WHAT IS A ROGUELIKE? [Roguelike vs Roguelite]

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[youroldestfriend]

You absolutely can not convince me that those two game creators of rouge are not the same man.

[PANCAKEPAP]

"Roguelike" every reviewer of Returnal at the moment

[MoonNerdy]

Thanks Tyler! That was very informative, and very well made.
Now after I have this info, it finally solved my confusion on why steam labels things as Roguelites, and I no longer feel dumb thinking maybe I always misheard when people say Roguelike. :D keep up the good work!

[halabackatchya]

I did hear people say “roguelike” and “roguelite” and I thought someone was just wrong. Good to know they are differentish

[scavengersix]

Thanks for explaining the roguelike criteria. Knowing that helps a lot because I've been kicking around the idea for a roguelite game and because I don't enjoy turn-based combat, a real-time battle system is a must for me, but I wasn't sure if it qualified as a roguelike.

Now I know. 👍

[JFTL]

I would say “Spelunky” and the other examples are more like platformers. When I see the original “Rogue”, I immediately think of “Castle Adventure” which came about several years later. It might be the first video game I ever played. Great video.👍🏻👾

[Shells]

Roguelites like the Binding of Isaac and Enter the Gungeon honestly have a lot more in common with classic arcade maze games like Berzerk and Frenzy. Id argue the Binding of Isaac especially has similar gameplay to Berzerk - it even has a character in the DLC that mirrors Berzerk more closely, by having an enemy follow you throughout the entire game that can be taken advantage of to defeat enemies.

That is, when it comes to their shooting and movement mechanics, and random room generation. The different items and resources are something that was not present in those arcade games.

[Squirmsss]

The game that most resembles rouge to me is Pokémon mystery dungeon

[wingnutmcspazatron]

Wow a very specific video that provided me the answer to the question I've been asking. Thanks for this.

[JonathanARae]

Thanks for putting together this video. Always really wondered what it truly was.

[jonathanfowler]

That's awesome. I'm designing a game in Python and you just made me realise that it falls under the 'roguelike' catagory. neat.

[SergioMnl]

Chocobo's dungeon 2 and Chocobo's mystery dungeon, absolutely legendary games and it's interesting that it falls under the rougelike category

[danielgoyena]

0:47 the 2 pictures are from de same person... someone noticed it?

[mehranmahdlou]

At this point, the understanding of roguelike and roguelike is so clouded that we might as well drop the term roguelite and call them all roguelikes. That's what everyone does, anyway. It's more convenient, imo.

[BlackHero]

Rougelikes are fun and rougelites are also fun










Thats all you need to know

[thebaku]

Oh, so that's what Metallic Child has going on

[cmyk]

Apparently I’ve played a Roguelike before—namely, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon.

[bjf]

ahh finally I know what this genre is. I've been gaming sicne '86 but only the past few years have I seen an explosion in this genre. Not my type of gaming though.

[agmonblynkos]

well I knew about them but didn't know if there are differences, guess this vid showed me that thanks olexa

[krzysiekj]

came here to understand big picture behind Tainted Grail.
Turns out its nothing more than combat part of d&d.
Much appreciated vid