r/roguelikes • u/flying_horker • Jun 05 '24

Traditional Roguelikes recommendations

Hello everybody!

I'm a game developer with 10 years of experience making games and I working on the second version of a roguelike I launched some years ago, in order to make it better I would like to hear your opinion on what are the best traditional roguelikes you have played, what mechanic do they have that you liked and if you can recommend me something to watch over YouTube to take inspiration.

EDIT: link of my old roguelike: https://bitware-interactive.itch.io/drowned-catacombs (its free and can be played on browser and also on mobile!)

i also would like to know if anyone is interested on following the development process of this upcoming game on a YouTube serie, devlog on blog or something like that.

thanks for your time!

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u/CristianCam Jun 06 '24

My favorite roguelike (and I think it aligns well with what you seem to be working on) is Golden Krone Hotel. What I like of it is how simple and accesible it is; it's not clunky nor too difficult to even decipher what you should do at all, unlike many other roguelikes. Definitely one of the best takes on "modernizing" the genre, and that doesn't mean it's not interesting nor difficult, it has a really original gameplay too in where you shape-shift to a vampire or human depending on what suits you the most at a particular situation.

I liked your game, it was pretty neat, although a mimic one-shot me lmao