This video has such a great concept. I love seeing the progression of the game design. You can really see how these games build on each other when they’re all lined up like
Olexa, your content is just insane lately. Keep it up man. I know the Wheel of Isaac is behind you, but I'm so glad it is. This stuff is really innovative, just like the Wheel of Isaac was. I love it.
Re: Dicey Dungeon being the first dice-based Roguelite, Tharsis came out a few years earlier in 2016. Not sure if it was the first but it was pretty good itself.
I hope Ben is able to complete revita 2.0 now that the Publishers was like "Ok... maybe you can push 2.0. Maybe..." Here's hoping they let him.. Edit 47:47 Him hugging that Super Secret wall and not noticing XD He does shoot it but after everything died. Edit 2: 54:30 Super Secret only has the particles on the wall, as you can see in my previous edit. If you shoot the SS Wall, sounds like you're hurting an enemy. There's no music XD
@@m5giora Ben never wanted to cancel 2.0, so...yes, they decided to try making 2.0 at least for PC for now, then Switch, other consoles and then Opera GX. It's not 100% possible, but 2.0 is definitely more possible now.
@@misticalinteractiveThanks. Seems my reply was eatten up as I also linked to the tweet and UA-cam (or Olexa) was like "Nah" and deleted it. But yeah. Here's hoping they at least let the PC crew get 2.0
@@KitoBallard Indeed. I hope it will be a huge success, maybe it will come at least for Switch if they will be able to proceed making the game for all problems outside of PC, otherwise PC only is fine.
The jump from Rogue to Pokemon: MD, is... huge. Not an attack, but the title made me think there would be more, since you skipped like 2 stages (or more) of Rogue like/dungeon crawler evolutions.
For sure, it’s a 25 year jump. I don’t know many classic roguelike games though, it’s not my channels specialty. So I wasn’t gonna attempt to pretend I knew them
Oh! I remember some titles! Moria, Hack, and NetHack were some I played personally.. Castle Of The Winds was on everyone's home PC. I see a lot of sources talking up Angband, but I never heard of it, so how big could it have been, really? ;-) There was a dry spell of video games in the late 80s that Nintendo and Sierra barely pulled us out of. A good friend of the family has been trying to tell us about Caves Of Qud for a year or so, but I have no context.
Honestly I prefer this, hearing about about YOUR experiences with these games, as opposed you reading a synopsis off of wikipedia about a bunch of games you haven’t played or, is 100% preferred- I’m only like a 1/4 through the video so far and I’m loving it!
Technically it's a pretty minor jump since MD games are actually mechanically extremely similar to Rogue in many ways that other traditional roguelikes aren't thanks to Mystery Dungeon games seemingly being inspired by the game Rogue as it was without the awareness of it trying to emulate D&D and falling short of it in various ways like having just a single attribute called Strength instead of tons of them and not having classes or detailed character creation. Personally I think those "failings" make the game better(higher focus on items and monsters instead of your character build) and thus find most Mystery Dungeon style roguelikes quite interesting.
I cannot remember when it released but DungeonCrawl: Stone Soup and NetHack are probably some of the more well known roguelikes in style of the OG game!
What a great idea. You missed a couple things between 1980 and 2005. Games like Nethack (or ADOM) are important to what roguelikes have evolved from. And some sai that Diablo was the first realtime roguelike.
@@isitanos and I forgot one of the most fundamental game to the current form of rogues: Microprrose version of Magic the Gathering. Roguelike landcrawler dungeoncrawler RPG deckbuilder (for the adventure mode). Still can't believe Hasbro hasn't tried to revive that game.
The time jump between Rogue and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon hurt me :( less of a trip through roguelike history and more of a trip through modern roguelikes you like lol
@@The_snicker ignoring everything from before it got mainstream success is ridiculous, you're ignoring the entire foundation of the genre just because it started out niche and only got mainstream appeal recently
Isn't the difference between RogueLITE and RogueLIKE that LITE you play over and over again but still have progresa saved in the form of unlockable content. LIKES are the same as Rogue, you die, you reset, nothing gets saved
Not really. The proper definition is that roguelikes must be turn based, ascii based, top down dungeoncrawlers. But there’s so many definitions out there that I find it easier to just call anything remotely of the genre, a roguelike
This is literally only 1/3 of the community’s definition of what these are. I simply just don’t care to bother and call them all roguelikes. I have not wavered on this opinion in like 3 years. Lol.
It also just like, doesn’t matter at all? It’s just a word. 99% of my viewers don’t care and click on anything with roguelike in the title. When I used to use roguelite and cared about this song and dance years ago, everybody instead told me to just use roguelike because the distinctions were too confusing. Fast forward 4 years and the same 20 people yell at me in every video. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ can’t win
@nokstella5 bro. Why are you so adamant on this? Just watch his videos for entertainment or don't say anything if it makes you look stupid. Who tf cares?
I have to say this was such a wonderful idea traversing the history of roguelikes with such a fun mechanic. Absolute banger video thank you for creating it!
The thing that reminds me of Northernlion is that he basically talks like Northernlion lol. "We take those" "He's insane" "Search me". Clearly he is inspired by him, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Just thought it was interesting.
i love this series man for me as a new rougelike gamer finding games is fairly easy thanks to you cant wait for another episode from this series keep up the work (new fav youtuber on YT just saying)
Mandatory "Magic Survival was the game that inspired Vampire Survivors but was a mobile android only game so it was much less popular", but I do think they're both really fun games.
Oh, first Internet Historian and now Tyler delivers with a well made documentary. Is it X-Mas? Great content, entertaining, fascinating. Thank you very much! May your hands begin to glow red and your weapon vorpalize ... **g**
Great to see mystery dungeon on here, it was my very first roguelike (i bought it by accident because i thought it was a regular pokemon game) But i instantly fell in love with the gameplay loop
I'd love to see more of the games with a "everytime I lose or die the game changes" series as well. It helps games where you either can't get hit or where hits are expected to shine more.
Hit me with nostalgia when Binding of Isaac came up. Got it on steam, got hundreds of hours in it, even completed the Wrath of the Lamb, and loved the game, still do, tho now more time has been put into Binding of Isaac Repentence
I'm absolutely fell in love with roguelikes, probably my first roguelike it's isaac, but i long time play this type of genr even without knowing this is an separate game genre xD What a discovery for me after i realize it. Have 500+ hours only in dead cells and never get bored. Also a great video, instant like
One of the games I discovered was a roguelike was Elona. I was looking for free games back in college, and stumbled upon a hard as nails RPG with all sorts of weird things like mana storms that caused mutations, and classes like Pianist and Farmer, which I was not expecting in an RPG. This was around the late 2000s, but I rediscovered the game recently and hope to get more into it (I sucked back then haha).
'Roguelike' in the title should have been 'Roguelite,' they're extremely different genres, and only 3 roguelikes actually appeared in this video (Rogue, Pokemon: Mystery Dungeon, Crypt of the Necrodancer). this is especially considering roguelikes are inherently a genre where avoiding hits is practically impossible, with the combat being turn-based instead of real-time. for future reference, a roguelike is a game that, as the name implies, is LIKE the game ROGUE. while rogueLITES only harbor a couple minor features from the genre (random generation, permadeath), rogueLIKES are games that are extremely similar to the game Rogue. to elaborate, this includes essential features such as: having turn-based combat, being locked to a tile-based grid, and being non-modal (as in, any action can be taken at any time). i would highly recommend playing roguelikes, as they are a very unique genre with gaming experiences you won't find anywhere else, especially in the modern day. such as: NetHack (Brutal, unforgiving, the gold standard for the Roguelike genre) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, colloquially known as dcss (Another amazing standard-setting entry in the genre, simple to get into yet still as heinously difficult to conquer as ever) Tales of Maj'Eyal, otherwise known as TOME Ancient Domains of Mystery, also known as ADOM DoomRL (Very simple to get into yet still remaining traditional, would highly recommend this as a starting point for people new to the genre) Caves of Qud, or CoQ (My favorite roguelike of all time, extremely fun and full of depth -- with a wonderful tileset that is simultaneously terminal-based while also being highly legible and non-offensive to the eyes, would also highly recommend this one) Jupiter Hell (A modern take on the genre by the developer of DoomRL, the most abstracted roguelike I've ever seen, its smooth 3D graphics will make you forget you're even playing a traditional roguelike) i'm probably forgetting something important here, but whatever
Yes, but as a society, most people don’t know what a roguelite is and most people think all roguelites are roguelikes so for SEO in my titles, roguelike is better for views. I actually put a poll on Twitter yesterday for if people know the difference between roguelikes and roguelites and around 55% have no clue. So as a creator, to optimize my SEO, I have to use roguelike. Sorry if that’s frustrating to you.
@@OlexaYTtechnically all Roguelites are Roguelikes soooo you're not exactly wrong to call them such. All Roguelike means is a game vaguely similar to rogue.
Great concept, but I'm a bit disappointed that you skipped through 25 years of roguelikes. The genre wasn't the most prolific before the 2000s, but there is some games worth talking about. Fatal Labyrinth, Taloon's Great Adventure, Azure Dreams, UnReal World...
Here are some games that I think should make the list, as someone who just got started in the genre, to be fair. Into the Breach is revolutionary not just to Roguelikes but to tactical RPGs. You can actually beat it in your first try if you stop for a second and decipher the language of the game from the start. Hades is a revolutionary game because it brings an actually really good story that makes sense and gives a good excuse to the procedural generation of the dungeons, not to mention doing a lot for meta progression. I would say Astral Ascent should be mentioned but I haven't played it myself just yet
the one game i was missing is BPM: Bullets per minute. a rithym- Egoshooter- Roughlike heavily inspired by binding of isaac. while being a very fast paced egoshooter it stilll is a fully fledged roughlike
@@OlexaYT Probably both. the thing bringing me to Isaac is the whole system with the keys, giving floors random curses and... idk... the vibe? i know, it sounds stupid, but i played all of those 3 games for longer than i probably should have, and BPM feels to me kinda like somone trying to make Isaac into a ego-shooter, that loved te concept of Necrodancer... kinda... or something like that. its hard to describe. but still, loved your vid. keep up the awesomeness
Technically vampire survivors was a reskin of magic survival. Kinda wish that was ported well to pc so it could have gotten a showcase as it's genuinely pretty good as the true progenitor of the "*** survivor/survival" bullet heaven rogue lites.
Finally someone else knows Magic Survival! I think they're both really fun games, but I am a bit irritated every time someone says that Vampire Survivors was the first.
@@floralfires yeah, Vampire iterated on a lot of the mechanics and ideas over time, but I can't help but find Magic Survival more satisfying to dump an hour into.
Yessss I love these types of videos from you! I do want to shout out the mobile game Magic Survival, which as far as I'm aware, it the origin of the bullet heaven genre. Having played it years before Vamp Survivors came out, it's never sat right with me that Vamp became the de facto father of the genre. It's so cool that after all these years, devs are still finding ways to revolutionize this genre
14:30 "Rogue Legacy revolutionized the genre with a new mechanic, metaprogession. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move"
I would have wished you'd also cover Lufia 2's rogulelike mode (which would have fit inbetween rogue and mystery dungeon), I loved that game growing up and it was my introduction to rougelike-y stuff. (though I guess it being turn based RPG combat would have meant it would have ended as soon as any battle starts)
Little Noah needs a spot on this list ( ,,･ิω･ิ,, ) It has its really own amazing spin on Roguelike being Very Hard/+/++/+++ along with a unique combat system of using these little spirits called Liliputs to reorder and chain attacks in orders to play differently and even has a Hell Mode which is essentially a No Hit mode, Bosh Rush, etc. Cygames did an amazing job on the game.
And the jarring jumps of genre at the start of the video is why permadeath platformers and roguelike are absolutely different things. Call them rogue*lites*
@@Myntical That's not a bad point. Most of which is called roguelite nowadays is just arcade games with metaprogression. Which is completely different from the original rogue. Perhaps Arcade game should be the term?
Rogue-thingys are like learning how to cook and every time you make something crappy, you get new ingredients and a better recipe. Eventually you'll be making creme brule
There's a not very well known roguelike that I'd really love for you to spotlight some time called Wally and the Fantastic Predators! It's fast-paced and absolutely overflowing with cute charm!
37:00 try Slice and Dice, It's an amazing dice roguelike, which is surprisingly themost complex roguelike I've ever played. (I would say even more complex then Noita, yes, it's that complex)
fun fact 1980s rouge is where rougelike as a genre got its namebut the actual first rougelike was made in 1978 called Beneath Apple Manor the first retail rougelike even being that games sequel
You were talking about how accessible vampire survivors is to play and then you got the elite chest and I went to click my screen to open it and was like oh sheet Well played
This video illustrated very well for me that, indeed, I cannot play rogue-likes/lites much to save my life haha But I do enjoy watching other people play a game I would otherwise have no possibility of seeing on my own!
Fantastic video, I'll have to try out Revita as you're given it so much praise! The art style looks great. Not sure what you meant by using health as a currency in Hollow Knight as I don't remember that being a mechanic, however. Can't wait to see more from you!
Hey there. Pro CotN player here. you made many mistakes and i am here to explain how to fix them, first things first disable the heart at the bottom of the screen, secondly you can dig walls to skip beats while keeping your combo, this is important to note while playing as aria or coda who instantly die if they miss a beat, and thirdly you should always check the store even if you cant afford anything.
This video has such a great concept. I love seeing the progression of the game design. You can really see how these games build on each other when they’re all lined up like
Olexa, your content is just insane lately. Keep it up man. I know the Wheel of Isaac is behind you, but I'm so glad it is. This stuff is really innovative, just like the Wheel of Isaac was. I love it.
Re: Dicey Dungeon being the first dice-based Roguelite, Tharsis came out a few years earlier in 2016. Not sure if it was the first but it was pretty good itself.
This is a great video, really cool seeing how the genre has shifted and evolved over time. Been absolutely loving all the videos lately :)
I hope Ben is able to complete revita 2.0 now that the Publishers was like "Ok... maybe you can push 2.0. Maybe..." Here's hoping they let him..
Edit 47:47 Him hugging that Super Secret wall and not noticing XD He does shoot it but after everything died.
Edit 2: 54:30 Super Secret only has the particles on the wall, as you can see in my previous edit. If you shoot the SS Wall, sounds like you're hurting an enemy. There's no music XD
I had only heard that Ben had cancelled all plans for 2.0, but you're saying there is hope?!
@@m5giora Ben never wanted to cancel 2.0, so...yes, they decided to try making 2.0 at least for PC for now, then Switch, other consoles and then Opera GX. It's not 100% possible, but 2.0 is definitely more possible now.
@@misticalinteractiveThanks. Seems my reply was eatten up as I also linked to the tweet and UA-cam (or Olexa) was like "Nah" and deleted it. But yeah. Here's hoping they at least let the PC crew get 2.0
@@KitoBallard Indeed. I hope it will be a huge success, maybe it will come at least for Switch if they will be able to proceed making the game for all problems outside of PC, otherwise PC only is fine.
Ooh thats a "good" news. Last thing I saw was that 2.0 was just cancelled. I hope ben will release it on pc! I love that game so much
Olexa this video has superb editing. Really enjoyed it, keep up the good work
The jump from Rogue to Pokemon: MD, is... huge. Not an attack, but the title made me think there would be more, since you skipped like 2 stages (or more) of Rogue like/dungeon crawler evolutions.
For sure, it’s a 25 year jump. I don’t know many classic roguelike games though, it’s not my channels specialty. So I wasn’t gonna attempt to pretend I knew them
Oh! I remember some titles! Moria, Hack, and NetHack were some I played personally.. Castle Of The Winds was on everyone's home PC. I see a lot of sources talking up Angband, but I never heard of it, so how big could it have been, really? ;-) There was a dry spell of video games in the late 80s that Nintendo and Sierra barely pulled us out of. A good friend of the family has been trying to tell us about Caves Of Qud for a year or so, but I have no context.
Honestly I prefer this, hearing about about YOUR experiences with these games, as opposed you reading a synopsis off of wikipedia about a bunch of games you haven’t played or, is 100% preferred-
I’m only like a 1/4 through the video so far and I’m loving it!
Technically it's a pretty minor jump since MD games are actually mechanically extremely similar to Rogue in many ways that other traditional roguelikes aren't thanks to Mystery Dungeon games seemingly being inspired by the game Rogue as it was without the awareness of it trying to emulate D&D and falling short of it in various ways like having just a single attribute called Strength instead of tons of them and not having classes or detailed character creation.
Personally I think those "failings" make the game better(higher focus on items and monsters instead of your character build) and thus find most Mystery Dungeon style roguelikes quite interesting.
I cannot remember when it released but DungeonCrawl: Stone Soup and NetHack are probably some of the more well known roguelikes in style of the OG game!
What a great idea. You missed a couple things between 1980 and 2005. Games like Nethack (or ADOM) are important to what roguelikes have evolved from.
And some sai that Diablo was the first realtime roguelike.
ARPGs are definitely the first wave of roguelites. Diablo was extremely similar to classic roguelikes, besides the real-time aspect.
@@isitanos and I forgot one of the most fundamental game to the current form of rogues: Microprrose version of Magic the Gathering. Roguelike landcrawler dungeoncrawler RPG deckbuilder (for the adventure mode). Still can't believe Hasbro hasn't tried to revive that game.
The time jump between Rogue and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon hurt me :( less of a trip through roguelike history and more of a trip through modern roguelikes you like lol
It’s more the most influential roguelites over the last 20 years more or less. With a sprinkling of the history at the beginning
Exactly what I thought as soon as I looked at chapters
Could've been interesting to see how we got here, but alas
Yeah it's clearly made by someone who doesn't respect the actual history of roguelikes
@@cleverman383dude it is supposed to be an evolution of the most impactful roguelikes over the years
@@The_snicker ignoring everything from before it got mainstream success is ridiculous, you're ignoring the entire foundation of the genre just because it started out niche and only got mainstream appeal recently
52:00 *chooses an item that decreases negative results from taking dmg while not being able TO TAKE DAMMAGE* I can't lmao
Man I don't even want to know how much time it took you to edit this all together. Just amazing work, great job.
this is actually crazy dude, huge props
Isn't the difference between RogueLITE and RogueLIKE that LITE you play over and over again but still have progresa saved in the form of unlockable content. LIKES are the same as Rogue, you die, you reset, nothing gets saved
Not really. The proper definition is that roguelikes must be turn based, ascii based, top down dungeoncrawlers. But there’s so many definitions out there that I find it easier to just call anything remotely of the genre, a roguelike
This is literally only 1/3 of the community’s definition of what these are. I simply just don’t care to bother and call them all roguelikes. I have not wavered on this opinion in like 3 years. Lol.
It also just like, doesn’t matter at all? It’s just a word. 99% of my viewers don’t care and click on anything with roguelike in the title. When I used to use roguelite and cared about this song and dance years ago, everybody instead told me to just use roguelike because the distinctions were too confusing. Fast forward 4 years and the same 20 people yell at me in every video. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ can’t win
@@nokstella5shut up nerd
@nokstella5 bro. Why are you so adamant on this? Just watch his videos for entertainment or don't say anything if it makes you look stupid. Who tf cares?
Absolutely love the videos where you play multiple roguelikes! I love the unique idea for this one.
This is honestly such a cool video. I’m not exactly a usual channel watcher, but this is exceptional and deserves a subscription ^^
If anyone had a Sega, then Fatal Labyrinth might have been your first Roguelike.
I have to say this was such a wonderful idea traversing the history of roguelikes with such a fun mechanic.
Absolute banger video thank you for creating it!
The amount of references in this video reminds me of Northernlion! Keep up the amazing work; excellent video!
The thing that reminds me of Northernlion is that he basically talks like Northernlion lol. "We take those" "He's insane" "Search me". Clearly he is inspired by him, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Just thought it was interesting.
Id like to thank you for helping showing interesting roguelikes and helping me find my new favorite genre
i love this series man for me as a new rougelike gamer finding games is fairly easy thanks to you cant wait for another episode from this series keep up the work (new fav youtuber on YT just saying)
Mandatory "Magic Survival was the game that inspired Vampire Survivors but was a mobile android only game so it was much less popular", but I do think they're both really fun games.
Oh, first Internet Historian and now Tyler delivers with a well made documentary. Is it X-Mas?
Great content, entertaining, fascinating. Thank you very much!
May your hands begin to glow red and your weapon vorpalize ... **g**
you saying "I do not have the public key OR the private key" in that tone made me subscribe lol
Great to see mystery dungeon on here, it was my very first roguelike (i bought it by accident because i thought it was a regular pokemon game)
But i instantly fell in love with the gameplay loop
I did the exact same thing as a kid! Made this game all the more special in the long run
I'd love to see more of the games with a "everytime I lose or die the game changes" series as well. It helps games where you either can't get hit or where hits are expected to shine more.
35:17 that was comedy gold lol. In fairness I totally thought you would get orb slots too. Great video
This dude is basically SouthernLion
LMAO. We take those.
crypt of the necrodancer is so stressful to watch lol
What a great video idea, absolutely love your roguelike summary.
Also, I _think_ the chickens in gungeon appeared because of the magic bullets.
Hearing the FTL music in the beginning brought peace to my soul
It’s just the best
Hit me with nostalgia when Binding of Isaac came up. Got it on steam, got hundreds of hours in it, even completed the Wrath of the Lamb, and loved the game, still do, tho now more time has been put into Binding of Isaac Repentence
Tyler taking an item that makes hits less detrimental while doing a challenge where he can’t take hits is so on brnad
While saying he doesn't need items like that.
You losing to fall damage in Risk of Rain 2 made laugh to hard... especially after dodging all those fireballs and lasers
This is truly the most rogue-like video format ever.
Damn, that FTL music got me nostalgic af
Ya love to see it man. Such an amazing genre. Great list of games here to showcase. Cheers!
I love Crypt of the Necrodancer so much! I'm glad you played at least some of it.
"I never played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon when it came out, I was like 6"
Dude that's the target audience
rogue to pokemon was a pretty big jump
Watching you play Revita again hit me right in the feels
I know we’ll be back when 2.0 drops copium
@@OlexaYT Ah sweet! I thought Ben had abandoned all hope of releasing that?
There’s a chance it releases for PC
@@OlexaYTHere's to hoping.
This is an epic concept, and a great job presenting it.
We really jumped from Rogue to Mystery Dungeon straight into Spelunky 💀💀 not even Nethack or Angband
"Choke her? I hardly know 'er! ....that one has interesting implications I'm going to ignore at this time." -wheeze-
I'm absolutely fell in love with roguelikes, probably my first roguelike it's isaac, but i long time play this type of genr even without knowing this is an separate game genre xD What a discovery for me after i realize it. Have 500+ hours only in dead cells and never get bored. Also a great video, instant like
One of the games I discovered was a roguelike was Elona. I was looking for free games back in college, and stumbled upon a hard as nails RPG with all sorts of weird things like mana storms that caused mutations, and classes like Pianist and Farmer, which I was not expecting in an RPG. This was around the late 2000s, but I rediscovered the game recently and hope to get more into it (I sucked back then haha).
This reminds me of my first roguelike, Soul Knight. It was similar to Nuclear Throne and Gungeon, but goddamn it was a fun introduction to the genre.
What a fun idea for a video. Keep up the amazing work =)
"Choker? I hardly know her!"
Olexa, have you heard of Caves of Qud? I looked on your channel but saw now videos of it. Or ToME for that matter.
Haven’t played no. Maybe some time
'Roguelike' in the title should have been 'Roguelite,' they're extremely different genres, and only 3 roguelikes actually appeared in this video (Rogue, Pokemon: Mystery Dungeon, Crypt of the Necrodancer).
this is especially considering roguelikes are inherently a genre where avoiding hits is practically impossible, with the combat being turn-based instead of real-time.
for future reference, a roguelike is a game that, as the name implies, is LIKE the game ROGUE. while rogueLITES only harbor a couple minor features from the genre (random generation, permadeath), rogueLIKES are games that are extremely similar to the game Rogue. to elaborate, this includes essential features such as: having turn-based combat, being locked to a tile-based grid, and being non-modal (as in, any action can be taken at any time).
i would highly recommend playing roguelikes, as they are a very unique genre with gaming experiences you won't find anywhere else, especially in the modern day.
such as:
NetHack (Brutal, unforgiving, the gold standard for the Roguelike genre)
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, colloquially known as dcss (Another amazing standard-setting entry in the genre, simple to get into yet still as heinously difficult to conquer as ever)
Tales of Maj'Eyal, otherwise known as TOME
Ancient Domains of Mystery, also known as ADOM
DoomRL (Very simple to get into yet still remaining traditional, would highly recommend this as a starting point for people new to the genre)
Caves of Qud, or CoQ (My favorite roguelike of all time, extremely fun and full of depth -- with a wonderful tileset that is simultaneously terminal-based while also being highly legible and non-offensive to the eyes, would also highly recommend this one)
Jupiter Hell (A modern take on the genre by the developer of DoomRL, the most abstracted roguelike I've ever seen, its smooth 3D graphics will make you forget you're even playing a traditional roguelike)
i'm probably forgetting something important here, but whatever
Yes, but as a society, most people don’t know what a roguelite is and most people think all roguelites are roguelikes so for SEO in my titles, roguelike is better for views. I actually put a poll on Twitter yesterday for if people know the difference between roguelikes and roguelites and around 55% have no clue. So as a creator, to optimize my SEO, I have to use roguelike. Sorry if that’s frustrating to you.
Cataclysm all the way
@@OlexaYTtechnically all Roguelites are Roguelikes soooo you're not exactly wrong to call them such. All Roguelike means is a game vaguely similar to rogue.
As for Vampire Survivors I feel it has a stong connection to Crimsonland shooter, that i played so much back then...
really cool concept and nice commentary too
The revita glazing is crazy
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@@OlexaYT wdym "??"
Finally a each time I get hit video again
I too hope Revita will actually release 2.0 some day. T.T
This is such a cool idea! Thanks for making this video
Great concept, but I'm a bit disappointed that you skipped through 25 years of roguelikes. The genre wasn't the most prolific before the 2000s, but there is some games worth talking about. Fatal Labyrinth, Taloon's Great Adventure, Azure Dreams, UnReal World...
Unfortunately it’s just not my area of expertise so I stuck with what I know
Risk of Rain 2 is my favorite roguelike of all time. I have clocked over 980 hours.
Here are some games that I think should make the list, as someone who just got started in the genre, to be fair.
Into the Breach is revolutionary not just to Roguelikes but to tactical RPGs. You can actually beat it in your first try if you stop for a second and decipher the language of the game from the start.
Hades is a revolutionary game because it brings an actually really good story that makes sense and gives a good excuse to the procedural generation of the dungeons, not to mention doing a lot for meta progression.
I would say Astral Ascent should be mentioned but I haven't played it myself just yet
the one game i was missing is BPM: Bullets per minute. a rithym- Egoshooter- Roughlike heavily inspired by binding of isaac.
while being a very fast paced egoshooter it stilll is a fully fledged roughlike
I’d argue that Crypt of the Necrodancer was the inspiration for BPM
@@OlexaYT Probably both. the thing bringing me to Isaac is the whole system with the keys, giving floors random curses and... idk... the vibe?
i know, it sounds stupid, but i played all of those 3 games for longer than i probably should have, and BPM feels to me kinda like somone trying to make Isaac into a ego-shooter, that loved te concept of Necrodancer... kinda... or something like that. its hard to describe.
but still, loved your vid. keep up the awesomeness
The FTL OST hit me deep brother… Respect!
This just overlooked actual roguelikes such as Doom RL and Jupiter Hell.
There’s thousands of roguelikes out there. This video cannot cover every single one
@@OlexaYT I get that but other than the genre's namesake, there's no mention of the games that are actually in the same category as rogue.
Yup, my channel is not a traditional roguelike channel. It’s a generic roguelike channel for the modern overarching definition
Technically vampire survivors was a reskin of magic survival. Kinda wish that was ported well to pc so it could have gotten a showcase as it's genuinely pretty good as the true progenitor of the "*** survivor/survival" bullet heaven rogue lites.
Finally someone else knows Magic Survival! I think they're both really fun games, but I am a bit irritated every time someone says that Vampire Survivors was the first.
@@floralfires yeah, Vampire iterated on a lot of the mechanics and ideas over time, but I can't help but find Magic Survival more satisfying to dump an hour into.
Vampire survivors is on so many things my car center console has it on there.
Yessss I love these types of videos from you! I do want to shout out the mobile game Magic Survival, which as far as I'm aware, it the origin of the bullet heaven genre. Having played it years before Vamp Survivors came out, it's never sat right with me that Vamp became the de facto father of the genre. It's so cool that after all these years, devs are still finding ways to revolutionize this genre
14:30 "Rogue Legacy revolutionized the genre with a new mechanic, metaprogession. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move"
You sir, are overqualified. I love it.
theres a minesweeper roguelike called demoncrawl, you should check it out, its my fav one
Yup we’ve played a lotttt of it on the channel
Oh wow, never would've realized pokemon mystery dungeon was a roguelite.
I think you forgot Dungeons of Dredmor
I would have wished you'd also cover Lufia 2's rogulelike mode (which would have fit inbetween rogue and mystery dungeon), I loved that game growing up and it was my introduction to rougelike-y stuff.
(though I guess it being turn based RPG combat would have meant it would have ended as soon as any battle starts)
Little Noah needs a spot on this list ( ,,･ิω･ิ,, ) It has its really own amazing spin on Roguelike being Very Hard/+/++/+++ along with a unique combat system of using these little spirits called Liliputs to reorder and chain attacks in orders to play differently and even has a Hell Mode which is essentially a No Hit mode, Bosh Rush, etc. Cygames did an amazing job on the game.
It would be nice seeing you play Noita
And the jarring jumps of genre at the start of the video is why permadeath platformers and roguelike are absolutely different things. Call them rogue*lites*
Quite literally exactly what I said at the start of the video 🥴
Rogue “like” and “lite” are too similar sounding that the distinction in difference is pointless if nobody casually understands which ones which tho?
@@Myntical That's not a bad point. Most of which is called roguelite nowadays is just arcade games with metaprogression. Which is completely different from the original rogue. Perhaps Arcade game should be the term?
Rogue-thingys are like learning how to cook and every time you make something crappy, you get new ingredients and a better recipe. Eventually you'll be making creme brule
Dead Cells is the RL that was the first one and it was perfect with The Bad Seed DLC
There's a not very well known roguelike that I'd really love for you to spotlight some time called Wally and the Fantastic Predators! It's fast-paced and absolutely overflowing with cute charm!
Skul: the hero slay is also how i find a reealy underrated good 2d platformer rogue like with interesting mechanics and much content.
If you like Skul, you’ll love Space Gladiators or Revita. I wasn’t a huge fan of Skul, found it too repetitive and slow
@@OlexaYT thanks to you 5 minutes roguelike games video, i already bought revita and really like it ^^
"yea i expected it would be rouge, oh wow he didnt instantly get hi- oh nevermin- IS THAT FUCKING MYSTERY DUNGEON"
37:00 try Slice and Dice, It's an amazing dice roguelike, which is surprisingly themost complex roguelike I've ever played. (I would say even more complex then Noita, yes, it's that complex)
(I have a whole series on my channel)
fun fact 1980s rouge is where rougelike as a genre got its namebut the actual first rougelike was made in 1978 called Beneath Apple Manor the first retail rougelike even being that games sequel
You were talking about how accessible vampire survivors is to play and then you got the elite chest and I went to click my screen to open it and was like oh sheet
Well played
The temptation to try Revita after watching this video-
51:55
>doing a no hit run
>takes a thing based on taking hits
😂
This video illustrated very well for me that, indeed, I cannot play rogue-likes/lites much to save my life haha But I do enjoy watching other people play a game I would otherwise have no possibility of seeing on my own!
For those wondering, magic bullets adds a small chance to turn hit enemies into chickens.
damn mystery dungeon takes me back
You skipped the entire history of roguelike - when the entire thing developed - from 1980 to 2005 :-(
Unfortunately I was not even a fetus during most of that. My channels focus is on the modern roguelike game
Fantastic video, I'll have to try out Revita as you're given it so much praise! The art style looks great.
Not sure what you meant by using health as a currency in Hollow Knight as I don't remember that being a mechanic, however.
Can't wait to see more from you!
It’s the healing mechanic in hollow knight, not the currency
Brotato is my favourite rogue
Very clever video idea
Alien’s rock and Olexa would be amazing!
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yo early too you should do more but it gets popular each time you get hit like blinding of Isaac to hades to whatever is next
He did it. He actually touched the flash version of Isaac Oo
Brilliant idea! I'm a little disappointed you just skipped 25 years of game making history though xD
Dont know if you looks at this game or not but bio prototype would be a game to check out
I feel like One Way Heroics Plus probably would have been a better representation than PMD lol.
I wish brutal orchestra was here... oh well. Great video
Great game but not revolutionary in the genre
True
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Cool video idea! Keep going!😊