(Hardly a) Monthly RL: Faster Than Light

Maybe not even a roguelike, at least not a traditional one, but it's not like I've played any new ones in the recent months, so FTL: Faster Than Light will have to suffice. And it certainly has the appropriate difficulty. Though I did beat it in less than a week's time (on Normal).

Monthly RL: AliensRL

Since my 7DRL this year will be a sci-fi shooter (if I succeed that is), I thought it might be useful to scout out some ideas from existing shooter roguelikes. DoomRL I have already played, so I picked the next best thing; AliensRL. Which is made by the same guy, btw -- Kornel Kisielewicz.

Monthly RL: Tales of Maj'Eyal

I thought I should get back to playing those roguelikes. And what would be a better game to start with than the one that has won the Ascii Dreams Roguelike of the Year title three times in a row and is now finally out of beta.

Those Monthly Roguelikes...

I've tried a handful of roguelikes over the summer but with each of them I very rapidly got a feeling of not wanting to play them, and just quit. And writing about a game one haven't even played for half an hour is dumb in my opinion. So I guess fun and games are on hiatus till I stumble upon a roguelike that actually makes me want to play it.

(May's) Monthly RL: DDRogue

I blame triple-A games for luring me in with their high production values and preventing me from playing (and developing) those roguelikes. Thus May's Monthly RL comes a bit late. But I guess it's better late than never.

Monthly RL: HyperRogue

Somehow this managed to slip to the last day of the month again. And instead of Jacob's Matrix, I played a bit of HyperRogue, made by Z (Necklace of the Eye, Hydra Slayer).

Monthly RL: Vicious Orcs

I decided to try a roguelike that uses libtcod for a change and ended up downloading Jeff Lait's "once again even still yet another" 7DRL, Vicious Orcs, one of the last year's entries.

Monthly RL: Hydra Slayer

In Z's Hydra Slayer your goal is to clear a cave system filled with hydras of all kinds. Hydras have a nasty habit of growing heads back if the creature is not killed outright. Different weapons chop off different amount of heads, and thus some tactics are required.

Monthly RL: Quickband

Ever since it was featured in Roguelike Radio's Episode 15, I have wanted to try Antoine's Quickband. Last weekend I finally got myself to play it.