Welcome, Dear Reader
As you’ve arrived on this most functional of webpages, I’m going to go ahead and assume that you would like to find out a bit more about Rogueliker, who we are, and what we’re trying to do here.
This particular corner of the Internet was established in late 2023 by Mike Holmes, a long-time games journalist trying to set up his own thing and save his health/sanity at the same time.
Since then, Mike’s friend and long-time collaborator Kieran Harris has joined the party. First, he jumped in to help when Mike was struggling with his health, but he stuck around and became part of the furniture, and now he’s utterly indispensable.
What we’re all about
Rogueliker is aimed squarely at celebrating all things roguelike, roguelite, and roguelike adjacent. To be fair, we’re going to stretch that a bit and talk about other things that we’re passionate about, but we won’t do that too often, and we’re only going to broaden our coverage to include things that we can talk about with authority.
While we are going to do news, reviews, interviews, and features, we’re also going to maintain our toplists. There’s not much I can do about that; such is the offering one must make to the SEO gods these days. However, I have played a whole bunch of rogue-ish games in my career, so the lists are at least going to be fairly comprehensive. Importantly, we’re not going to include games that we’ve not played ourselves – we’ll never outsource our opinions from Reddit.
How and why we monetise the site
As you can see, there are adverts across the site. Mike doesn’t draw a salary from these ads, as Rogueliker remains a personal project for him. Kieran, on the other hand, spends a lot more time writing on the site than Mike does, and it’s his bills that the adverts are covering. There are also a couple of contributors who share their thoughts from time to time, and we try to make sure they get something, too.
That said, none of us is really doing this for the money. If we were, we’d be writing about GTA6 or something like that. We love the games that we write about, and we want to champion the people who make them. Rogueliker was established precisely so we could write about the projects we couldn’t write about when we worked at major outlets, because those sites want you to focus on triple-A stuff. After all, that’s where they make a lot of their money.
This freedom allows us to focus on games that we genuinely recommend, and it is also why we don’t need to sell placements of any kind, whether they’re backlinks to casinos or recommendations for free-to-play gachas. It’s important to us that you can trust our opinions aren’t influenced by financial considerations, which is why we work with an external partner who sources all of our ads and handles that side of things for us – it means that we don’t have to think about it and can stay focused on the games.
Contact Rogueliker
Speaking of which, there are hundreds of rogue-infused games out there these days, and there are just two of us. So, if you’re a game developer and your game doesn’t appear in a specific toplist, and you genuinely think that it should, let me know and we’ll take a look, time permitting.
We get far more games than we can ever hope to cover, so no promises. Furthermore, this is a game recommendations site, where we will focus on games we like, rather than stuff that we don’t.
Finally, if you’ve ever had any questions or concerns about any of the content you read here on Rogueliker, please reach out. Your questions might well be answered in our review and privacy policies, but if not, my email is below. I’d love to hear from you:
editor@rogueliker.com
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