I have been very active in the roguelites sub on Reddit, all the while really chafing at using Reddit as a platform. Their enshittification and moderation practices are increasingly dysfunctional and I’d love to find similar community around roguelite games here in the Fedi.
I’m fairly new to the genre — discovered Returnal in 2025 and since then have voraciously been playing as many of the classics AND the newest titles as I can get my hands on. I play on Playstation, and my favorites recently are:
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Returnal
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Astral Ascent
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Inscryption
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Spiritfall
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Entropy Survivors
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Soulstone Survivors
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Brotato
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Hades 1 & 2
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Blazblue Entropy Effect X
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Dead Cells
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Night Swarm
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Nuclear Throne
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RoboQuest
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Warriors Abyss
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Enter the Gungeon
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The Land Beneath Us
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Downwell
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Saros
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate
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Absolum
What about you — what are your favorites?
Returnal is my #1 all time, now battling my way through REDACTED among others. That and Warm Snow are tough! I haven’t gotten far in either.
I agree that BoI doesn’t do it for me but I’m still playing it to see what the big deal is, probably 5 hours in. It does have interesting build variety but so far it’s not enough to make up for the ugly / gross game design and simplistic combat.
Surprised to hear you like REDACTED but not Hades! I am close to 100%ing Hades 2 and it’s 🤌✨ even better than the first.