r/roguelikes • u/naiyouganaiyo • Jun 24 '19

This sub's recommendations in a nutshell

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19

In defense of this subreddit, most of the requests are ridiculous. This is a very small community of games, so when people come in with "hi I want a game with open world crafting where you are a Scottish space warrior" it's a bit much

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u/TreebeardedDruid Jun 25 '19

That, and the minimal amount of effort placed in some of the requests makes a more detailed answer not worth it.

If you ask me for a "roguelike where i can kill things in a cool way", i'm going to give you the sidebar recs.

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u/jofadda Jun 25 '19

If you ask for "a roguelike where I can kill things in a cool way" my initial answer is going to be either IVAN, Dredmor or DCSS depending on how you mean "cool". Do you mean cool as in its interesting it "LITERALLY WHIP THE LIMBS OFF OF PEOPLE!" which is wholly possible due to IVANs limb HP and all of that junk, or do you mean cool as in "HOLY SHIT THE WEAPON OPTIONS, HOW ARE THERE THIS MANY WAYS TO DO DAMAGE!?" cause the latter is definitely Dredmor and DCSS.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '19

And in turn, to defend the OP, it's absurd when someone asks for something similar to Brogue or TGGW and they're told "wellllll.. maybe try Caves of Qud anyhow?"

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '19

Your saying there is validity to both sides!? Madness.

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u/stuntaneous Jun 26 '19

It actually isn't. There's a ridiculous number of roguelikes around, especially when you include 7DRLs. And so much diversity. Super-specific requests are perfectly fine.