Yo yo yo, you lovely lot, welcome back to another instalment of Gone Rogue, the weekly round-up where I scrape the release schedule for new roguelikes and like a stoner getting the last of the peanut butter out of a jar. As per usual, you won’t find any porno games, no demos and prologues, nor anything that looks like it was made on an etch-a-sketch. With that disclaimer firmly in place, let’s have at it…
Feed the Deep – August 16 – PC (Mac, Win) – “A lovecraftian roguelite. Dive into procedurally generated undersea caves. Collect gold, upgrade your equipment, and Feed the Deep.”
Odd Realm – August 16 – PC (Lin, Mac, Win) – “A mystical colony sim set in a land of fantasy! Lead your settlers to construct a thriving haven, navigating unpredictable seasons, elusive bandits, unseen horrors, and fabled gods.”
Bring It On! – August 16 – PC – “A single-player auto-attacking ‘monster’-hell shoot-em-up survival game. Take on MASSIVE hordes of monsters across several locations, earning experience points to level up and acquire new weapons and items, and unlocking lots of characters!”
Artifice: War Tactics – August 16 – PC – “A turn-based strategy roguelike game with a unique asymmetric combat system. In this game, enemies set up attack zones, while your champions can actively evade and disrupt their strategy using their traits, abilities, or items.”
South Pole Bebop – August 16 – PC – “A multiplayer turn-based strategy game inspired by Into The Breach, set on a 9×9 board, where you control characters and protect bases. Create a unique deck of ability cards and characters. Eliminate the opponent while fending off a zombie horde.”
Creeping Dusk – August 16 – PC (Lin, Win) – “Build a town around an abandoned gold mine and defend against monsters that swarm the area. Fortify your defenses, and prepare for the increasingly challenging nights.”
Dark Lord – August 16 – PC (Mac, Win) – “Unleash your power in Dark Lord, a roguelike RPG filled with strategy, adventure, and sardonic wit. Rule your growing realm with an iron fist in Story Mode, dive deep into the legends created by other players, or forge your own.”
Salvo Shuffle – August 16 – PC – “Salvo Shuffle is a turn-based bullet-hell roguelike with combat mechanics similar to Undertale. Enemies can only damage you by spawning individual bullet-hell attacks.”
Mach K9 – August 15 – PC – “Physics roguelite. Smash aliens out of the arena to defeat them. Choose upgrades after each wave, and complete every wave to win. Unlock additional upgrades as you play.”
Tales & Tactics – August 15 – PC – “Roguelike Squad-based Autobattler in a Tabletop RPG setting. Draft your army, carefully equip and position your units, make important choices, and meet a colorful cast of characters as you make ready for the Grand Tournament.”
Retro Dungeons – August 15 – PC – “A fantasy wave based dungeon crawler with randomized and unique loot. Discover new areas and battle a wide array of different foes in your quest to achieve the fastest dungeon clear time.”
Laser Tanks – August 15 – PC – “A fast-paced top down shooter game where you battle against alien monsters across diverse environments using weapons and laser tanks. The game features wild monsters, numerous weapons, laser tanks to operate, and a never-ending mode.”
The Godfeather: A Mafia Pigeon Saga – August 15 – Switch – “The Godfeather is a mafia pigeon roguelike combining elements of stealth, open world exploration and poop… lots of poop!”
Dawn of Survivor – August 15 – PC – “A third-person survivor roguelike game where waves of zombies come at you. By killing them, you get random opportunities to acquire equipment, weapons, and new skills.”
Heat Plan – August 14 – PC – “A strategy roguelike game about unit placement. Make good use of randomly appearing units and buffs, and strategically place your units within the limited grid spaces on the board to earn more coins and achieve the set goal.”
Lost To Riches – August 14 – PC (Mac, Win) – “Fight your way through an army of demons in order to escape Hell’s Casino! Utilize a variety of powerful items, weapons and holier than thou upgrades, all the while uncovering a conspiracy in this Action Rogue-Lite experience!”
Deck of Defense – August 14 – PC – “A deck-building, tower defense game where you place cards to defend your base. Craft a unique deck, upgrade your abilities, unlock game-breaking defense strategies, and see if your Deck of Defense can stand the test of time.”
To the Stars – August 14 – PC – “A fast-paced, whimsical and tactical planet-hopping game. Choose your own adventure as you conquer the universe – one constellation at a time.”
Beats of Betrayal – August 13 – PC (Lin, Win) – “An adventure game with roguelike mechanics and rhythm-based combat. Explore dungeons, gain skills and grow stronger to defeat challenging bosses and unlock the secrets surrounding the ‘Power of the Waves’!”
Dungeon Arsenal – August 13 – Xbox – “A fast-paced roguelike card game. Go through series of random-generated floors filled with cards for you to reveal. The weapons and items you need for your journey will be among those cards, however, terrible monsters are also waiting to be revealed… Choose your Hero and good luck!”
Adrenalin Rampage – August 13 – PC – “Survivor platformer. Action Roguelike. You are trapped in a distorted space city. You need to survive and return home. Standing in your way are hordes of techno zombies. And something strange is going on in this space city.”
X Invader – August 13 – PC – “An action roguelite where you hack into big corporations’ servers. Use add-ons from fellow hackers to defeat monsters. Powerful, cute bosses guard these servers!”
Compound – August 13 – PS VR2 (also PC VR) – “A randomized, rogue-lite, free-roaming shooter for VR veterans. Duck and dodge around enemy fire in a tough-as-nails retro FPS with multiple locomotion options. Prepare to die – a lot – until you are good enough to reach the heart of The Corporation and take back what belongs to everyone…”
Horde Survivor – August 13 – PC – “Battle hordes of monsters in this top-down roguelite arena bullet hell game. Play alone or with up to 4 players online. Choose what character to play, what stat to gain, and which spell to learn.”
Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate – August 12 – PC, PS5 – “Simultaneously control a sword-wielding robot and a gunslinging space frog in this explosively colourful sci-fi roguelike. Play alone, with a friend, or as part of a four-person team, cutting through waves of enemies.”
Multiversal Time Survivors – August 12 – PC – “Classic Spin on Survivors Genre. Choose one among many characters and Travel though multiple dimensions battling foes.”
Defiance Survivors – August 12 – PC – “A fantasy style casual Roguelike game. There are two modes in the game. To become a hero and survive among monsters, Or to become a summoner summoning monsters and hunting heroes.”
Nova Drift – August 12 – PC (Mac, Win) – “It distills the mechanical depth and strategy of an ARPG into classic arcade space combat. Control an endlessly evolving bio-mechanical ship, face legions of strange and deadly foes, and ride the wake of a dying star across the void.”
Abyss Survivors – August 11 – PC – “A casual game where the corrupted ocean breeds ferocious creatures. Wield your Sutando abilities to defeat them. Dive deeper, level up, and acquire powerful gear. Utilize elemental reactions strategically.”
Tower Knight – August 10 – PC – “Tower Knight is a deck-building & tower defense strategy game. Build your deck to strengthen your position, level up your knight, and win by capturing enemy towers.”
Ravenwood – August 10 – PC – “Play as a hero fighting off enemies in the forest. Advance and learn new abilities to become stronger, but so will the enemies. Can you survive the mystical creatures of Ravenwood?
Demoniac TV – August 10 – PC – “Destroy demoniac TVs with crazy powerups! Demoniac TV is a roguelite with a cyberpunk look that has its game flow in waves. Kill, buy weapons and become stronger! In this mission, exorcising is your final destination.”
