Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike

Erosion is a Wild West-themed roguelike that plays with the genre in fascinating way. Read Polygon's Erosion preview for more.

“ARCADE IS DEAD,” developer Housemarque abruptly decreed in all caps on its blog shortly after Matterfall’s release in 2017.This candid manifesto explained how the team saw no future developing the arcadey games it had specialized in for over two decades and was moving onto different genres. Returnal was the result of this shift in focus, taking the aesthetics and chaos inherent to Housemarque’s house style and throwing it all into a roguelike third-person shooter. It was a cult hit that saw critical acclaim, but Saros, Returnal’s spiritual sequel, seems to rebuke that glorious foundation by s

Xbox Game Pass is about to lose Lost In Random: The Eternal Die, one of the best roguelikes in years. Play it before it goes.

Introducing Deepward, a high-speed first-person shooter roguelite set in the 1920s that lets you choose three distinct heroes from a roster of six, switching between any of the three of them on the fly during the brutal melee and gun-based action.

A sequel to Backrooms is in the works.