Tuesday 8 January 2008

The R word

Play This Thing has referred to roguelike games for the last two games it's reviewed: Meritous and Transcendence. This echoes an argument I'll always make: that games and game designers outside the genre have a lot to learn from the writers of roguelikes.

I'd like to propose a new genre that encompases games of this nature, called roguelike-likes. Roguelike-like games are clearly not roguelikes but have been designed and/or inspired by Rogue and its ilk.

You've probably voted for a few in the latest poll.

5 comments:

Joshua Smyth said...

That's quite funny, just the other day I was thinking that Diablo wasn't a Roguelike, but it was a Rougelike-like.

Worthstream said...

Great!
This should pose an end to the endless debates on wheter or not Dwarf Fortress and Diablo are rouguelikes.

Yay for the new genre of roguelike-likes! :)

If one like this new genre is a roguelike-likes-liker? ;)

Mikolaj said...

I don't like roguelike-likes.

Andrew Doull said...

Notice I also covered my bases about whether or not roguelike has a hyphen...

Patrick said...

Personally, I say evolve. I want to see Rouge-like-like-likes that replace NLP AI with combat.