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I've sunk probably a thousand hours into Slay the Spire, have beaten Hades, and just finished Cult of the Lamb. Looking for something else to scratch that itch- preferably on switch. Any suggestions?

Update: Y'all convinced me. I bought Binding of Isaac and am excited to start. I also tried out Dead Cells via Netflix, but feel like I'd prefer it with a controller compared to mobile. Gonna start with Isaac, and wait for a sale on Dead Cells. Thank you for all the recommendations! I'm saving this thread for future reference.

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[–] don@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can vouch for nearly all of the suggestions in this thread, and suggest one I haven’t seen: Vampire Survivors. I’m not one much for anything to do with vampires, but the mechanics with this one are really pretty good.

If you’ve ever seen bullet hell games like Touhou, it’s kind of like that, but you are the bullet hell. You also only have one real control during the action part of the game and that is to move your character around the non-stop enemy swarms that come at you.

Your character has a weapon and automatically uses that weapon without any input from you, and as you kill enemies, you collect gems that allow you to upgrade that weapon that constantly fires. You also get chances for other item and weapons upgrades with the intent to learn their “unions” (a la The Binding of Isaac) where items work together to create fantastical “bullet heaven” screen-clearing destruction.

There’s probably a wiki about it, but it’s really pretty damn good.

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've beat all the levels of vampire survivors too! I forgot- I was OBSESSED when it first came out

[–] don@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Awesome! I also just started playing Hades, which you may want to check out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades_(video_game)?wprov=sfti1

[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Pathway is fun and I think counts as a Roguelite. If you also enjoy Rhythm games I would recommend Crypt of the NecroDancer. There's also Peglin that is pretty good. Getting off the switch I want to recommend Noita, but that game is also kinda intense in terms of both brutal difficulty and just how much stuff there is the game puts out of the way. I will also second the other recommendations for Darkest Dungeon, Risk of Rain 2, and Enter the Gungeon.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I said Noita is my favourite roguelite, but actually Heat Signature is probably tied with it. It has a completely different philosophy of soft failure.

If your character dies in space, they're dead, but they can also be captured, then another character can rescue them. And if a mission is going sideways, you can huck a wrench through a window and fling yourself into space, as long as you're confident you can pick yourself up with your space pod before you pass out.

It's very fast-paced with quick runs. Each character that comes along has different traits, and you can have 4 different people on the go at once. Each character has their individual quest - which can be rescuing another character - and when that's done you can retire them or keep them going.

It's very open to how you want to play.

Oh! Also, if you're trying to do your character's big final mission and it goes wrong, usually you can bail and try again. I lost quite a few characters before I realised that.

[–] ClipperDefiance@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried Mystery Dungeon? I think there are four of them on Switch. There's Shiren the Wanderer 5 & 6, Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon Every Buddy, and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX. If you've never tried the Mystery Dungeon format, then I'd recommend playing the demo for the Pokemon one to see if you like it first.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've played several Shiren games (1 on DS, 3 on Wii, 5 and 6 on Switch) and I recommend Shiren 6 (Mystery Dungeons of Serpentcoil Island).

5 kinda went too far from its roguelike roots and feels too grindy, with too many ways to escape safely, especially easy ways to undo your death indefinitely.

6 is a lot more fun to me and makes good runs and crazy builds more special again.

For a very good introduction to the series, if you can play it, the port of Shiren 1 on DS is great and already has a lot of what makes those games fun. There is also a rom hack translation for the original on Super Famicom (that one only existed in Japanese), but I've not played that one much.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Two of my favorites are Vagante and Streets of Rogue. Vagante is a great challenge with all sorts of build variety and interesting choices to make along the way. Streets of Rogue is comedy and chaos. Both are a great time either single player or in co-op, either local or online.

[–] Lodra@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This isn’t exactly a rogue like but there are some similar aspects and I find that it satisfies in the same way. The game is Backpack Battles. Available on Steam. There’s a free demo available too with full mechanics but limited character options.

This is my default game more for when I have a few minutes to relax and nothing more pressing to do

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have generally found roguelikes to be too difficult, so if you want a turn-taking, strategic one that leans into the easier side while letting you set up many ridiculous combinations, I enjoy "Backpack Hero". You get a Resident Evil 4 styled inventory screen, and must arrange/place items for an optimal build. You generally get rewarded for stacking similar items.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

The Bazaar is a similar game releasing soon. It's still primarily focused on developing synergies between items in your build, but there's more varied events between pvp fights and configuring your pack is simpler because it's on a line rather than a grid, if that makes sense. It will be releasing as free to play probably in February or March.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Dead cells and rogue legacy 1/2 were a lot of fun. Check out nethack if you want something more casual for mobile or in a terminal, it's a classic. Switch specific I'd say check out dead cells or Isaac. If you want something casual without a big story or learning a bunch of RPG systems you might want to check out donut county, goose game, or golf story.

[–] Graphy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I’ll try to name some unusual ones I enjoy

Pokerogue - a Pokémon one that’s surprisingly well made but grindy

Rogue tower - tower defense

Peglin - pachinko roguelite

Backpack battles - a weird inventory game where you auto battle other peoples builds but it’s not really pvp so don’t worry if you’re not into that

[–] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Having a lot of fun with Tiny Rogues. It's still in development, and will be for another year probably. However it has enough content for dozens of hours of fun!

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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Technically not... exactly a rogue like, but:

Deus Ex w/ Randomizer Mod and PermaDeath.

You can set it up fairly easily the Steam version of DX and the Revision Mod, which at this point is basically all the most popular DX mods, reconfigured to play nice with each other and be as mutually compatible as possible.

Someone already mentioned Caves of Qud, that one is amazing, Noita is really good, also StarSector is functionally a roguelike but in space.

Also No Mans Sky is basically a rogue like if you turn on permadeath, kick the difficulty up.

[–] OmgItBurns@discuss.online 1 points 4 months ago

If you've got interest in deep simulation mechanics you can check out Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. It's FOSS and, last I checked, still has an active developer community.

[–] Famko@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I've been recently playing Kingsway which is a pretty unique roguelite RPG where the entire game takes place in a fake operating system inspired by the Windows 95 interface. Only on Steam though iirc.

Pretty fun, though I wish there were mods to increase the amount of content in the game.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A couple weirder Rogue-lite suggestions:

Against the Storm is a Rogue-lite City Builder, which sounds like 2 things that shouldn't go together but works surprisingly well. It has a generous demo on Steam that lets you freely play up to level 6 or something in the standard biome, so give it a try

Shape-Hero Factory is a Rogue-lite Factory Builder. Another weird combination that is surprisingly effective. It's in Early Access so there's a lot of features that are still planned, but you can do full runs and go up to I think Ascension 6. It had a demo during nextfest, not sure if the demo is still there.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Against the storm is pretty fun

+1

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Came here to suggest The Binding of Isaac, but it looks like people already convinced you. Hope you love it! I've achieved 100% completion at around 870 hours, and one of my acquaintances is currently at 4.1k hours played of that. It's an incredible amount of fun

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

I don't have a lot of experience with roguelike games. Before I even knew about the genre I played quite a bit of Spelunkey. As someone who loves Super Mario Bros I thought that game was great. I recently found Vagante and am having a lot of fun with it. It gives off Spelunkey vibes, but is more traditional fantasy.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Star traders frontiers if you want a more management spacy concept

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