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, an experienced games journo turned media strategist who wanted to build something for himself.
What we’re all about
Rogueliker is aimed squarely at celebrating all things roguelike, roguelite, and roguelike adjacent. Sometimes 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 several toplists. However, I have played a whole bunch of rogue-ish games in my career, so the lists are at least going to be comprehensive. Importantly, we’re not going to include games that we’ve not played ourselves – we’ll never outsource our opinions from Reddit or other gaming websites.
How and why we monetise the site
As you can see, there are adverts across the site. We would very much like to turn this into a full-time job, and thanks to these ads and Playwire, we’re getting closer to that goal.
We love the games that we write about here, 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 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 called Playwire, 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. So, if you’re a game developer and your game doesn’t appear in a specific toplist, and you genuinely think that it should be there, get in touch (email below) and we’ll take a look, time permitting.
We get far more games than we can ever hope to cover, so there are no promises. Furthermore, this is a game recommendations site, where we will focus on games we like, rather than stuff that we don’t, so we won’t write about a game just for the sake of it.
I’ve also taken the decision to focus on games made by people. That is, games that are not made using generative AI. I don’t use it when writing, and I’m not particularly interested in playing something that was made that way. If you’ve used gen-AI to make assets that appear in your project, I’m just going to focus on another game.
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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