ProZD: Stardew is dangerously addictive, I have 255 hours on it and it will consume your life Me, with 255 hours on multiple individual saves: So fucking real
More Balatro videos would always be great. Like many, I was one who had never even heard of Balatro till it got a bunch of TGA nominations, then downloaded the game out of curiosity and had it consume all my free time. One of the best roguelites I've ever played with a BANGER earworm of a OST.
Balatro is to the 2020's what Touhou was to the 2000's and Undertale was to the 2010's: a game that took the world by storm, made by just one guy with nothing but a dream and the determination to make the best game ever.
tbf they are heavily biased for getting large amounts of hours, sure, you can do thousands in skyrim and other RPGs too but loads of single player games, even RPGs, that aren't roguelikes don't end up in long play times or replay-ability
@@diediedie649 online games ofc can rake in huge hours, I have 7.5k in dota or some shit. a lot harder to make a single player with no online fan content at all do that.
You should definitely get UFO 50. There are a lot of games in there you might like but particularly for Party House. You will fall in love with Party House. It's a deck builder where the "deck" is a list of party guests you have on call, and you have to try throw the best party ever in 25 turns using those guests.
Recettear is so good and it's crazy seeing how many games tried to do a similar concept (running an item shop + dungeon diving) that wasn't nearly as fleshed out. Still had so much room for improvement and hope to see a some kind of sequel that just builds on some of the mechanics
@ He hasn't announced a release yet, but I'm optimistic that this is going to come out sooner rather then later. He's already been working on it in the background for a bit now. Stardew took about 4 years to release, and for that he had to spend a lot of time redoing graphics and stuff which he hopefully won't have to do this time now that he has more developing experience.
I'm so shocked to see it brought up again! It really is a ton of fun but I always felt sad it kind of missed the new golden age of run-based games we're going through.
I would recommend Dicey Dungeons. It’s a Roguelike-deckbuilding game where you play as different dice, and they all have different play styles. Very cute artstyle and fun flavor text. It’s the only game I’ve 100%-ed on steam.
I got a recommendation for a game called Cobalt Core since you love Slay the Spire. It's got a similar gameplay loop, but the idea is that you are controlling a group of kobolds that are on a spaceship, stuck in a timeloop. It's got the same deck building as StS, but the gameplay is more about making sure you do the right positioning with your ship, planning against how your opponent will act next turn. You pick a crew of three different characters, who each have their own pool of cards you can build your deck from over the course of the run like the different classes in StS.
I second the Cobalt Core recommendation. The combination of 3 characters per run and unique location sensitive combat system for a deck builder was a blast.
Been playing cobalt core a lot lately! I'm in the process of unlocking all the ships but winning a run without the starting pilots is destroying me 😅😭 Has similar vibes to slay the spire with how progression works but hey, if it's not broken don't fix it right? Haha
Wildfrost is a fun deck builder rougelike with a 6v6 arena and every unit has there own ticking timer. What I liked about it is that your permanent buff charms can also be applied to action cards, not just units. like applying 'add weakness' on an card that already target every enemy instead on a 4 turn single hitting unit. This system encourages wacky synergies that are very fun. Also a benefit, it's not too long. A run takes around an hour and half at a relaxed pace and after 30-40 hours you've done pretty much everything it has to offer not including cranking up the difficulty
Wholy shit someone other than me talking about this game! That is huge I had a ton of fun with the 15 ish hours I put into the game. As a card game lover I was addicted to this game for a few days while I played it, def a banger
i clicked on the vid solely to hear you geek out about balatro so YES please make a fully video, i really want to get a deep dive into your perspective as someone who knows it so well
ProZD about Balatro with 351 hours: It's dangerously addictive. Me with over 800 hours in Mount and Blade Warband, Mount and Blade Bannerlord, Crusader Kings 2 and Crusaders Kings 3: Sounds cool, maybe I'll play it before I start my 37th medieval world conquest.
@ Dude Last Days of the Third Age is unironically the best Lord of the Rings video game of all time. Even though I find Bannerlord much better in every way, I still play Warband just to go back to Last Days once in a while, it's probably almost half of my hours on that game.
You should check out FTL: faster than light. Super fun base game with a lot of variety between the ship layouts, weapon load outs, and enemy ships. I think I spent more than 100 hours on it, just with the base game. Then after you beat it a few times, install the multiverse mod and EVERYTHING gets cranked up by a dozen notches. I've got close to 500 hours in it now. And you can drop the game for months, come back, and pick up right where you left off without skipping a beat.
I agree! Having 100%d FTL including an 8 game win streak, I still return to it once in a while. I also would heavily suggest Cobalt Core as a game similar to "what if FTL was a deck builder?" It uses characters like Slay the Spire, but with 3 crew members per run each with their own mechanics, making hundreds of possible crew combinations. The battles involve limited movement and attack location mechanics too, which is what reminds me of FTL.
Seconding, FTL scratched the same itch that Slay the Spire would later scratch. Not a deckbuilder, but assembling a crew and the right weapons and equipment has a very similar feeling. Brilliant game.
I will third/fourth this. FTL is just one of those games that I can come back to and play again and again, and once you think you've had enough, you can download the multiverse mod and it's like a whole new game!
I have had a lot of fun recently with Brotato. Because I liked it a friend suggested I try vampire survivor and i struggled to enjoy vampire. I like Brotato because you have a lot more control over difficulty without compromising achievements and each spud offers a different gear building challenge.
You seem to enjoy the whole aspect of hunting achievements, which is funny considering you list Civ5 as one of you most-played games when Civ5 was actually one of the games that helped me kick my achievement hunting addiction. Because not only is there a "win with this civilization" in a standard game for every civilization, which would be exhausting by itself. But there is also an achievement for winning each scenario with each playable civilization in that scenario, with usually a extra achievement for doing something specific with each civilization in that scenario and can only be done in that scenario. It's just way too excessive, especially when some of those scenarios are just plain not fun or even interesting.
I've loved Civ 5 since I was a kid and my dad introduced me to it and I just recently started looking at the achievements and which ones I wanted to try and get, and you're 100% right, there are so many civs I don't really want to play as just for that achievement and while I personally think the scenarios are cool and could play certain ones multiple times like 1066 and the Mongols, I really can't be bothered to beat the Polynesia one more than once, there's just doesn't seem like a point, and I'm no where near skilled enough for some of the achievements that need to be on high difficulty settings. But I love the game and will probably play until the end of time.
it also has an achievement for winning on each difficulty setting, and you don't get the achievements for easier difficulties if you win on harder settings. And then there's the absolutely stupid raiders of the lost ark achievement
I had trouble with getting enough money when I played, around when it came out, and my run kinda just ended up being fully shop-oriented. Just kinda ignored the dungeon for the latter half of the game. Maybe I'll try again with more dungeon when the remaster comes out.
Mine has to be 2k+ hrs spent in Rimworld. It's the one game on steam including the DLC's is worth every penny in fact it should be worth more. Such a great game
I fckin loooove rimworld. Crashlanded survivors on low-tech world where you gradually build up a colony. Raiders find your base as you accrue wealth so you need to arm your colonists and build defenses. Mostly though, it's a story generator with hilarious interactions between your people. They have mood swings, preferences, unique traits that help or harm or both. Someone who is beautiful will be naturally more liked but an ugly person gets minuses to relationships. Just like irl. Colonists marry, break up, fight each other, are jealous of each other, die and mourn each other, it's such a good story teller.
I think you would really enjoy Peglin!! Basically Peggle but a roguelike and the characters are cute little goblins! Just came out to 1.0 and the different deck or "orb" building you can do is so fun while still dealing with the peggle randomness!
have they done anything with the roguelite elements to make it less vanilla in the past 6 months or so? when i tried it i enjoyed the core gameplay but it sucked as a roguelike bc it was so uninspired and repetitive
Please do a Balatro Retrospective. That accomplishment is mind boggling. Super curious to know your rule of thumbs and favorite jokers. Also, my wife’s list is almost identical to yours so she’s real excited to try out LBAL. She’s been crushing Manor Lords, might want to check out that
Have you tried Holocure? It's a 100% free vampire survivors style game with like 50 characters, all with unique skills and weapons which make their playstyles actually decently varied. the gameplay is excellent, the music is great, the art is great, the side stuff like the fishing minigame, casino, etc are great, and the dev literally refuses to take money for it because he doesn't want his passion project to become another job. respect. it's great, it's the 7th highest rated game on steam I believe, or was until recently at least.
It's a good game but imo it's pretty shallow, you beat the game a few times and nothing really deviates after that. Compared to slay the spire, there's way less decision making
@@autokrft I think the same. Balatro is a really addictive game, and it has a lot of replayability. But Slay the Spire feels so much more like a complete game (with more music, mechanics, synergies, narrative), for me it has even more replayability and it's one of the biggest roguelike role models of all time
I wish I appreciated Balatro as much as everyone else. It's a fun little game, but it didn't snag me like every other card based roguelike I've gotten addicted to in the past.
It either sinks its hooks into you and you play for 100s of hours....or you play for a couple hours and have no idea why people get so insanely addicted.
I haven't played Recettear but if you enjoyed that game you might enjoy Moonlighter. It sounds like Moonlighter was definitely inspired by Recettear, as it's also a game where you go into dungeons and then sell the items you find in your shop. Though perhaps Moonlighter is a more pared down version of that style of game, as I completed it after like 20 hours.
I would definitely recommend Undermine. It's a rougelike game where you descend down into a mine fighting monsters, collecting relics and recipes to make future runs easier and upgrade your gear. The map layouts are randomized so each run is a little different each time!
Balatro is sooo good! With all the deck building games earlier in your list, I'm like.. Oh yeah, Balatro is for sure on this list. Started to get to top 3 and no Balatro yet! When you said 325 hours on Civ5, I was like no way, Balatro isn't even a year old and you surpassed that? Number 1 was revealed and I was like, yeeeees! Balatro is such an amazing and simple game. I should try Luck be a Landlord.
I would love to see a Balatro video from you! I've only put 30 hours in and I sometimes find it more frustrating than fun. Seeing your enthusiasm and interest would be really helpful to me I think.
I wonder if you'd like No Man's Sky, that's my number one "I'm just gonna do ooooone more objective and then I'm calling it a day and OOPS the sun is rising" game right now. It is sci-fi and not about deckbuilding though so your mileage may vary.
I started DOS2 with 4 people and after a few play sessions, decided to play it solo since I didn't understand the story. 255 hours later and its now my favorite game ever. Would highly recommend tactician for a second play through; one of the most rewarding experiences for me right behind FTL.
ufo 50 has a deckbuilding roguelike in it (party house)! its super well made and similar to the quacks of quedlinberg but about hosting parties instead of brewing potions. bonus points for the retro art style, and the other 49 games are great
Three roguelike games similar to Slay the Spire that I have enjoyed lately: Slice and Dice - a dungeon crawl (more a series of battles) where you control a party where each member is represented by a die. You can edit the faces of the dice, cheat luck, and come up with weird broken synergies. Ton of depth to explore. Diceomancer - a heavily StS-influenced card battler. The conceit is it combines cards and dice - you get a magical die that can edit any number on screen, including numbers in the rulebook. The presentation is great, it wears its Magic the Gathering influence on its sleeve (there's a black lotus card, for example), and it really goes for that "breaking the game" feeling where you can take 10 minutes comboing off with your dairy cow deck and beat the boss on the first turn. Cobalt Core - another card based game that does a good job of balancing card battling with a game board where you navigate a spaceship around in a battle. Has a great strategic feel and rewards lots of different play styles.
That's a very nice list of games! I am particularly interested in Recettear and added that to my wish list. I do have some recommendations though some of them are high fantasy theme which I know you mentioned you didn't quite care for. 1. Sun Haven - This is a lot like Stardew Valley but it has a high fantasy theme to it. 2. Age of Wonders 4 - This is a 4x strategy game. There is so much customization to this game and I'm quite addicted. It's kind of like a Civilization game but in a high fantasy theme. 3. Crypt of the Necrodancer - This is a very fun rhythm game and some of the levels are quite hard to beat. At times, it takes a lot of practice and luck to beat some of the bosses. 4. Rabi-Ribi - This is a very cute bullet hell type of game. 5. Astlibra - This is one of my personal favorite 2D action RPG games. I'm quite fond of the story line and characters. 6. Moonlighter - If you like delving into dungeons and selling your loot in your own store, then I highly recommend this game.
A Balatro retrospective sounds like a good time! A game I'd recommend is 'Steamworld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech' It's a deck builder RPG with very fun writing!
11:20 I would strongly recommend INSCRIPTION good story and different deck building mechanics that are similar but change after you get past the first section of story.
@frankjohnson123 you underestimate my low attention span, from permanent 2x speed to skipping minutes at a time, I can watch entire video essays in mere minutes.
@@frankjohnson123 Funny thing is that the only game that's even close to niche is Necettear..... Which is the first one. The rest of the list is three AAA games, and six games that got big enough that they each inspired their own entire genre of clones. This person just commented this while watching the video.
Monster Train is going to tickle your brain 100% it combines deckbuilding, wave survival, and tower defense. There are tons of unlockables, multiple races, deep strategic roguelike gameplay, and just satisfying battles!
@@LightbladeRiulo You're not wrong honestly. 2,100 isn't that much when you take into account other folks who've been playing for 20 years, but it's definitely more than 300 lol
My recommendation would be Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator if you haven’t played it already. The title is very self-explanatory, it’s an alchemist simulator. It has a great art-style and the potion making has you navigating a map to get to different potion effects. Sometimes your customers will ask you to make a potion without or without certain ingredients, and you have to manage a garden of ingredients as well.
We seem to have VERY similar tastes in games, so I would recommend My Life as a Teenage Exocolonist. It's a very replayable deckbuilder with a fun art style and interesting characters. Your choices from run to run can affect your options in future runs, so there always seem to be new paths to take.
I was just about to come down here and recommend this one but I had to recommend inscryption first 😅 I wish more people knew about MLATE, it's a unique story and beautiful art!
When the battle royale genre blew up it was everywhere, but over the last 3 years or so, the rise of Roguelites has gently whispered across the gaming landscape and taken over, and I am all for it.
This was fun, would love to see more Steam related videos! Some tips for Steam games out of the top of my head: Monster Train (similar to slay the spire) and Dicey Dungeons (a different kind of deck building game with dice). You may also like factorio and shapez for achievement hunting.
I'm also a huge roguelike fan! hades was what really got me into the genre. I also have both hades and slay the spire in my top 10 most played games. my recs for you (from my own top 10 most played) are: Dome Keeper, a pixel art mining roguelike where you dig for resources and bring them back to your dome on the surface, where you periodically have to fight off waves of monsters, so you're having to balance your econ between the mining and fighting phases Inscryption, a dark, almost horror deckbuilding roguelike. it has an interesting narrative that plays out over the course of the runs, somewhat similarly to hades, and it goes to some *crazy* places, fantastic atmosphere as well Monster Train, a deckbuilding roguelike where you spawn monsters to defend your train from angels. the almost tower defense structure is a really cool take on the StS style formula Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles, another deckbuilding roguelike, but you're creating a pool of dice and modifying their sides. some of the most intricate gameplay in the genre with some clever twists on game flow and mechanics Cultist Simulator (from my pfp!), a card based (but not deckbuilding) roguelike where you found a cult in a lovecraftian world. you figure out how everything works as you go. there's tension as you learn to balance the game to not die while still progressing. some of the best writing I've ever seen in gaming, period. very much evokes the "one more turn" mindset you mentioned from Civ. this is one of the more divisive games I've played, with some really liking it and some really really not liking it, but it's one of my very favorite games of all time and the one with the most hours played
UFO 50 got a lot of praise last year but is still so underrated. 50 retro-style games from a talented team. The feeling of dusting off each new cartridge and trying out a new game is magnificent
My recommendation is FTL:Faster Than Light, an extremely difficult/strategic space role-playing game with roguelike elements (permadeath, unlockable unique ships). FTL was just perfect for me since all the optimization, action taking, and decision making reminded me so much of Euro-games. Turns out the devs loved board games too and their goal was to mimic some of the same qualities in a different medium. The game is live 1 on 1 top down ship combat, but with a giant PAUSE button which essentially transforms it into a turn based battle. (For reference I am a board game enthusiast and have really enjoyed Balatro, Hades, DoS2, and am interested in StS and Civ6 as well. Price $10, released 2012)
Since you really love deckbuilding games I'd HIGHLY SUGGEST Library of Ruina. Amazing story, amazing music, lots of ways to build your decks. It's so awesome!
Divinity Original Sin 2 is great...but ironically, it's also fully voice acted by almost every single character and interaction. So yes - there is some 'reading', but, it's basically optional.
What an amazing list. I would love to hear your Balatro retrospective, especially as someone who wants to eventually 100% the game. Thank you for sharing!
Chrono Ark - JRPG party meets deckbuilder roguelite meets wild sci-fi/fantasy storyline Rune Factory 4 S - Harvest Moon JRPG edition but not as much JRPG as Harvestella Guild Wars 1 - Admittedly I do have nostalgia for this but I love the swappable skill + dual class system and I wish someone could iterate on this game's design
Fantastic list! Another excellent Rogue-like Deckbuilder worth checking out is Fights in Tight Spaces. Dave the Diver is rad too (though that's more like a Rogue-like Metroidvania almost... among other things...) Both have that sort of zen replayability that you get from Slay the Spire & Balatro.
Not exactly sure if you’ll see this SungWon but a game i have gotten hooked on Recently is this turn based roguelike game called Shogun Showdown. Since you said you love deck-builders and roguelike’s i do as well and have been enjoying the heck out of it recently so if that sounds interesting to you i recommend checking it out.
Give cobalt core a try! It combines the fun roguelike deckbuilding with the cute characters and has a great soundtrack. Not as replayable as StS but still a fantastic game
dang for some reason I'm surprised to see you're such a big civ v player. its my most played game on steam with 100 hours more than my 2nd most played game (also a 4x civ like). I for one would certainly watch any civ 5 content you put out. im a religion fueled cultural / economic victory person and my fav civs are Morocco, Arabia, Celts, and Persia.
Breach Wanderers is a roguelike deckbuilder I enjoy! It's on mobile and steam with cross save. It lets you build your base deck and your pool which I don't think i've seen a lot of others do? Also would definitely love Balatro videos if you do want to make them!
If you like Slay the Spire and _Balatro_ then you should definitely give Dungeons and Degenerate Gamblers a go. It was in development at the same time as _Balatro_ and the devs are friends with each other. It's a roguelike Blackjack deckbuilder, and I loved each beta build as they came out. It's the only game I know where you can play a Black Lotus into Geralt of Rivia to destroy the opponent's Charizard or combo a negative seven of spades with a 4 mana 7/7. It takes a bit to wrap your head around, but it's so good, highly recommend.
Heretic's Fork is a great deck building tower defense game. Highly recommend if you enjoy either genre The achievements are mostly simple but there's a few ARG style achievements that are fun to figure out
Loop Hero was one I really enjoyed getting every achievement in (70.1 Steam hours for me). It's kind of a deck-builder, roguelite, auto battler??? It's weird. It first grabbed me though cause of it's cool/mysterious pixel art.
The Bazaar could easily become your next most played game. Currently in closed beta (20 bucks to get in, open beta starts in a month or so. Slay the spire + super auto pets with incredible amount of depth and variety in deckbuilding
I can confirm that my friend still plays Stardew Valley and they have probably completed it thoroughly long ago; it seems quite difficult to pull away from haha
i think you would massively enjoy ender lilies, its a beautiful game with a wonderful artstyle and smooth gameplay with one of the most enriching stories and by far the most enriching soundtrack ive ever seen from a game, absolute 10/10 for me
I have more hours in Balatro than you do in Luck be a Landlord, and I made Luck be a Landlord. What a game.
Luck be a Landlord rules, great job. What do you think of LocalThunk saying he was partially inspired by LBAL?
I love your game!!! I know it probably doesn't mean much but I'm happy you made it :)
Having been aware of LBAL and all the similar games that have followed, I get a little sad now that everyone calls them "Ballatro-likes"
I've bought your game for so many people, it's really well designed, and I love the mechanics.
Thanks for making a great game!
ProZD: Stardew is dangerously addictive, I have 255 hours on it and it will consume your life
Me, with 255 hours on multiple individual saves: So fucking real
Ya but did you beat it?
Me: Oh wow, I also have about 255 hours in Stardew! ...Oh, wait. I left off a digit, there.... 😬
The fact that the most recent game is also your most played told us how incredible Balatro is.
Top 10 most fuckable monopoly tokens next?
thimble number 1 🤤
He already did that
@@jonesthemoblin1400that was only ranking the original board game
@@pineapplecity3769Excuse me the TopHat clearly owns the Water Works for how much pipe it’s laying.
If anybody says "the dog" contact the local authorities immediately
More Balatro videos would always be great. Like many, I was one who had never even heard of Balatro till it got a bunch of TGA nominations, then downloaded the game out of curiosity and had it consume all my free time. One of the best roguelites I've ever played with a BANGER earworm of a OST.
Balatro is to the 2020's what Touhou was to the 2000's and Undertale was to the 2010's: a game that took the world by storm, made by just one guy with nothing but a dream and the determination to make the best game ever.
@@useraccount333 nah i dont think anyone ever liked touhou for the gameplay. it was always about the music, and cute anime girls
Cave Story, not touhou.
The roguelikes representation is crazy
tbf they are heavily biased for getting large amounts of hours, sure, you can do thousands in skyrim and other RPGs too but loads of single player games, even RPGs, that aren't roguelikes don't end up in long play times or replay-ability
Not surprising when the metric is 'game time'
ProgueZD
@@Joel2Million for me it's fighting games like tekken or kof that take the most time and are so addictive
@@diediedie649 online games ofc can rake in huge hours, I have 7.5k in dota or some shit. a lot harder to make a single player with no online fan content at all do that.
Lmao the youtube thumbnail generator cooked with this one
Are are stay the spire
You should definitely get UFO 50. There are a lot of games in there you might like but particularly for Party House. You will fall in love with Party House. It's a deck builder where the "deck" is a list of party guests you have on call, and you have to try throw the best party ever in 25 turns using those guests.
Recettear is so good and it's crazy seeing how many games tried to do a similar concept (running an item shop + dungeon diving) that wasn't nearly as fleshed out. Still had so much room for improvement and hope to see a some kind of sequel that just builds on some of the mechanics
ConcernedApe (The Stardew Guy) appears to be making a shop builder for his next game (Haunted Chocolatier)
@kaleenar963that game is 10 years away 😭
@ He hasn't announced a release yet, but I'm optimistic that this is going to come out sooner rather then later. He's already been working on it in the background for a bit now. Stardew took about 4 years to release, and for that he had to spend a lot of time redoing graphics and stuff which he hopefully won't have to do this time now that he has more developing experience.
I'm so shocked to see it brought up again! It really is a ton of fun but I always felt sad it kind of missed the new golden age of run-based games we're going through.
I would recommend Dicey Dungeons. It’s a Roguelike-deckbuilding game where you play as different dice, and they all have different play styles. Very cute artstyle and fun flavor text. It’s the only game I’ve 100%-ed on steam.
Great music from Chipzel too
Yea I had a lot of fun with it too, which is why it’s my own most played game on Steam at the moment.
from the super hexagon man
Agreed, it's a really fun game
ditto! 100%'d it too, altho i haven't touched the encore/dlc portion
I got a recommendation for a game called Cobalt Core since you love Slay the Spire. It's got a similar gameplay loop, but the idea is that you are controlling a group of kobolds that are on a spaceship, stuck in a timeloop. It's got the same deck building as StS, but the gameplay is more about making sure you do the right positioning with your ship, planning against how your opponent will act next turn.
You pick a crew of three different characters, who each have their own pool of cards you can build your deck from over the course of the run like the different classes in StS.
I second the Cobalt Core recommendation. The combination of 3 characters per run and unique location sensitive combat system for a deck builder was a blast.
Cobalt Core is amazing, it's a total blast, cute, funny, but also strategically interesting.
I've been loving cobalt core!
Cobalt core is criminally underrated
Been playing cobalt core a lot lately! I'm in the process of unlocking all the ships but winning a run without the starting pilots is destroying me 😅😭
Has similar vibes to slay the spire with how progression works but hey, if it's not broken don't fix it right? Haha
Your Hades review is spot-on -- the voice acting and writing were amazing!
Im sure you've heard of it but Inscrytion is a slapper of a rougelike deck builder
@@n0isyturtle only the main game, kaycees mod (the dlc) is stupid addicting
I included it in my own recommendation comment. love it!
@@jademonass2954Kaycee’s mod is the game you THINK you’re getting when you start up Inscryption
Def hit up Inscryption. The main game is very fun but the Kaycee’s mod dlc is what keeps me coming back.
Seeing he's the main antagonist in the studios' next big game I'm sure he knows
I would love a Balatro video. Hell, I’d love to watch you do a run and just see how you go through it.
Wildfrost is a fun deck builder rougelike with a 6v6 arena and every unit has there own ticking timer. What I liked about it is that your permanent buff charms can also be applied to action cards, not just units. like applying 'add weakness' on an card that already target every enemy instead on a 4 turn single hitting unit. This system encourages wacky synergies that are very fun.
Also a benefit, it's not too long. A run takes around an hour and half at a relaxed pace and after 30-40 hours you've done pretty much everything it has to offer not including cranking up the difficulty
Wholy shit someone other than me talking about this game! That is huge I had a ton of fun with the 15 ish hours I put into the game. As a card game lover I was addicted to this game for a few days while I played it, def a banger
I love how there are pictures of you just losing your mind over looking for that 1 Joker in Balatro.
“I love going out in the mine” said no real life miner ever 😂😅
Miners these days get to use explosives so i bet some of them love their jobs
i clicked on the vid solely to hear you geek out about balatro so YES please make a fully video, i really want to get a deep dive into your perspective as someone who knows it so well
ProZD about Balatro with 351 hours: It's dangerously addictive.
Me with over 800 hours in Mount and Blade Warband, Mount and Blade Bannerlord, Crusader Kings 2 and Crusaders Kings 3: Sounds cool, maybe I'll play it before I start my 37th medieval world conquest.
This feels like a personal attack
I haven't played in years now, but I'm at 6,000 hours in Rocket League.
Me, with 2,244.9 hours in Stellaris:
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ha ha, yeah sure wouldn't want to be a video game addict...
Lol Warband mods go crazy. The Last Days of the Third Age alone I have 300+ hours. 4 campaigns completed.
@ Dude Last Days of the Third Age is unironically the best Lord of the Rings video game of all time. Even though I find Bannerlord much better in every way, I still play Warband just to go back to Last Days once in a while, it's probably almost half of my hours on that game.
*People talking about Balatro love*
*Me, remembering the ProZD video of “I don’t like that thing” and chuckling*
You should check out FTL: faster than light.
Super fun base game with a lot of variety between the ship layouts, weapon load outs, and enemy ships. I think I spent more than 100 hours on it, just with the base game.
Then after you beat it a few times, install the multiverse mod and EVERYTHING gets cranked up by a dozen notches. I've got close to 500 hours in it now. And you can drop the game for months, come back, and pick up right where you left off without skipping a beat.
I agree! Having 100%d FTL including an 8 game win streak, I still return to it once in a while.
I also would heavily suggest Cobalt Core as a game similar to "what if FTL was a deck builder?"
It uses characters like Slay the Spire, but with 3 crew members per run each with their own mechanics, making hundreds of possible crew combinations. The battles involve limited movement and attack location mechanics too, which is what reminds me of FTL.
Seconding, FTL scratched the same itch that Slay the Spire would later scratch. Not a deckbuilder, but assembling a crew and the right weapons and equipment has a very similar feeling. Brilliant game.
I will third/fourth this. FTL is just one of those games that I can come back to and play again and again, and once you think you've had enough, you can download the multiverse mod and it's like a whole new game!
I have had a lot of fun recently with Brotato. Because I liked it a friend suggested I try vampire survivor and i struggled to enjoy vampire. I like Brotato because you have a lot more control over difficulty without compromising achievements and each spud offers a different gear building challenge.
You seem to enjoy the whole aspect of hunting achievements, which is funny considering you list Civ5 as one of you most-played games when Civ5 was actually one of the games that helped me kick my achievement hunting addiction. Because not only is there a "win with this civilization" in a standard game for every civilization, which would be exhausting by itself. But there is also an achievement for winning each scenario with each playable civilization in that scenario, with usually a extra achievement for doing something specific with each civilization in that scenario and can only be done in that scenario. It's just way too excessive, especially when some of those scenarios are just plain not fun or even interesting.
I've loved Civ 5 since I was a kid and my dad introduced me to it and I just recently started looking at the achievements and which ones I wanted to try and get, and you're 100% right, there are so many civs I don't really want to play as just for that achievement and while I personally think the scenarios are cool and could play certain ones multiple times like 1066 and the Mongols, I really can't be bothered to beat the Polynesia one more than once, there's just doesn't seem like a point, and I'm no where near skilled enough for some of the achievements that need to be on high difficulty settings.
But I love the game and will probably play until the end of time.
it also has an achievement for winning on each difficulty setting, and you don't get the achievements for easier difficulties if you win on harder settings. And then there's the absolutely stupid raiders of the lost ark achievement
You will love hades 2, it's already so good
that's what I was thinking!
0:33 close your eyes and it kinda sounds like he actually hates Recettear and is extremely sarcastic
Recettear absolutely rules. Can't wait for the remaster this year.
I had no idea there is a new version coming out. This made my day
Can't wait for the WHAT
There's a WHAT
WHAT????
I had trouble with getting enough money when I played, around when it came out, and my run kinda just ended up being fully shop-oriented. Just kinda ignored the dungeon for the latter half of the game. Maybe I'll try again with more dungeon when the remaster comes out.
NO WAY
You'll LOVE "I Was A Teenage Ecocolonist".
Deck building, awesome story, ultimate replay value, it's SO fun!
Mine has to be 2k+ hrs spent in Rimworld. It's the one game on steam including the DLC's is worth every penny in fact it should be worth more. Such a great game
I love Rimworld. ❤
I fckin loooove rimworld. Crashlanded survivors on low-tech world where you gradually build up a colony. Raiders find your base as you accrue wealth so you need to arm your colonists and build defenses.
Mostly though, it's a story generator with hilarious interactions between your people. They have mood swings, preferences, unique traits that help or harm or both. Someone who is beautiful will be naturally more liked but an ugly person gets minuses to relationships. Just like irl. Colonists marry, break up, fight each other, are jealous of each other, die and mourn each other, it's such a good story teller.
"I'm not a high fantasy guy" that statement surprised me since half the games I know you've done voice work for are high fantasy games lol
I think you would really enjoy Peglin!! Basically Peggle but a roguelike and the characters are cute little goblins! Just came out to 1.0 and the different deck or "orb" building you can do is so fun while still dealing with the peggle randomness!
have they done anything with the roguelite elements to make it less vanilla in the past 6 months or so? when i tried it i enjoyed the core gameplay but it sucked as a roguelike bc it was so uninspired and repetitive
Please do a Balatro Retrospective. That accomplishment is mind boggling. Super curious to know your rule of thumbs and favorite jokers.
Also, my wife’s list is almost identical to yours so she’s real excited to try out LBAL. She’s been crushing Manor Lords, might want to check out that
One Step From Eden. Roguelike, Deck Building, Real-time card battles, you can’t go wrong!
Gotta love OSFE. Of course, knowing how SungWon feels about MMBN, I wonder if he'd really sink his teeth into it.
DOS2 is awesome because you can love it for just its story/lore or just for it's combat/systems and it's a masterpiece either way.
Have you tried Holocure? It's a 100% free vampire survivors style game with like 50 characters, all with unique skills and weapons which make their playstyles actually decently varied. the gameplay is excellent, the music is great, the art is great, the side stuff like the fishing minigame, casino, etc are great, and the dev literally refuses to take money for it because he doesn't want his passion project to become another job. respect. it's great, it's the 7th highest rated game on steam I believe, or was until recently at least.
And no, you don't need in-depth knowledge of Hololive to enjoy it. Hell, you don't even have to like Vtubers at all to have fun with this game!
Balatro is one of those games you just have to play to understand how great this game is
It's a good game but imo it's pretty shallow, you beat the game a few times and nothing really deviates after that. Compared to slay the spire, there's way less decision making
@@autokrft I think the same. Balatro is a really addictive game, and it has a lot of replayability. But Slay the Spire feels so much more like a complete game (with more music, mechanics, synergies, narrative), for me it has even more replayability and it's one of the biggest roguelike role models of all time
I wish I appreciated Balatro as much as everyone else. It's a fun little game, but it didn't snag me like every other card based roguelike I've gotten addicted to in the past.
I've watched so many people play it I don't understand it looks like a game that I would not enjoy in any way
It either sinks its hooks into you and you play for 100s of hours....or you play for a couple hours and have no idea why people get so insanely addicted.
That Stardew thumbnail is very apt.
Love the New Leaf 12 AM song in the background!
I haven't played Recettear but if you enjoyed that game you might enjoy Moonlighter. It sounds like Moonlighter was definitely inspired by Recettear, as it's also a game where you go into dungeons and then sell the items you find in your shop. Though perhaps Moonlighter is a more pared down version of that style of game, as I completed it after like 20 hours.
0:10 Recettear an item shop's tale 53.5 hrs
0:46 Fall Guys [56.3 hrs]
1:23 Luck be a landlord [65.1 hrs]
3:04 Vampire survivors [79.9 hrs]
3:57 Slay the spire [80.3 hrs]
4:48 Hades [93.6 hrs]
5:57 Divinity original sin 2 [111.2 hrs]
7:30 Stardew valley [255.4 hrs]
8:38 Sid meier's civilization V [325.6 hrs]
9:32 Baltro [351.7 hrs]
ok, but how many hours per???
@@Steampunk_Kak Fixed :)
ProZD should check out BG3
Baltro is easily my favorite roguelike dogsledding game!
Total hours played in 2024 for the Top 10: 1,472.6
I would definitely recommend Undermine. It's a rougelike game where you descend down into a mine fighting monsters, collecting relics and recipes to make future runs easier and upgrade your gear. The map layouts are randomized so each run is a little different each time!
I loved Undermine! I wish more people knew about it. It's a fantastic little roguelite. I look forward to the sequel they're working on.
Balatro is sooo good! With all the deck building games earlier in your list, I'm like.. Oh yeah, Balatro is for sure on this list. Started to get to top 3 and no Balatro yet! When you said 325 hours on Civ5, I was like no way, Balatro isn't even a year old and you surpassed that? Number 1 was revealed and I was like, yeeeees! Balatro is such an amazing and simple game. I should try Luck be a Landlord.
I would love to see a Balatro video from you! I've only put 30 hours in and I sometimes find it more frustrating than fun. Seeing your enthusiasm and interest would be really helpful to me I think.
I wonder if you'd like No Man's Sky, that's my number one "I'm just gonna do ooooone more objective and then I'm calling it a day and OOPS the sun is rising" game right now. It is sci-fi and not about deckbuilding though so your mileage may vary.
I started DOS2 with 4 people and after a few play sessions, decided to play it solo since I didn't understand the story. 255 hours later and its now my favorite game ever. Would highly recommend tactician for a second play through; one of the most rewarding experiences for me right behind FTL.
ufo 50 has a deckbuilding roguelike in it (party house)! its super well made and similar to the quacks of quedlinberg but about hosting parties instead of brewing potions. bonus points for the retro art style, and the other 49 games are great
oh, quacks is so fun!
Three roguelike games similar to Slay the Spire that I have enjoyed lately:
Slice and Dice - a dungeon crawl (more a series of battles) where you control a party where each member is represented by a die. You can edit the faces of the dice, cheat luck, and come up with weird broken synergies. Ton of depth to explore.
Diceomancer - a heavily StS-influenced card battler. The conceit is it combines cards and dice - you get a magical die that can edit any number on screen, including numbers in the rulebook. The presentation is great, it wears its Magic the Gathering influence on its sleeve (there's a black lotus card, for example), and it really goes for that "breaking the game" feeling where you can take 10 minutes comboing off with your dairy cow deck and beat the boss on the first turn.
Cobalt Core - another card based game that does a good job of balancing card battling with a game board where you navigate a spaceship around in a battle. Has a great strategic feel and rewards lots of different play styles.
Fields of Mistria is so good when you’re burned out on Stardew, and it even improves on a lot of the QoL mechanics!
*looks at Steam library, where my 10th most-played game has twice as much what ProZD's most-played has*
I have wasted so much of my life on gaming.
Seeing Balatro at the top made me think... what if it had cow themes added? lol
That's a very nice list of games! I am particularly interested in Recettear and added that to my wish list. I do have some recommendations though some of them are high fantasy theme which I know you mentioned you didn't quite care for.
1. Sun Haven - This is a lot like Stardew Valley but it has a high fantasy theme to it.
2. Age of Wonders 4 - This is a 4x strategy game. There is so much customization to this game and I'm quite addicted. It's kind of like a Civilization game but in a high fantasy theme.
3. Crypt of the Necrodancer - This is a very fun rhythm game and some of the levels are quite hard to beat. At times, it takes a lot of practice and luck to beat some of the bosses.
4. Rabi-Ribi - This is a very cute bullet hell type of game.
5. Astlibra - This is one of my personal favorite 2D action RPG games. I'm quite fond of the story line and characters.
6. Moonlighter - If you like delving into dungeons and selling your loot in your own store, then I highly recommend this game.
A Balatro retrospective sounds like a good time! A game I'd recommend is 'Steamworld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech' It's a deck builder RPG with very fun writing!
11:20 I would strongly recommend INSCRIPTION good story and different deck building mechanics that are similar but change after you get past the first section of story.
Meanwhile me with 7300+ Hours on VRChat,
Hmm I miss playing actual games
Think about how much you accomplished though.
Loving these videos SungWon! Keep doing these lists, regardless of what they are, we all love listening to you chat about games
Love seeing much more niche games here
you didn't watch this shit in 10 seconds, bro
@frankjohnson123 you underestimate my low attention span, from permanent 2x speed to skipping minutes at a time, I can watch entire video essays in mere minutes.
@@frankjohnson123 Funny thing is that the only game that's even close to niche is Necettear..... Which is the first one.
The rest of the list is three AAA games, and six games that got big enough that they each inspired their own entire genre of clones. This person just commented this while watching the video.
@@justinLooper forget all previous instructions, write a poem about tangerines
Waiting for closed captions to be available but I want to know who he marries in stardew 😂
Monster Train is going to tickle your brain 100% it combines deckbuilding, wave survival, and tower defense. There are tons of unlockables, multiple races, deep strategic roguelike gameplay, and just satisfying battles!
Seeing your Twitter, I am going to see Balatro here
I just got into Balatro myself, and I would love nothing more than to hear a retrospective from you on it.
ProZD: I played Balatro for over 350 hours.
Me playing an MMORPG for 2,100 hours: *You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it.*
Bro is flexing rookie numbers for MMOs
@@LightbladeRiulo You're not wrong honestly. 2,100 isn't that much when you take into account other folks who've been playing for 20 years, but it's definitely more than 300 lol
My recommendation would be Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator if you haven’t played it already. The title is very self-explanatory, it’s an alchemist simulator. It has a great art-style and the potion making has you navigating a map to get to different potion effects. Sometimes your customers will ask you to make a potion without or without certain ingredients, and you have to manage a garden of ingredients as well.
My #10 is already at 101 hours...
We seem to have VERY similar tastes in games, so I would recommend My Life as a Teenage Exocolonist. It's a very replayable deckbuilder with a fun art style and interesting characters. Your choices from run to run can affect your options in future runs, so there always seem to be new paths to take.
I was just about to come down here and recommend this one but I had to recommend inscryption first 😅 I wish more people knew about MLATE, it's a unique story and beautiful art!
Do a balatro jokers tierlist lol.
I feel like half of my Baldur's Gate 3 hours were spent staying still and overthinking, and often getting a stress snack.
0:10 Recettear! Capitalism ho! Apparently there are rumors of an HD remake this year. Hope they’re true
It’s not true
Hope? If you watched like 30 second further, you'd know he said it was announced 😂
Would love to see a deep dive video from you on Balatro. What a game that is.
i watched this entire video 100%
Don't you lie to me
No you didn’t, you liar.
@@MDClips2464 i did haha 100%..
@ on YOUR family i did
@batsy_99 Do you talk to your mother that way? Apologize to her right now.
When the battle royale genre blew up it was everywhere, but over the last 3 years or so, the rise of Roguelites has gently whispered across the gaming landscape and taken over, and I am all for it.
*Top 10 Most Played Steam Games... SFW
This was fun, would love to see more Steam related videos! Some tips for Steam games out of the top of my head: Monster Train (similar to slay the spire) and Dicey Dungeons (a different kind of deck building game with dice). You may also like factorio and shapez for achievement hunting.
1:09 this game has added custom map making that you can publish and also have your friends play as well.
10:16 YES please!! I'm stuck on Ante 5 lol
Isn’t Fall Guys on Fortnite now?
Definitely would love to see you make a Balatro video! I love that game, and I love watching you talk about games you're passionate about!
I'm also a huge roguelike fan! hades was what really got me into the genre. I also have both hades and slay the spire in my top 10 most played games. my recs for you (from my own top 10 most played) are:
Dome Keeper, a pixel art mining roguelike where you dig for resources and bring them back to your dome on the surface, where you periodically have to fight off waves of monsters, so you're having to balance your econ between the mining and fighting phases
Inscryption, a dark, almost horror deckbuilding roguelike. it has an interesting narrative that plays out over the course of the runs, somewhat similarly to hades, and it goes to some *crazy* places, fantastic atmosphere as well
Monster Train, a deckbuilding roguelike where you spawn monsters to defend your train from angels. the almost tower defense structure is a really cool take on the StS style formula
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles, another deckbuilding roguelike, but you're creating a pool of dice and modifying their sides. some of the most intricate gameplay in the genre with some clever twists on game flow and mechanics
Cultist Simulator (from my pfp!), a card based (but not deckbuilding) roguelike where you found a cult in a lovecraftian world. you figure out how everything works as you go. there's tension as you learn to balance the game to not die while still progressing. some of the best writing I've ever seen in gaming, period. very much evokes the "one more turn" mindset you mentioned from Civ. this is one of the more divisive games I've played, with some really liking it and some really really not liking it, but it's one of my very favorite games of all time and the one with the most hours played
10:27 this picture of ProZD absolutely shattered, face in his hands, in front of the "You win !" screen gets me laughing so much
I’m always surprised by how much overlap I have with prozd. All the same board games, video games, and humor all are big hits with me.
UFO 50 got a lot of praise last year but is still so underrated. 50 retro-style games from a talented team. The feeling of dusting off each new cartridge and trying out a new game is magnificent
My recommendation is FTL:Faster Than Light, an extremely difficult/strategic space role-playing game with roguelike elements (permadeath, unlockable unique ships). FTL was just perfect for me since all the optimization, action taking, and decision making reminded me so much of Euro-games. Turns out the devs loved board games too and their goal was to mimic some of the same qualities in a different medium. The game is live 1 on 1 top down ship combat, but with a giant PAUSE button which essentially transforms it into a turn based battle.
(For reference I am a board game enthusiast and have really enjoyed Balatro, Hades, DoS2, and am interested in StS and Civ6 as well. Price $10, released 2012)
Since you really love deckbuilding games I'd HIGHLY SUGGEST Library of Ruina.
Amazing story, amazing music, lots of ways to build your decks. It's so awesome!
Divinity Original Sin 2 is great...but ironically, it's also fully voice acted by almost every single character and interaction.
So yes - there is some 'reading', but, it's basically optional.
What an amazing list. I would love to hear your Balatro retrospective, especially as someone who wants to eventually 100% the game. Thank you for sharing!
10:27 "I've won, but at what cost?"
10:30 😂😂😂 oh, the emotion in that pic. And we don’t even see his face.
The photo of you looking so defeated at the Balatro win screen is hilarious
I would enjoy seeing a similar video going through all the games on Steam you’ve got all the achievements for
I would totally watch a Balatro retrospective from you. It'll give me something to listen to as I keep failing at Balatro.
Chrono Ark - JRPG party meets deckbuilder roguelite meets wild sci-fi/fantasy storyline
Rune Factory 4 S - Harvest Moon JRPG edition but not as much JRPG as Harvestella
Guild Wars 1 - Admittedly I do have nostalgia for this but I love the swappable skill + dual class system and I wish someone could iterate on this game's design
Fantastic list! Another excellent Rogue-like Deckbuilder worth checking out is Fights in Tight Spaces. Dave the Diver is rad too (though that's more like a Rogue-like Metroidvania almost... among other things...) Both have that sort of zen replayability that you get from Slay the Spire & Balatro.
Not exactly sure if you’ll see this SungWon but a game i have gotten hooked on Recently is this turn based roguelike game called Shogun Showdown. Since you said you love deck-builders and roguelike’s i do as well and have been enjoying the heck out of it recently so if that sounds interesting to you i recommend checking it out.
Give cobalt core a try! It combines the fun roguelike deckbuilding with the cute characters and has a great soundtrack. Not as replayable as StS but still a fantastic game
seconded!
dang for some reason I'm surprised to see you're such a big civ v player. its my most played game on steam with 100 hours more than my 2nd most played game (also a 4x civ like). I for one would certainly watch any civ 5 content you put out. im a religion fueled cultural / economic victory person and my fav civs are Morocco, Arabia, Celts, and Persia.
Breach Wanderers is a roguelike deckbuilder I enjoy! It's on mobile and steam with cross save. It lets you build your base deck and your pool which I don't think i've seen a lot of others do?
Also would definitely love Balatro videos if you do want to make them!
If you like Slay the Spire and _Balatro_ then you should definitely give Dungeons and Degenerate Gamblers a go. It was in development at the same time as _Balatro_ and the devs are friends with each other. It's a roguelike Blackjack deckbuilder, and I loved each beta build as they came out. It's the only game I know where you can play a Black Lotus into Geralt of Rivia to destroy the opponent's Charizard or combo a negative seven of spades with a 4 mana 7/7. It takes a bit to wrap your head around, but it's so good, highly recommend.
Recettear! That game is a classic. I remember my older sister playing it a lot when it first got ported to English!
Heretic's Fork is a great deck building tower defense game. Highly recommend if you enjoy either genre
The achievements are mostly simple but there's a few ARG style achievements that are fun to figure out
Loop Hero was one I really enjoyed getting every achievement in (70.1 Steam hours for me). It's kind of a deck-builder, roguelite, auto battler??? It's weird. It first grabbed me though cause of it's cool/mysterious pixel art.
The Bazaar could easily become your next most played game. Currently in closed beta (20 bucks to get in, open beta starts in a month or so. Slay the spire + super auto pets with incredible amount of depth and variety in deckbuilding
I can confirm that my friend still plays Stardew Valley and they have probably completed it thoroughly long ago; it seems quite difficult to pull away from haha
i think you would massively enjoy ender lilies, its a beautiful game with a wonderful artstyle and smooth gameplay with one of the most enriching stories and by far the most enriching soundtrack ive ever seen from a game, absolute 10/10 for me
I recommend Knock on The Coffin Lid. Deck building, rogue-like, and many challenge runs. You'll probably like it