One motion roguelike is surging to the highest of the Steam charts this vacation week courtesy of an replace, with little room-based dungeon crawler Tiny Rogues holding sturdy participant numbers for an indie after the discharge of its Heaven & Hell replace added oodles of recent stuff. Launched late final yr, Tiny Rogues is an motion roguelike that punts you from room to room dodging nasty traps and enemy assaults whereas build up a set of distinctive tools and skills that synergize nicely sufficient to get you thru 10 dungeon flooring and their nasty bosses.
Over the vacations Tiny Rogues has now reached almost twice its all-team peak concurrent gamers, per SteamDB. It is the type of climb we typically see earlier than a recreation will get really, explosively fashionable—although even with out sudden viral progress this one’s on a gradual upward development.
The newest replace left Tiny Rogues with 34 fairly distinctive courses, 20 themed dungeon flooring with 40 totally different potential bosses, 500-some items of kit, 400 totally different weapons, 100 totally different stage traits, and a thick layer of meta-progression and world-changing goal quests on high of all of it.
It is paying homage to a basic dungeon-crawling setup, however has the linear component of a contemporary roguelite the place you decide certainly one of a pair rooms and their matching rewards and the one strategy to transfer is ahead. That is extra like Binding of Isaac, whereas the comparable Brotato power is achieved by the number of weapons to choose up multiplied by the weirdo synergies of all the category powers and level-up traits.
From there, in fact, it’s also possible to specialize the courses into melee, magic, and ranged builds—a few of which get more and more unusual once you discover an odd appeal or accent that hybridizes your construct. Magic-powered rocket launcher/twin uzis construct? Yeah, I’ve accomplished that one, and it kicks ass.
Tiny Rogues is—for me—a perfect Steam Deck recreation. Crank down the CRT filter to account to your smaller display screen, settle for that it is higher with autoaim on, and I feel you’ll find lots of time and enjoyable with it.
You could find Tiny Rogues on Steam, the place it is $10.