Hey there, friends, welcome back to another entry in my release schedule round-up series – Gone Rogue – which once again is absolutely packed with interesting roguelike and roguelite games that have just launched, either in Early Access, the big 1.0 milestone, or a follow-up release on console.
The big difference from previous write-ups is that this one considers a longer period of time, as I’ve not been able to do much for the last couple of weeks. As such, I’ve have to be more selective than usual, otherwise I think this page would be simply overwhelming and unmanageable.
On top of skipping demos and prologue builds, I’ve also been passing over anything too raunchy, free-to-play stuff and anything blockchainy, or games that are very low effort. Other than that, it’s all fair game, with action-roguelites, roguelike deckbuilders, turn-based rogues, and much more besides.
From Die in the Dungeon to Jupiter Hell on Switch
As per, I’m putting what little money I have where my big fat mouth is, and I’ve picked up a couple of games from those listed below. When I’ve finally got the headspace to play them properly, expect to see some reviews for games including Die in the Dungeon, Fish Fear Me, Dawnfolk, Moonbase Lambda, and Gunforged. My lovely wife also took a shine to Grimoire Groves, so we picked that up, too.
This month’s cover game is Knights in Tight Spaces, and I did enjoy the first game in that burgeoning series. There are also some big hitters getting console releases, such as Spelunky 2 (on PS5) and Jupiter Hell (which is blasting its way onto the Switch). In fact, it has been a great month from Switch owners, with Star of Providence another of the games to make it on to Nintendo’s console.
I’ve managed to keep it just under 50 games, but that is still a lot to get through. So, grab a warm drink and get comfortable as we sift through a month’s worth of interesting roguish games, with platform and developer details, and as described in their own words. (PS. If you’re a dev and I missed your game – sorry).
Spelunky 2 | Mossmouth | March 6 | PS5 | “Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Explore the game alone, play locally with up to four players, or, for the first time, join up with friends online to unravel its mysteries together (or battle it out in competitive Arena modes).”
Hunt the Pale Gods | Nick Papageorgiou | March 6 | PC (Win) | “A cosmic horror roguelike tactical deck builder. Fight nightmarish creatures, add cards to your deck, discover powerful curios and combine all their unique effects in game breaking synergies. Awaken and Hunt the Pale Gods.”
Sentinel Point Heroes | Jellybane | March 6 | PC (Win) | “A turn based, roguelike deck-builder where your cards cost time to play so you will need to plan ahead to win. The game features a high level of variability where you can combine power sources and change difficulty settings, or use mods to make it your own.”
Moonbase Lambda | Thunderfox Games | March 6 | PC (Win) | “The base is silent—as if abandoned. The air feels heavy, and oxygen is running out. In the shadows, something stirs. You can hear it, but you can’t see it. Every step echoes in the darkness, every sound makes your pulse race. Survive. Escape. Before time runs out.”
Gruel | Mick Sengers, Cheesebaron | March 5 | PC (Win) | “Go on a rampage in this endless arcade Boomer-Shooter! Gain the weirdest weapons and destroy all the monsters in the never-ending temple of GRUEL!”
Monster Portal | Nicholas Jauregui, Fanatic | March 5 | PC (Win) | “Monster Portal is a roguelite with dungeon-crawler like elements. It follows one of your world’s last few powerful heroes, sent on a quest to rid the planet of monsters and their gruesome overlords that have overtaken your world from hellish dimensions.”
Golden Warden | xpii | March 5 | Win (PC), Switch | “A rogue-like battle game with easy controls. Pick a card each turn as you aim for the dungeon depths and attempt to claim the treasure that the Golden Warden protects as your own.”
Fantasy Madness: Bloodbath | Night Steed Games | March 5 | PC (Win) | “Fantasy Madness: Bloodbath is a roguelike action-survival game where forces of nature fight against hordes of evil. Gain new skills, loot powerful items and defeat all who stand in your way… By all means!”
Gumballs & Dungeons | Qcplay | March 5 | PC (Win) | “With over 23 million loyal players (and counting), G&D is coming onto Steam – FOR FREE! Make the dungeon incredible again with long-lost Gumballs in this roguelike adventure full of easter eggs!”
CardScrawl | Mire Studios | March 4 | PC (Win) | “Enter the Chaotic Tower and take part in the Tower Lord’s gambit in this Auto Battler, Roguelike Deckbuilder. Wielding the power of your Creature and Enchantment decks, the limits of your strategy will be tested. The Tower Lord awaits a worthy opponent. Are you ready?”
Shadowveil: Legend of the Five Rings | Palindrome Interactive | March 4 | PC (Win) | “Train unique samurai, embark on missions, and play the cards dealt each run on an epic roguelite adventure in the Legend of the Five Rings universe. Each defeat opens new strategic skill tree options and more powerful cards to face the growing threat in the Shadowlands.”
Grimoire Groves | Stardust | March 4 | PC (Win) | “Join the witches in their quest to restore the Grimoire Groves! Master magic, grow cute plant creatures and discover the mystery of the Rainbow Socks in this cozy, rogue-lite dungeon crawler.”
Knights in Tight Spaces | Ground Shatter | March 4 | PC (Win) | “Control your environment, gather your party, and build your best deck to overcome outlaws and supernatural forces, across a rich fantasy world. Watch as your tactical choices and deckbuilding prowess play out through stylish fight sequences.”
Cast Out Colony | Wooshido | March 3 | PC (Win) | “Cast Out Colony combines roguelite and bullet-heaven action with robust town-building elements. Choose from various characters, fight hordes of foes, and grow your colony, which in return grows your stats, offering a unique twist on the survival genre.”
Forestygian | Sergii & Michael Levtushenko | March 3 | PC (Win) | “Tactical Roguelike Deckbuilder with ability-based combat, fueled by card synergies. Build a powerful deck to support your hero. Use abilities to wipe out hordes of enemies. Discover powerful combos within the near-endless variety of composite cards.”
Hepatomancy | Etrusca Games | March 3 | PC (Lin, Win) | “Hepatomancy is a FPS roguelike. Delve deep in an ever shifting temple complex. Learn the esoteric secrets of the ruins and their inhabitants, and do your best to reach the inner-most chamber.”
Moon’s Creed | Creedon Games | Feb 28 | PC (Win) | “Choose your zodiac hero. Craft unique decks. Collect astral boons. Vanquish corrupted constellations. Ascend through cosmic chaos!”
Death Horizon: Cyberfusion | Horizon Lab | Feb 27 | PC VR | “Cyberfusion is a VR roguelike, physics-based, full-body FPS that immerses you in a futuristic battlefield. Featuring cybernetic implants and procedurally generated levels, this game challenges you to adapt and survive in a world where your body is your ultimate weapon.”
Shift’n Slay | DREBOT game studio | Feb 27 | PC (Win) | “Shift’n Slay is an amped-up turn-based tactical roguelike, where you fight your way through a cyberpunk hell step by step, trying to break a time loop engineered by corporate bastards.”
Darkest Mine | Crazy Rooster Games | Feb 27 | PC (Win) | “Darkest Mine is a roguelite action-plateformer with built-in co-op. Fight your way through monster-filled shadowy caves, take your pick from a large panel of abilities and weapons, adapt your choices, and create unique expeditions!”
Defying the Shadows | Tzhaar | Feb 27 | PC (Win) | “Embark on a tactical roguelite adventure where you assemble your team of heroes to battle the Shadow army in turn-based combat. Test your strategy, adaptability and progress through the game to upgrade your characters and unlock new ones, shaping your ultimate squad for the battles ahead!”
Eden Survivors | Aeternum Game Studios | Feb 27 | Switch | “Eden Survivors is an intense action roguelike where you must fight endless waves of enemies in a world on the brink of collapse. Choose from unique heroes, unlock devastating abilities, and create unstoppable power combos to survive.”
Footgun: Underground | CobraTekku Games | Feb 26 | Switch | “You wake up sometime in the future in a cryo capsule. You don’t know who you are, but one thing is clear: You have a cybernetic leg, a ball and enemies to fight! Master your new weapon, explore this strange underground world and try to escape this post-apocalyptic madness.”
BlueCloud Summit | StarSurfer | Feb 26 | PC (Win) | “Ascend above the blue clouds to the highest point in the world, where a gateway to a heavenly realm awaits. To thrive on this journey, you must strategize carefully, take calculated risks, and craft a unique deck that emphasizes powerful synergies.”
Probability Dungeon | NiNauk | Feb 23 | PC (Win) | “A turn-based roguelike where skills have a probability of execution. You will have to keep improving your list of skills and decide in which order you want them to be executed! Set your strategy, create synergies and try to overcome the different threats.”
Rogue Rhythym | SLASH@HEART | Feb 21 | PC (Win) | “A roguelike with rhythm-based combat. Learn a new mechanic after every boss and become skilled enough to challenge God Himself!”
Whisker Squadron: Survivor | Flippfly | Feb 21 | PC (Lin, Mac, Win), PS5 | “A smooth roguelite shooter from the creators of RACE THE SUN, featuring a voiced cast of feline pilots in a dramatic showdown against corporate-powered robots called The Swarm. Features a 3-act campaign with branching paths, epic bosses, and a wide arsenal of pilots, ships, and weapons.”
Die in the Dungeon | ATICO | Feb 21 | PC (Mac, Win) | “Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don’t use cards, but dice! Deal with enemies by combining powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.”
Fish Fear Me | Heather Flowers | Feb 21 | PC (Win) | “A top-down action roguelite about catching fish, fighting them, selling their bones, and catching more fish. Upgrade your boat and weapons, hunt down sea monster bounties, delve into eldritch mysteries, and try to pay off a cosmic debt millennia in the making.”
Dungeonfell | Bad Fox Studios | Feb 21 | PC (Win) | “Step into Dungeonfell – a single-player tactical, turn-based, Roguelite – where you command a group of Delvers in their quest to save Dungeonfell. Battle through the Dungeon, taking on waves of Monsters, and collecting valuable treasure to upgrade your Delvers.”
Break the Loop | Mastadonte | Feb 21 | PS5, Xbox | “Break the Loop is a turn-based Rogue-like RPG. Compose your team and create a timeline by selecting the events you’ll go through. Each decision will bring you one step closer to the ultimate threat, but will you have accumulated enough power to stop the apocalypse?”
Jupiter Hell | ChaosForge | Feb 20 | Switch | “Do you miss the good old days when games weren’t holding your hand? Then you’re in the perfect place. In Jupiter Hell – Action follows your every move. When you act, your enemies act. But when you die. You die for good.”
Ashen Arrows | Rusty Pipes Games | Feb 20 | PC VR | “Ashen Arrows is a Nordic mythology-themed VR archery game featuring roguelike gameplay, tower defense elements, and puzzles.”
Star of Providence | Team D-13 | Feb 20 | Switch | “Star of Providence is a top down action shooter with procedurally generated elements. Explore a progression of floors as you make your way into the depths of the facility, encountering increasingly deadly enemies, fantastic weapons, upgrades, choices and revelations as you venture deeper towards a great and calamitous power.”
Spellhack! | Computer Dream | Feb 19 | PC (Win) | “SPELLHACK!! is a real-time survival deckbuilder! Explore Doom City to collect and upgrade Technospells during the day, then defend against waves of Summoned Beasts at night in this totally rad roguelike!!”
Necrocat | Noct Paradox | Feb 18 | PC (Win) | “In a card field, choose wisely your next move on the grid, for every item collected and every monster defeated brings you one step closer to death. Answer the call and uncover Necrocat’s schemes that disrupt the cycle of life!”
Blue Hunter | NourSaiFR | Feb 18 | PC (Win) | “Welcome to hell! Blue Hunter is an RPG roguelike deckbuilder where you forge your own path as a hunter and turn into a god! Create your own army of undead monsters, unlock powerful skills and beat all the gods that stand in your way. How far can you go?”
Gunforged | Firebelley | Feb 17 | PC (Lin, Mac, Win) | “Gunforged is a goofy fantasy roguelite shooter where you create broken builds every run. Forge your guns with randomized gun parts, collect passive abilities, and embed gun-changing runes into your guns to create the ultimate build.”
Sodaman | Tape Corps | Feb 17 | PC (Lin, Mac, Win) | “Sodaman is a bullet-heaven roguelike where you play as a supersoldier fighting alien hordes with soda powers. Find game-breaking sodas and concoct custom cocktails. Discover planets, unlock weapons, sodas, cybernetics, power-up cards, and more. But first, crack open a cold one.”
No-Skin | NoEye-Soft | Feb 17 | PC (Win) | “Horror Roguelike characterized by an experimental artstyle and storytelling, strategic gameplay and deep mysteries.”
Project Tachyon | Studio N9 | Feb 14 | PC (Win) | “An exhilarating run-and-gun action shooting game based on a Roguelite! Travel through time with Sigma to thwart the uprising of artificial intelligence and fight for the future!”
Maraka | David Kaleta | Feb 14 | PC (Win) | “Shoot magnets and send enemy flying! Push, pull, propel and shatter hordes of frenzied creatures with magnetic manipulation. Use environment as your weapon. Kill, collect and craft in this fast-paced action-roguelike game!”
Dawnfolk | Darenn Keller | Feb 13 | PC (Lin, Mac, Win) | “Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark and minimalist survival city-builder. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths to bring light back to the world?”
Warriors: Abyss | Koei Tecmo Games | Feb 12 | PC (Win), PS, Switch, Xbox | “Take command of historic and masterful warriors by challenging countless swarms of enemies. Through victory and defeat, traverse the merciless trials of hell.”
Darkblade Ascent | PST Games | Feb 12 | PC (Win) | “Fast paced First-Person Melee Roguelike RPG with randomly generated weapons and upgrades, unlockable new classes and persistent leveling. Hack and slash your way through atmospheric dark fantasy locations, unique monsters and bosses.”
Sancticide | Red Square Games, Sylen Studio | Feb 12 | PC (Win) | “Become Ezechiel, sin collector in service of Them at The Top, as he ventures through what is left of our world during the End Times. It’s the Apocalypse and his job is to eradicate sin for the glory of God. But can a mere human really endure such fate?”
Novus Orbis | Seizo Games | Feb 10 | PC (Win) | “A combo-based deckbuilding roguelike through a space-time loop: collect cards, receive blessings, add pets to your party, and grow stronger. Chain together cards in the right order for max power, and act before the enemy does. Build synergistic decks, find many secrets, and make BIG numbers!”
Void Frontiers | Alexander Voidoc | Feb 10 | PC (Win) | “Void Frontiers is a survival roguelike set on randomly generated floating islands. Gather resources, craft tools, build your base, and defend against nightly enemy waves. Play solo or team up with up to 4 other players, customizing your playstyle with over 40 unique enhancements.”
Reality Break | Element Games | Feb 10 | PC (Win) | “Rewrite the universe! Break reality to change your fate, and use your powers to stop sinister forces from altering existence itself. Discover the origin of your new abilities in a fast-paced ARPG Loot Collection Roguelite where you will bend, break, and change the laws of the universe!”
