Roguelike
34 games reviewed, ranked by score.
Slay the Spire
The Deckbuilder That Started It All Still Holds
Balatro
150 jokers and zero off-ramps
Into the Breach
Three Mechs, Eight-By-Eight Grid, Endless Tactical Knots
Against the Storm
Settlements built to be abandoned, and you keep founding more
FTL: Faster Than Light
Twelve years of rerouted shields and panicked airlocks
Hades
The Roguelike That Made Death Worth Repeating
Slay the Spire 2
More Spire, Sharper Spire, Still Unfinished Spire
Hades II
Supergiant Sharpens Its Roguelike Until Only Story Drags
Monster Train 2
Leaves no reason to ride the first train again
Heat Signature
Spaceship heists where every mistake becomes a story
Inscryption
A deckbuilder that won't sit still, for better and worse
Monster Train
Slay theSpire's formula, rebuilt as a train engine
Pronoun Palace
Spell your way out of a state that confiscated your pronouns
Shogun Showdown
Into the Breach's brain, Slay the Spire's pull
StarVaders
Chrono Tokens Turn Tactical Deckbuilding Into Chess on Steroids
Darkest Dungeon
The Best Stress Simulator Ever Built
Vampire Survivors
Five Euros for the Genre's Founding Snowball
Mini Motorways
Simple rules, traffic-induced rage, and one more city
Backpack Battles
Tetris with bloodlust, and you can't stop arranging
Across the Obelisk
Co-op deckbuilder where the debuff stack breaks the fight
Griftlands
Negotiation gets its own deck, and it cuts deeper
He is Coming
An auto battler that hides real strategy under retro paint
BALL x PIT
Breakout Fused With Vampire Survivors, And It Sticks
DAVE THE DIVER
A Circus of Minigames That Somehow Holds Together
LONESTAR
Make Your Number Bigger Has Never Felt This Deep
Dome Keeper
Dig, defend, repeat: the perfect 30-minute itch
Loop Hero
A Brilliant Loop That Eventually Devours Itself
Lost Castle 2
Hundreds of weapons, one game-ending boss softlock
Gordian Quest
Deckbuilder Depth Buried Under D&D Sprawl
Stacklands
Drag a villager onto a berry bush and lose an evening
The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome
Generations of kung-fu builds, walled behind no tutorial
EVERSPACE
Gorgeous space roguelike that mistakes grind for difficulty
Unrailed 2: Back on Track
Glorious with three friends, hollow with bots and stutter
Breachway
Modular ships reshape your deck mid-run. The balance doesn't hold.