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Loop Hero is a unique looking adventure deck-builder mix with an endless cycle of despair

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2021

Loop Hero is a probably the most unique deck-building mix I've seen yet. Coming from Four Quarters and Devolver Digital later in 2021.

Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos releases in February 2021

By Liam Dawe, 9 Dec 2020

Team ADOM and Assemble Entertainment have announced that Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos will be releasing into Early Access in early 2021.

Shortest Trip to Earth gets a second DLC expansion with new content

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2020

Shortest Trip to Earth, a roguelike spaceship sim that somewhat resembles FTL but with far more depth to it has a second expansion now available.

KeeperRL, the open source dungeon building sim is getting a price bump in November

By Liam Dawe, 20 Oct 2020

Fancy becoming a dungeon master? Well, if you're watching the pennies you might want to go and pick up KeeperRL before they price gets bumped up.

Open source dungeon building sim 'KeeperRL' adds in a new Warlord game mode

By Liam Dawe, 14 Oct 2020

Another fine example of open source in action with a commercial indie game here, as the dungeon building sim KeeperRL continues being upgraded.

Fast-paced action-roguelike 'Burning Knight' goes fully open source

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2020

After recently releasing the first major post-release update, the developer of the action-roguelike Burning Knight decided to open source the whole thing.

Action-packed roguelike Burning Knight gains local co-op with a big content update out now

By Liam Dawe, 3 Oct 2020

The first major post-launch update for the action-packed roguelike Burning Knight is out now. On top of new content, there's also now local co-op support.

First person dungeon-crawler 'Delver' properly open source again, pulls in lots of updates

By Liam Dawe, 21 Sep 2020

After only recently being released on itch.io, it seems the team behind the chunky-pixel first-person dungeon crawler Delver aren't done.

Dicey Dungeons, the innovative and great fun deck-builder has a huge update out

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2020

Mixing together card-based abilities, deck-building and dice - Dicey Dungeons is a fantastic roguelike worth your time and a big update just went out.

Stadia is getting Risk of Rain 2, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Scott Pilgrim and more

By Liam Dawe, 14 Sep 2020

Google have announced multiple new titles are coming to their Linux and Vulkan powered game streaming service, Stadia. This includes some pretty big and popular titles. Time for another Stadia round-up.

Gothic horror roguelike Golden Krone Hotel gets a wonderful overhaul

By Liam Dawe, 1 Sep 2020

Golden Krone Hotel is an approachable, easy to understand and thoroughly underrated roguelike that you should check out. Especially now, with a big update out that overhauls lots.

Draft of Darkness adds a little survival horror to deck-building roguelikes

By Liam Dawe, 24 Aug 2020

Whatever will developers come up with next for deck-building card games? Survival horror, as it turns out. Draft of Darkness was announced and it's coming to Linux.

Roguelike shoot 'em up Good Robot is now open source

By Liam Dawe, 17 Aug 2020

Fast-paced roguelike shoot-em-up Good Robot released in 2016 from Pyrodactyl has now had the code opened up under the MIT license.

Dead Cells gets another big free update and a Demake Soundtrack

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2020

A chiptune/8-bit version of the Dead Cells soundtrack? Absolutely sign me up. Oh, there's also a brand new free content update out now which is nice too.

Streets of Rogue gets a big bug-fix update as work continues on a sequel

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2020

Streets of Rogue, one of my absolute favourite indie games has a new update out as work continues to find and fix every possible bug, plus a few new bits were added.

Inscryption from the developer of Pony Island has a new trailer

By Liam Dawe, 11 Aug 2020

Inscryption from Daniel Mullins Games (Pony Island, The Hex) sounds absolutely wild and it's got a brand new trailer but we've got quite some time to wait on it.

Challenging co-op dungeon crawler 'Barony' gets Linux Steam and Epic Store crossplay

By Liam Dawe, 10 Aug 2020

Recently, the first-person dungeon crawling roguelike Barony had a bit of an upgrade along with a release on the Epic Store and that came with crossplay.

UnderMine is a challenging dungeon-crawler that's worth digging deep for - out now

By Liam Dawe, 6 Aug 2020

After a successful run in Early Access, Thorium Entertainment have today released their dungeon crawling action-adventure UnderMine.

Stoneshard has a small equipment patch while they rework the AI and Dungeons

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jul 2020

Ink Stains Games have announced that their Early Access and thoroughly challenging roguelike, Stoneshard, is set to get a huge overhaul to the AI and Dungeon Generation systems.