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Dungeon Souls is a very cool dungeon crawling hack n slash roguelike featuring gorgeous pixel art animation, challenging gameplay, big bosses, procedurally generated level design and permadeath.

After choosing between six playable hero classes (we had most success with the wizard), players set forth into procedurally generated dungeons, packed with loot, hazards and enemies. As you progress, you’ll earn XP, level up, grade your attributes and collect items which grant permanent bonuses for the entirety of the current run. Most of these bonuses stack, Binding of Isaac-style, slowly transforming you from a puny weakling into a force to be reckoned with – which is a good thing as bosses can be tough!

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Ducksoup Dungeon is a fun Game Boy themed roguelike with challenging gameplay, procedurally generated levels and charming retro visuals.

As you progress through the dungeon, you’ll level up, encounter a nice array of enemies and collect gold which can be used to unlock new characters. Each new character has a distinct attack move which adds a nice bit of variety to the gameplay.

It’s a fun game that offers up addictive roguelike action platforming and feels authentically like a Game Boy game (aside from some cool OTT explosions). Perfect for short blasts of retro roguelike action – we just wish it was available on a Game Boy cart!

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Seventh Saga is an surprisingly fast-paced, turn-based rogue-lite RPG that sees you controlling a demonic overlord as you conquer the world, corrupting it and ridding it of all the human scum.

For such a simple looking game, there’s a surprising amount of depth, you level up as you defeat enemies, kill wildlife for health, gain minions from captured bases and gain attack bonuses when standing on corrupted land. Seventh Saga can get pretty challenging as you attempt to take over bases, and human knights pour out and attack you – you have to be especially careful here, if they surround you, you’re pretty much dead (much better to lure them to your bases and let your minions attack them).

Seventh Saga is pretty simple but very addictive, with charming pixel art animation and a surprising amount of depth. It’s a challenging game, but nobody said being an evil demonic overlord was easy!

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Wizard of Legend is a superb 2D pixelated roguelike action adventure game where your goal is to be the strongest and best wizard that there can be! With a hand full of different wizards to play as, each with different spells and abilities, choose wisely and become a legend.

Combat it fast and fun, with each wizard capable of a variety of special moves, each with their own cool downs. Defeating enemies is surprisingly challenging - this is no button mashing dungeon crawler, you have to studying your opponent’s actions and time your strikes well to survive these procedurally generated dungeons.

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Sublevel Zero - an awesome Descent-style procedurally generated roguelike 6-degrees-of-freedom shooter with looting, crafting and a thumping 8-bit soundtrack.

The original build was created for Ludum 29 and the devs are gearing up for a full release on Steam soon. We were beginning to think that games like Descent had been forsaken, but Sublevel Zero looks set to bring them back with a procedurally generated bang.

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The Spooky Cave - A Great New Twin-Stick Roguelike With Fun Combat & Lots Of Weaponry - from Sacred Swords to Machine Guns!

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Barbara-ian - super tough procedurally generated one-hit-kill dungeon crawler that focuses on destruction and pure action.

With you taking on the role of a super-tough female viking warrior, Barbara-ian strips away all the unnecessary clutter that slow down the action in your typical dungeon crawler. There’s a nice selection of weaponry to be found, but there’s no inventory, no skill system and no health bars – everything (including you) is one-hit-kill so there’s no need for stats and upgrades, all you need skill and timing.

With it’s love of action, carnage and destruction, Barbara-ian is a joy to play – a streamlined dungeon crawler that delivers challenge, excitement and fun. Barbara-ric fun.

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Space Beast Terror Fright (or ‘Aliens: The Awesome FPS Roguelike’ as it should really be known), is a super hard Aliens-inspired perma-death roguelike FPS full of tense gameplay and brutal action.

Featuring procedurally generated levels, random power-ups (including an Aliens-style motion tracker and Predator-style thermal vision), sentry guns and tons of swarming aliens.

Space Beast Terror Fright is a must for any fans of the Alien movies and old-school shooters – a tense and atmospheric roguelike corridor shooter full of nasty wall-crawling xenomorphs. Game over man…

Overture is a fast and fun 16-bit action-roguelike, with of randomly generated dungeons, 24 character classes, a vast array of weaponry and unlimited upgrades.

Inspired by the likes of The Legend of Zelda, River City Ransom and Diablo, Overture features chaotic dungeon crawling gameplay and a deep enemy AI system which belies it’s simplistic (but very cool) retro visuals. Not only are the procedurally generated levels unpredictable, but so is the AI, specifically designed to react to your actions in interesting ways, switching up attacks and swarming in from all directions.

Your near-unsurmountable quest is aided by tons of loot and upgrades, as well as some very handy companions who will aid you if freed from cells. Gameplay is fast, chaotic and incredibly fun. Nearing the end of development, the devs have launched a Kickstarter to raise funds to bring it to more platforms, add a bit of polish and squash any bugs. It’s already very impressive though, and features the same type of one-more-run gameplay that makes The Binding of Isaac so appealing. A very addictive retro roguelike.

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Last Ark is an interesting roguelike space adventure that sees you controlling a symbiote who’s piloting a craft containing all that remains of the human race, as you search the Universe for a planet that can support life.

As you explore the Universe you’ll have to make some pretty tough decisions in order to manage your energy, health and resource levels. As you search for a suitable home, you’ll need to gather Oxygen and resources from planets ans use solar power to charge your batteries. Resources are used to upgrade the ship and keep your symbiote alive - but if you’re in a pinch, you can sacrifice a human (which will also stop your O2 levels dropping so fast).

There’s a constant balancing act in Last Ark as you race to find a suitable home planet. When you find a planet to land on and set down the game is over - so choose wisely. It has 5 different endings depending on how many humans are left alive, and you’ll have to be a very good captain (or very lucky) to save them all.

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