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[Alexios]

These guys' games seem to fit the bill. Shmups and moreso Contra-likes (with big pixel boobs lol).

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[Rocinante618]

I blindly picked this up and it's actually fun.

 

[Rocinante618]

A few more unique roguelikes:

Deadlink: Think Cyberpunk & DOOM, add in a rogue-lite system and incredibly meaty shooting with a banger sound track and design.

Withering Rooms: Charming and unique art, roguelike gameplay and lot's of secrets and stuff to uncover. Combat is simple and a bit jank but everything else is presented in a wonderful package. Top tier 2.5D "cute" horror survival roguelike. Bruh.

The Eternal Die: A spin-off set in the Lost in Random universe. Extremely responsive and smooth, clean artwork and very performant. Quite lacking in content but I low-key enjoyed this game more than Hades.

The Last Stand Aftermath: Think TLoU2 but isometric fixed camera and State of Decay 2 gameplay with roguelike progression. It's tense, the gameplay is smooth and fun and progression is neat and quick. Some parts are a bit jank but thankfully the game doesn't overstay and does exactly what it wants to do. Very unique and fun.

 

[Rocinante618]

Many more small indie stuff I liked. Will update the post with personal opinions about these all later. I'm tired and lazy now lol.

 

[Deerock71]

Soul Bubbles, but good luck if it's locked to the DS.

 

[Ar¢tos]

It's on sale again on psn. I turned my ps5 on (after 4 months gathering dust) to play it and, probably because I love books and I'm always reading one, I absolutely love it.

Update on this:
After many runs, I think this gem is a bit unpolished.
The first cutscene plays in English, the others ones play in Russian (wtf?), but there are only 4 or 5 and they last 10 seconds.
I've encountered 2 pages in Russian too.
The story, plot, world and concept are very good, but the game can be really hard if you are trying for a specific destiny and the game is very depressing! (it doesn't help that most members of your family feel indifference or straight up dislike for you as soon as you are born).
I give it a 6.5/10.

 

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[silentstorm]

Nova Drift- This game is basically Asteroids but roguelite, it's a fun game, make various builds and smash or shoot stuff:

Utopia Must Fall- Since the last one was basically what if an old Atari classic was a roguelite, here is another, though this one is Missile Command, same deal, you get options after beating waves to fix or make your city better, more shields, missiles, drones and the like, last as long as you can!

Retro Endurance 8-Bit - Collection of various 8-Bit games, think Ufo 50 but...you know, only 8-Bit games, and all made by one guy...the man who made the ZSnes emulator...yeah, guess after making an emulator for a legendary 16 Bit system, the next follow up many years later was a collection of 8-Bit games...obviously!

Dungeons And Degenerate Gamblers- Blackjack roguelite where...okay, it's Balatro but blackjack, amazingly enough, this game actually came out before Balatro and is a good game too...just i guess didn't get the same attention:

One Finger Death Punch 2- The first one was a XBLA classic in the 360 days, but feels kinda forgotten nowadays, the sequel came and went faster and it's a shame because it's great too...and One Finger Death Punch is just fucking awesome and when you are on a roll you feel like the ultimate badass: