What Makes A Good Roguelike/Roguelite?

other roguelikes: we're going to put an immense amount of time and effort into creating robust and varied procedurally generated environments
brotato: square 😎

I love how every video about roguelikes ever uses the risk of rain soundtrack cause its just that good

I'm actually developing a roguelike right now and this video brought up some very good design tips! Thank you for making it! It has certainly influenced my project!

We're in the process of making a "Roguelike(like?)" and getting input like this from huge fans of the genre is absolutely invaluable, got a sub here

I like that you do not only cite the most well-known games.

This came up on my feed for some reason and hey these analyses type videos are just my jam. Great voice, background music just fits, passionate yet analytic approach that infects the viewer, and incredibly informative (especially for aspiring game devs). Honestly, I listen to these while doing something else but I somehow kept getting distracted and looking at the video and just appreciating every bit. Definitely subscribing and hoping you get more subs and views (the views rn are criminally low)

Honestly i think my favourite part of the video was the sheer variety of games you included! The editing and voice over was great, don't get me wrong, but I get so frustrated booting up a video essay like this just to find its filled with the same 3 games. There are a lot of lessons you can learn from the smaller ones too, and im glad that you know that.
I also like the fact that even with the huge games that everyone talks about, you go way more in-depth than just the surface like everyone else seems to do. like with enter the gungeon being the game you used as the opener for enemy design! Its such a specific part about a very popular game that most people wouldn't be able to point out and use as an example of how to do things right, but you were able to do that!
Things like this is a true mark of a professional and not just some random gamer talking about the same 5 games. It gives actual insight to this topic instead of re-iterating what I already know, ynkow?

As a fan of rougelikes, this is a fun watch. I can't believe how high quality it is but while having such low views. Keep on doing this Pepperhead. I subscribed.

Speaking of curses in items, Nethack does some really funny things with cursed items, such as a cursed potion of gain level actually making you go up a level in the dungeon, cursed scrolls of genocide actually create monsters, cursed scrolls of teleportation will levelport you instead of a regular teleport, which is really nice if you have teleport control, etc.

And DAAAMN the chapters, the editing and graphic choices,

Dude, you put in a TOOOON OF work into this!!!!!!!! Well done and highly appreciatedd(as well as noticed 😂)lol

As a concept artist working in AAA, who is now (also) working on solo developing their own project, I found this video invaluable in regards to perspective. You helped me understand things about my approach that I didn't realize. Thank you!

As an avid roguelike gamer, and one who has seen many videos on this topic by much bigger channels. This video I feel does the best at really capturing what makes a roguelike-lite great. I never see channels use games that arent that popular when talking about this particular dungeon. Plus the way you explain replayability with items/upgrades that are impactful in terms of how you play not how effective you are at playing really hit the nail on the head. Consider me a fan!

this ain't just a great video, it's one of the most well thought out, researched and informative analyses on game design I've seen to date. I'm seriously impressed by this.

My favorite genre! It’s been wild to be a huge fan of this kind of game since the days of early Isaac and now we’re seeing so many AAA games implement entire game modes based on them.

An incredibly helpful, insightful and overall great video! I will definitely subscribe. It was also nice seeing Revita here as well, it is truly a hidden gem of a game.

I am honestly so suprised you didn't bring up risk of rain 2 when you were talking about music, the music while fighting mitrix is some of the best music out there

The trick to backpack hero is holding on to multiple items of different major synergies early and then choose one to follow through with depending on what items you find and abandoning the others.

This video single handedly got me playing and addicted to Revita you talked so much about it and I never heard about it prior to this. But I absolutely love the game and it became one of my favorite roguelikes out there

i personally like rougelikes more as permadeath and progression based off your own skill feels more rewarding but they are both awesome

Amazing video!! this perfectly sums up my love of all rougelikes/lites i’ve played in an individual level. also i’m so glad you mentioned dungreed, it’s such an unknown game but it’s honestly such a work of art. dungreed was the game which made me fall in love with rougelikes/lites