Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours agoaww, too bad, if you were good enough you could have beaten the game, but let’s make it a little easier
Yeah, that’s pretty awful game design. Most of the ones i’ve played didn’t feel like that, usually you’d unlock new classes or something (I.e. sidegrades) or unlock harder difficulties.
And of course my favorite ones don’t have any meta progression whatsoever, the only progression comes from you learning about the game.
Dr_Nik@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Ok, I’m intrigued. Any recommendations? I’d love to play ones where progression comes from learning about the game.
missingno@fedia.io 12 hours ago
You're looking for actual Roguelikes then. That's what the genre originally was before it got bastardized.
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
One of my all time favorite games is Cultist Simulator, but I’ll admit it’s not for everyone. If you like puzzle type games and don’t mind learning about the world by reading lots of little snippets of flavor text, it’ll be right up your alley.
Also definitely check out Rogue (the og) and the first wave of games inspired by it. The meta-progression stuff is kind of a new wave thing.
As for newer games, Balatro is really popular right now if you’re into more ‘puzzle roguelikes’. Most of the things you unlock make the game harder rather than easier, or give you a different angle from which to play the game. There are a handful of things you have to unlock via meta-progression, but so far they seem pretty unintrusive.