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[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Now how much would it have sold it if was called "Star Searcher" instead of Nintendos big IP?

The roguelite genre really didn't get mainstream exposure until signifificantly later. It was stuck on PC at a time when consoles were the dominant form of gaming. The genre also didn't have the visual appeal back then that it does today.

Slight correction: many PCs back then weren't "PCs", as in they weren't IBM-compatibles running DOS or Windows. Stuff like the Amiga, Commodore, or PC-88 (which also had lots of roguelikes) were referred to either by their name or together more as microcomputers. Or, maybe as personal computers but not in the way "PC" is used nowadays.

 

[Muffdraul]

An indie roguelike, you say?

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[Danjin44]

The hypothetical makes it easy to consider how far game design has progressed over the last 30 years. A Link to the Past is often considered one of the best 2D games from that era, but looking back on it from 2024, I don't think it's aged as well as people like to believe. The roguelite design may be a more advanced version of that old formula.