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Love the summary at the start. Tainted grail looks the best similar to DD

Absolutely loved Ratropolis. I haven’t seen a game like it.

I still wish bullet heaven was in the steam store, sigh.

Breach wanderers is a pretty good one for mobile

Steam says Hades is both Roguelite and Roguelike, they are shooting themselves in the foot there. Roguelike - Snake and FTL Roguelite - Hades

i really can recommend: Steam World Quest, Hand of Gilgamech ! awesome visuals with a nice story and special niche tricks <3 sadly there is little to no replayability, but still it is awesome

dungeon siege (best party game ever) diablo II( diablo 2 (party, appearances of random champion every where, killing of bosses for the loot with different skill was fun) Fable The Lost Chapters dragonage origin series blade and sword (best feature is combos which i miss) Warlords Battle Cry (best hero system ever) Eternium SANDS OF SALZAAR Sword Coast Legends Spellforce(1&2 only) Final fantasy VII remake Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem torchlight II Titan Quest Anniversary Shadows: Awakening Victor Vran - Overkill Edition Van Helsing Shadow of the Depth silver gog game darkstone SANDS OF SALZAAR Divine Divinity Heores of Annhiliated Empires history channel great battle of rome i have played many but like these most if you know anything near to it let me know

Wanna hear a joke? Diablo 3

Just a few that were not mentioned, Beneath Oresa, Diceomancer and Crossblitz

Just pirate Diablo 2 resurrected, problem solved.

Project Diablo 2 is the best alternative to D2R

Id like to add Wazhack to the list of great Roguelikes

What about goobies

Vampire survivors was already a "magic survivors-like"

Rouge like that's it lol

Thank you! You've opened a lot of games for me. Hope to see another episode of your deck builder saga :)

Would you consider making another one of these for 2024? Maybe 20 instead of 10?

Hades 2🥹❤️!

It's crazy that twitch is so greedy yet it is still such a black hole for money, I think some salaries and where resources are being allocated need to be examined.

Your comments about meta-progression triggered my class roguelike rant to proc. A classic roguelike has no lasting progression either in runs or between runs, and this is an important characteristic. The reason it's important is instructive for bullet heavens, even though, being action games with meta progression, they're not classic roguelikes. The meta-progression of Nethack 3.0 or Caves of Qud is all in your head. You learn how to cheese the game, or at least overcome difficult obstacles. There's an end-game boss fight in Nethack. There are tough enemies, but progress isn't skill-gated by having to fight bullet sponges that defy all the rules you've just learned. Not having meta-progression has another benefit, though. It forces developers to make the game worth replaying just as it is. Nethack and Qud (and Rogue, xarn, Omega, Cataclysim Dark Days Ahead, Tome of Maj-Eyal, etc.) get where they got by being interesting and fun with a variety of different mechanics working together in unique ways that can be endlessly surprising. I'm not saying BH games shouldn't have meta-progression. What I'm bringing up is that like a classic Roguelike, what makes a standout game is replayability that you'd enjoy even if there was no meta-progression.

Army of Ruin was my 1st Bullet Heaven. I absolutely love it and this genre! I used to play Dynasty Warriors up to the 7th one. You're right. That is damn near a BH game.

chess is a rougelike

Excellent video

Monster Train is my favorite of all. Ive sunk so many hundreds of hours into it over multple systems. 430 hours just on steam just as of writing. Also, PLAY MIDNIGHT SUNS

Balatro is pretty good

Would love to see another interview with Jon! I think there was a lot of insight here in terms of living as an indie dev and wearing all the hats. The design discussions were particularly relevant to me as well as I am trying to make a game in the same genre. The potential this genre has for fantasy building is incredible and getting this insight into my main inspiration of WitchHand was really quite useful. Thanks!

You should try Ruff Ghanor, recently released. great story, great mechanics and awesome deck building options.

Slay The Spire is such an awesome game. I couldn’t get into Monster Train. Not sure what it was about the game. Graphics maybe. But it get such good reviews-I wish I had liked it.

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dude , you drew me too handsome.... was so much fun chatting <3

It's always interesting to see the sort of 'how did you end up here?' paths people take. Cheers for the interview!

Super excited to see you doing interviews again.

Playing it right now and it's fun!

Wait you are doing interviews again I should watch these

Gotta say, really enjoyed playing it during the testing phase, enjoying it now that it's out, and looking forward to seeing the Air wizard. For some reason, I was thinking a necromancer would be first... go figure. But yes, seeing how that design would work will be fun. The obvious angle is to take the opposite from Hazel: she makes dice grow and depletes spells for extra effects. The opposite would be a wizard who spends dice to add more charges to a spell, so some kind of Overcharge mechanic, then. And there's the dice manipulation angle to consider, the base spell for such a character. Water's fluid, so re-rolling works. Fire consumes, so the wound and splitting angle works, and Earth grows. Air's got the changing nature of water, but it's more binary: you're either in the calm eye of the storm or at the edge where the destruction's happening. Having dice be picked up and re-rolled next turn for the effect might work there. And lastly, there's the non-combat damage. Azar has Banefire, Lapis has Poison, Hazel has Thorns, these are good mitigations for fights where you can get punished for attacking but need to maintain pressure. The Air wizard would need something that fulfills the same function. Again, if it's taking the opposite of Hazel, that'd be a retaliation mechanic that doesn't stack across turns, some sort of mark that detonates when the enemy attacks. Air is generally portrayed as the element of intellect, so an ability that relies on timing would fit thematically, suppose. But balancing all that can't be easy. And this is the obvious options, too, can't imagine what's actually cooking. Still, looking forward to see which calls were right and which were wrong.

Love Inscryption and Cobalt Core !

"We haven't really seen a big studio make a game in this space before" Nintendo just released Side Order for Splatoon 3 c:

Cannot recommend Titan Quest and Grim Dawn enough. The Titan Quest sequel is actually in the works and Grim Dawn is still getting updates

Always love to see retro abd wanderbots in the same video

Really liked this interview, was quite good. Didi enjoy having Reto also along so it was a 4 way chat.

Heard about this but never looked too far into it, might have to now though. Seeing the dev tools was really cool.

I probably put a few hundred hours into the beta, super excited to finally be able to pay for this game! It's so much fun.

that was an impressive cool interview this gets us to connect with the devs because they are human just as we are. its cool to see the people that make the games speak about how their games were basically created and thought out. bravo! wanderbot you and the rest of the community is cool!

This was a fantastic interview, thank you! Looks like a great game

Was lovely chatting to both of you!

Might give it a try myself later today, looks like a cool game

Hardcore platformer metroidvania roguelite = hollow knight? (Specifically steel soul)

"what is an indies grain" lol 7:12

I'm halfway through this. What a fun interview!

This was a great interview!