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Grit and Valor - 1949 review: Roguelite mech grinder
By Dominic Tarason published
Liteweight Once more Into The Breach? Grit and Valor’s real-time roguelite combat may value your time more than your smarts.

You've probably been pronouncing Balatro wrong all along, but 'it's kind of a gif/jif situation'
By Rich Stanton published
News You say tomato, I say Balatro.

After 17 years, devs of the only roguelike where players ask 'the best way to get the most limbs' can't believe its success: 'More people have bought Caves of Qud than are in this stadium, how do you reckon with that?'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Limber up.

Despite making a roguelike where you can have countless arms and legs, Caves of Qud's creators say the ideal form is a limbless sphere: 'We started in perfection and only moved farther from God'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News That's about what I expected.

PC Gamer vindicated by Swen Vincke: Larian boss calls Balatro his personal GOTY as it sweeps top prize from devs at GDC awards
By Joshua Wolens published
News All well and good that Balatro got its plaudits, but what truly matters here is that we were right.

Balatro's first demo could be edited with Notepad to unlock the whole game—the solution? 'Bury it as soon as possible' with a 'newer, shinier version'
By Harvey Randall published
News "It was very important to do that quick."

The Bazaar could be the future of autobattlers, if it stops strangling itself to death with its own microtransactions
By Robin Valentine published
HOW BAZAAR Aggressive monetisation has made the existing community furious—but it also makes the new player experience miserable.

We need to decide on a genre name for Vampire Survivors-like games before a really terrible one sticks
By Robin Valentine published
VS No, Steam, they're not "bullet hell action roguelikes".

The Hand of Fate devs are back with a bullet heaven called Hordes of Fate
By Jody Macgregor published
News They've been making roguelike deckbuilders since 2015, so fair enough.

This mash-up of side-scrolling beat-'em-up and fantasy roguelike feels like it could be the future of a classic genre
By Robin Valentine published
SPELL SCROLL Hands-on with Absolum, the latest game from the developer of Streets of Rage 4 and the publisher of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge.
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