Category: Roguelike

QuickPans: Extremely Quick Edition

  11/30/2025       Act      4 Comments

I play so many bad games, but the sins of the bad games I’ve played over the past 6 months are largely of the boring and bland variety and don’t seem any more interesting to review than they were to play. Nonetheless, here they are with a sentence or two about why I disliked them.

I originally thought this post would be far longer but it turns out there’s a good deal of games I marked as disliked that I just straight up don’t remember.

Inside: Little Wings Deliveries, Newt One, Planet of Lana, Bugtopia, Grapple Dog, Spells and Secrets, Flooded, Jusant, Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles, One Lonely Outpost, Kamaeru: Frog Refuge

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   Adventure, Deckbuilding, Farm Sim, Idler, Indie, Platformers, Precision Platformer, Puzzle Platformer, Roguelike, Sim, Video Games      , , , , , , , , , ,

Darkest Dungeon 2: Secrets of the Coven

  05/29/2026       St. Elmo's Fire      10 Comments

So I thought I was finished with Darkest Dungeon 2 after I reviewed it on release, but it turns out that while I wasn’t looking they released a whole new game mode that’s more like a strategy game. In general I think the new game mode works a lot better with the core gameplay, but that’s not what I want to talk about. What I want to talk about is one of the story modules that goes with it, which is “What if witches were actually inhuman monsters and it was okay to kill them to the last?”

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QuickRecs: Roguelikes

  06/20/2026       Act      12 Comments

I’ve been on a big roguelike kick lately (well, more than usual).

These are largely three subgenres — 2D bullet heavens, twin-stick dungeon crawlers, and roguelike deckbuilders. These are the three genders, actually.

These are gameplay-first, not narrative, largely because I’ve been very, very tired but also because sometimes you just want games to be fun.

Inside: Dogpile, Army of Ruin, Pesticide Not Required, Machick, DunHero, Juicy Realm

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