The game itself is really fucking good, I’ll give them that, but I stopped playing the moment I learned about the cast list and McMillen doubling down on it. Incredibly disappointed in this centrist bullshit to the say the least.
Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam
Submitted 10 hours ago by kip5608@retrolemmy.com to games@lemmy.world
https://www.polygon.com/mewgenics-surpasses-hades-2-steam-most-played-roguelite/
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nfreak@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Ugh I know, imagine playing a game and hearing idubbz, the n-word/f-slur guy. Fucking gross.
justsquigglez@leminal.space 10 hours ago
Hot damn, that’s actually wild considering his original game being so popular already, and also the first Hades AND Vampire Survivors existing.
Definitely gonna pick it up myself at some point soon.
justsquigglez@leminal.space 9 hours ago
Oh, after doing some research, it seems the person who wrote this article did not do theirs. I’m pretty sure Don’t Starve Together, Megabonk, and Elden Ring Nightreign (if you want to count that) all still beat out Mewgenics (especially Nightreign if we count it, by like such a large gap.)
taiyang@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The article is bunk, but oddly enough the all time high by Steamdb suggests it’s around tied with DST, Megabonk, Hades II, and a few others at 115k-ish.
Nightreign, as AAA go, 313k at peak, lol.
You can still tell the article is bunk for comparing it to Stray as a cat game. Oh yeah, sure, while we’re at it let’s compare to Hello Kitty Island players, eh? AI logic. Lol
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Gotta wonder where Binding of Isaac falls on the list since it’s been out so long and it’s players tend to be the ones that put hundreds, if not thousands, of hours into it.
Hazardous_area@piefed.world 5 hours ago
Super worth picking up if you like grid based tactics type games. It has so much more depth than I was expecting, every run or two I’m getting some new twist or ability that makes it play quite differently to anything I’ve tried yet.
Plus the sound track is great.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
The previous was actually Hades 2 which surprised me too.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 5 hours ago
I can’t even figure out what “rougelike” is supposed to mean anymore.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 hours ago
It means “similar to red”
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
The headline says “roguelite”, the Berlin Interpretation is safe for now
wobblyunionist@piefed.social 8 hours ago
The title being a play on the word eugenics is enough to get me to not want to support the game
kip@piefed.zip 6 hours ago
i’ll accept that roguelite means fuck all except ‘has meta progression’ but none of the games mentioned in this article are roguelikes
tomi000@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Roguelike was the term generally used for all roguelites before they became so popular someone invented a separate word for it.
MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Yeah I get that they created roguelite for games that are based on rng runs and has some sort of async progression and I think that has become a pretty practical genre to categorize a wide array of hands that share those traits.
But roguelike should be kept to games like nethack, pixel dungeon etc that share the basic concepts of rogue.
kip@piefed.zip 4 hours ago
agree re roguelikes but roguelite seems far too broad to work as a genre? like if there was a ‘combos’ genre that included blazblue, bayonetta, and bejewelled