Red Rogue Sea is one high up on my wishlist! After being completely hooked by FTL: Faster Than Light when it originally released, I'm always keen to see more like it and now a demo is available.
Yup. Love it or hate it. I feel like Balatro renewed this hype train as it cooled off a bit. But even without it, Slay the Spire 2 would have brought it back again.
I was on the fence for a long while but overall I’m enjoying these more and more. Some are more sophisticated than others!
Rogue-like: Randomly generated levels, high difficulty, ‘run’ based with very limited continuity between runs. (Generally, items and resources gained on a run are lost when the run ends, usually there is an exception that lets you improve some aspect of your character for the next run)
Deckbuilder: Actions, movement and/or abilities are controlled by randomly drawing power cards from a deck. Spent cards are move to a discard pile. When your draw pile is empty, shuffle the discard pile and move it to the draw pile.
During the game, cards can be added and removed from the deck, allowing the player to tune their decks for a desired playstyle.
It’s self-consciousness (less charitably called hack writing or selling out). These are game developers trying to chase market trends rather than following their hearts.
Some are honestly trying to make games that they themselves would love. But it does have a bit of the feel of “I love ice cream and I love dill pickles, so why not dill pickle ice cream?!”
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I feel like everything is a rogue like deckbuilder now.
You forgot survival.
Yup. Love it or hate it. I feel like Balatro renewed this hype train as it cooled off a bit. But even without it, Slay the Spire 2 would have brought it back again.
I was on the fence for a long while but overall I’m enjoying these more and more. Some are more sophisticated than others!
I still don’t even know what that means
Rogue-like: Randomly generated levels, high difficulty, ‘run’ based with very limited continuity between runs. (Generally, items and resources gained on a run are lost when the run ends, usually there is an exception that lets you improve some aspect of your character for the next run)
Deckbuilder: Actions, movement and/or abilities are controlled by randomly drawing power cards from a deck. Spent cards are move to a discard pile. When your draw pile is empty, shuffle the discard pile and move it to the draw pile.
During the game, cards can be added and removed from the deck, allowing the player to tune their decks for a desired playstyle.
Dude I know, deckbuilding sucks too IMO.
Yeah, I can see why people would like it but I generally don’t enjoy card games if I can’t hold physical cards
It’s self-consciousness (less charitably called hack writing or selling out). These are game developers trying to chase market trends rather than following their hearts.
Some are honestly trying to make games that they themselves would love. But it does have a bit of the feel of “I love ice cream and I love dill pickles, so why not dill pickle ice cream?!”