I’ve enjoyed:
Into the Breach, 40 hours of playtime
FTL, 25 hours
Slay the Spire, 17 hours
Balatro, 13 hours
Monster Train, 8 hours
The most recent one is Dead Cells, 19 hours
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Sound like you like turn-based roguelikes.
He is Coming is the trendiest flavor of the month. Loop Hero was pretty popular a few years ago and is on sale quite often.
But you could use Steam’s explore to drill down:
Gonna pull out a deep cut and recommend Invisible Inc: a turn based stealth game from Klei. It’s loads of fun and really well designed
Monster Train 2, its better than the first game
Caves of Qud, grow 4 arms and a face on your arm-foot.
Jupiter Hell
Path of Achra
Siralim Ultimate. (It looks bad but it’s good)
Into The Breach -> Tactical Breach Wizards plays similarly (tactical game with undo and pushing stuff) but is deeper and has great writing.
FTL -> I don’t have any recs that have similar gameplay, but you can get cool space vibes for free - Escape Velocity: Nova is abandonware, and The Ur-Quan Masters is open source.
Slay The Spire -> Slice & Dice is vaguely similar but it’s dice. And also like deeper, more challenging, sicko shit.
Balatro -> There’s a whole wave of games trying to be a Balatro But right now, and I don’t think any have really gotten there, but Merge Maestro is cheap and has a little bit of the feel.
Monster Train -> I never actually played this, so it’s time to plug UFO 50, the game that’s 50 games in one. Several of them (Bug Hunter, Avianos, Party House) are up your alley from what you listed. Others may be.
Dead Cells -> If you like hard combat-heavy platformers you should get into Hollow Knight. The sequel, Silksong, is harder, but also even better.
Slice & Dice
Good rec, I hadn’t seen this before. It’s fun
Monster Train 2 def
Roboquest and/or Voidbreaker is you like twitchy FPS (as you seem to like roguelite-spinoff genres), Voidbreaker is UE5 though so it might run like shit depending on hardware
He is Coming is good but a bit too light on for me
9 Kings
Vampire Survivors
Death Must Die
Caves of Qud (goated but extremely deep)
Risk of Rain 1/2
Inscryption
Hollow Knight of courseReviewing this list of games i’ve played in the last 5 years again, I really have to shout out Roboquest more because i don’t think that game got anywhere near enough love.
The artstyle might throw some off, and the underlying nothing story might be a bit sappy, but the movement and progression fucking ruled so hard
https://store.steampowered.com/app/881100/Noita/
A little pricy for an indie game but it goes on sale regularly too.
I’m playing this at the moment, difficult but great!
I tried the demo of Into the Grid lately. It plays very similarly to Slay the Spire but with a cyberpunk/netrunner flavour. Bit more freedom in the character customisation, map layout is still RNG but you have more choice about how to approach it. The demo should give you a pretty good idea if its your kind of thing.
Hey this looks sick
hell yeah roguelites, here’s a list of action ones since i don’t have any turn-based ones under my belt to recommend
Risk of Rain, Enter the Gungeon, Wizard of Legend, Nuclear Throne, Crypt of the Necrodancer (actually this one technically has a turn-based mode if you play as Bard, otherwise it’s a rhythm game)
Have you tried Hades? I actually enjoy all of the games by that studio (even Pyre) but Hades & Bastion are for sure their biggest hits.
Void Stranger is indie as fuuuuuck and good if you enjoy the so called “metroidbrainia” genre and figuring out oblique puzzles.
UFO50
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio!
Death Road to Canada is a fun indie zombie version of oregon trail
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell roguelike i really like, the enemies are all bullets and guns, and there is a bunch of diferent guns, its fun
Katana Zero is one of my favorite indie games, its an action-platformer about a dude with the ability to slow down time, also the free DLC is totally coming this year i have faith
Shovel Knight is the classic indie platformer its very good
Terraria is a fun 2d minecraft with rpg elements
Nubby’s Number Factory is a really fun and chill game
Also i havent play it but Starsector, is a 2d game about managing a Spaceship (or even fleet) and dealing with trade, exploration and battles, seems pretty fun its like the Real Time Strategy version of FTL, its not on steam plus its still in development but it looks pretty finished
I love the thousand-hour games, stuff like Kerbal Space Program, Rimworld, and Factorio
im gonna sit here n plug for supergiant games, and pretty much their whole catalog. I personally think playin their games in order of release is a neat experience cause you get to see them as a studio steadily improve at their craft. bastion to transistor to pyre to hades to hades 2. though if not particularly interested by that, hades 2 is about to get its 1.0 release after being in early access for awhile and is already quite a fantastic game
