The PlayStation 5’s first-party output has been all over the place, but one bright spot early on was Housemarque’s Returnal. Released in 2021, months after the console’s launch, the third-person ...

Balatro, the 2024 smash-hit that stole everyone’s hearts in one fell swoop, still dominates much of my day. I play it on the train, while I’m watching TV, when I’m in bed, and, look, sometimes even in ...

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse, set to launch this year, is being made by Konami and two studios behind the roguelike Dead Cells, Evil Empire and Motion Twin. Given the history of those two studios, I ...

NetHack is a fork of the 1984 game Hack. This version was first released in 1987, but the developers made NetHack open source, making it easy to get your hands on. That said, NetHack is, unlike most ...

Protect Earth and her colonies in a fresh roguelike deckbuilder experience, infusing classic ’90s mech anime with Greek mythology. In MECHBORN, your mech is your deck. Unlock mech parts and pilots, ...

Roguelike Everything is Crab review: This Spore-inspired roguelike lets you find your own evolutionary niche—or just turn into a mess of eyes and tentacles Action I didn't think a 2D platformer could ...

A Little Physics Roguelike is, unsurprisingly, a roguelike with physics-based gameplay. If you’re a fan of pachinko, coin pushers, and auto-battlers, the demo for this upcoming game from developer ...

Tay Garcia is a Staff Writer at DualShockers and a Brazilian journalist who has been covering games professionally since 2017. Her work spans news, reviews, previews, lists, guides, and features, with ...

If I had to crown a genre as the most popular gaming niche of the year, I’d be tempted to pick roguelikes. They’ve dominated the gaming world in 2025, with subgenres like casino roguelikes, ...

Action There's a game coming out this year where you fight your Steam backlog, and it's more dangerous the more you've spent Roguelike I'm having to completely retrain my muscle memory in Deep Rock ...

Hellreaper is a new roguelike action platformer from developer Awesome Games Studio. In it, you play a former angel who is now the Hellreaper, aka a "mystical executioner sent to cull Hell's endless ...

This article is part of Run, Die, Repeat, Polygon's week-long series exploring roguelikes. The definition of "roguelike" is one of those topics of conversation that will keep die-hard fans debating ...