#roguelike-like

[thedarkdiaztales]

Just found out that on the Roguelikes Subreddit they are fighting over the term and how people use the term wrong. I share the same idea that the term means something specific and not what some devs and peopke that are not really part of the community say it is (Darkest Dungeon, for example, is not a roguelike but shares several of it's elements), but it is stupid how they get mad when someone uses the genre on the wrong way.

[nyttelost]

It came from Steam! I fight off Lemurians and discover the power of milk geysers.

[azureraiden]

January's Indiebox will be Nuclear Throne!!! To get you excited, I decided to play some of it =) If you like the game, let me know, and I'd be glad to keep playing!

Enjoy Friends!

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL1DTF8W0I4)

[thesadgames]

It's a first-person procedurally-generated roguelike-like RPG. No, not that one. The other one.

Let's Play Eldritch - Part 1 - The Power of Dynamite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yNCY_PlCGk

[melcadrien]

I take a look at Vagante.

One thought I came up with when playing this game was Spelunky-Like.  Yes, Spelunky is a roguelike-like but then taking that first thing and giving it something new and different does make it nice.

I've certainly had fun with this game.

[melcadrien]

How I define 'Roguelites'

I've been thinking of what can be defined as a roguelite or roguelike-likes.  I understand that, through the Berlin Interpretation, we have a basis on what is a roguelike and what is not.

However, how many does a game need to fill in order to be filed under a roguelike or roguelike-likes.

Before I begin, I would like to point to the qualities of what makes a roguelike just follow the link: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Berlin_Interpretation

The only qualities that I will only look at are the high value factors provided.

All of the high-value factors, sans the unidentified items listed under the 'Exploration and Discovery', must be filled in order for any game to be recognized as a roguelike entirely.

The only reason why the unidentified items is being excluded from this is mainly because of Dungeons of Dredmor, a game where no item is unidentified.

The question is how to define a roguelite.  How many qualities does a game need to fill in order to be called a roguelite?  Could it be one?  If so, then a lot of sandbox games, like Minecraft, is also a roguelite.  Two?  Three?

There really isn't a consensus on how many a game needs to fill.  Until then games that have one quality on the list can be called roguelites.

[vidoandboredgames-blog]

I think overall I'm pretty glad that roguelike-likes are the new puzzle platformer, as far as the indie gaming scene is concerned. I mean I enjoyed Braid and Limbo and company as much as everyone else (although a little later than most), but I think that the new takes on the roguelike spirit have been providing not only a breath of fresh air to indie gaming, but they also seem like they have a lot more creative potential and depth than puzzle platformers do. I mean, in a lot of ways Braid has been outclassed in story telling and hidden meaning and interpretation by The Binding of Isaac, which is really saying something considering that Braid was the argument for games as art for a long time. That and the fact that Binding of Isaac has more poop than most games that I can think of.

And the especially nice thing about the roguelike-like genre is that it isn't really a genre based on a mechanic (think first person shooter), but instead based on the overall idea that the game is trying to convey. It's the need to get better in order to survive that the random generation and permadeath create. It's the feeling of exploration as you get to know the world and scenarios that the games create. Defining themselves by those criteria as opposed to a theme or a specific mechanic allows these games a lot of room for designing their own playstyle. FTL plays more like a strategy game with short strategic battles that test your multitasking and micromanagement skills, while Binding of Isaac is a lot more like a dark and disturbing take on the older Zelda games' dungeons. And Spelunky, which I've been playing more recently, is much more of a platforming game, and yet the excitement of exploration and the challenge of learning to survive in each of these games is what ties them all together into a genre which makes a lot more sense than most genres of games. It makes me wonder what's coming next from the indie community.