bite the Bullet' where you quite literally eat your enemies is releasing in March.

Prepare for another run as Dead Cells: The Bad Seed is out

By Liam Dawe, 11 Feb 2020

Fusing elements of a rogue-lite metroidvania and a serious action-platformer, Dead Cells, today has the first paid DLC expansion out with Dead Cells: The Bad Seed.

Fast-paced free-moving rogue-lite 'ScourgeBringer' out now and it's damn good

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2020

Flying Oak Games might have done the unthinkable here, they may have dethroned Dead Cells in my heart with ScourgeBringer.

ScourgeBringer - an incredibly stylish mix something between 'Dead Cells and Celeste' arrives soon

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jan 2020

Flying Oak Games and Dear Villagers have announced that ScourgeBringer, their wonderfully stylish rogue-lite platformer is releasing on February 6 in Early Access.

Wizard of Legend gets a little electric in a huge content update out now

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2020

Contingent99 just released a massive upgrade to Wizard of Legend, their fast-paced magical action game and it continues to be brilliant.

ShotX Studio got a big boost to sales by releasing a free torrent of Danger Gazers

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2020

This is certainly an unusual way to get a little extra support for your game. ShotX Studio, an indie outfit of just developer Shota Bobokhidze who recently released the rather good Danger Gazers put it up in a torrent.

The Level Editor and Steam Workshop support for the crazy Streets of Rogue is now live

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jan 2020

Streets of Rogue, my personal pick for 2019 just expanded with a new update now out. This makes the Level Editor and Steam Workshop support fully live for everyone.

Stylish and tough rogue-lite shooter 'Danger Gazers' released

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2020

ShotX Studio (Kontrakt, Riskers) recently released Danger Gazers, a very stylish rogue-lite shooter with a lot to like about it.

Grave Days brings fast-paced survival rogue-lite action to the Zombie Apocalypse

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2020

Inspired by the likes of some great games including Streets of Rogue, Death Road to Canada and Project Zomboid we now have Grave Days.

Deck-building rogue-lite RPG, A Long Way Down, entering Early Access this month

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jan 2020

A Long Way Down mashes together elements of an RPG and a deck-building game, as you attempt to escape a maze and it's coming to Linux later this month.

Monolith: Relics of the Past extends the excellent shooter with a ridiculous amount of extra content

By Liam Dawe, 30 Dec 2019

Monolith's twin-stick rogue-lite room to room shooting is practically perfection, it didn't need an expansion but I'm glad Relics of the Past exists so I can sit and play a huge amount more.

With destructible terrain and tough enemies, the rogue-lite Gerty is out now

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2019

In Gerty, sometimes the only way to escape is to dig your way to victory, just be careful to watch those corners.

Streets of Rogue gains a new playable Robot character

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2019

Streets of Rogue, the absolutely crazy action RPG rogue-lite from Matt Dabrowski continues polishing up the level editor and Steam Workshop support. While we wait for those bits to leave Beta, a new Robot character became available.

Wield the power of the gods in the dungeon crawler Viking Vengeance, now on Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe, 22 Nov 2019

Taking a lightning strike of Norse mythology with a pinch of alternate timeline, Viking Vengeance looks like a dungeon crawling rogue-lite that could be a lot of fun.

Streets of Rogue now has a Level Editor and Steam Workshop in Beta, along with an update released

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2019

Streets of Rogue, the incredibly fun rogue-lite from Matt Dabrowski has a new update out. This includes a playable version of the Level Editor and Steam Workshop support in Beta, with new content also available for everyone.

Dead Cells gets bigger again with a new mini-biome and mutations

By Liam Dawe, 7 Nov 2019

The brilliant rogue-lite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer Dead Cells has another awesome content update available now.

The roadmap for upcoming updates to UnderMine sound great with lots of new encounters coming

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2019

UnderMine hasn't been out for long but it's already becoming a regularly game I play, this gameplay loop is sweet and it's about to get a lot more interesting.