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What are the best roguelites?

Returnal was my first rougelite game and I instantly fell in love with the genre. Maybe because how good that game was. It's still my favourite game on PS5.
 

Ogbert

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Returnal was my first rougelite game and I instantly fell in love with the genre. Maybe because how good that game was. It's still my favourite game on PS5.
Returnal is a good game but it’s not really a roguelite. It’s an arcade game with very, very light rogue mechanics.

There’s no meaningful build variation.
 

GHG

Gold Member
Returnal is more roguelike in its mechanics than it is roguelite. That's why I didn't get on with it too well, not enough metaprogression for my liking.

Anyway, a few others I'd recommend:


This one used to be called "monolith" but for some reason they changed its name, I was addicted to this on the deck for a while:



One of my most played games on the deck last year (I prefer this to slay the spire, it's excellent in every way):



This is an excellent turn based roguelite:



An often overlooked deckbuilding roguelite:



A soundtrack that SLAPS (the game is pretty good too):



A roguelite chess game with a very unique spin (this game is a ton of fun):



I've not put enough time into this one yet but from what I have (a couple of hours) it played like a very well put together twin stick roguelite) :

 
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