Learning that depth from run to run can be incredibly rewarding, especially as you start to realize when sacrificing a rocket-wielding pawn might hurt in the short term but be better in the long run. Enemies are satisfyingly consistent and dastardly destructive at the same time, forcing you to plan moves far into the future in order to address both what they’re doing now and what they could do down the line. Each encounter could only be a handful of turns long, but the amount of choice you have during those turns is staggering. Its particular flavor of time traveling tactics combat plays out more like a careful game of chess than a hard-hitting warzone – only all the chess pieces are replaced by giant mechs fighting back a city destroying kaiju threat. The follow-up to FTL from developer Subset Games doesn’t fly quite as high up on this list as its predecessor, but Into the Breach is undoubtedly one of the most nuanced and strategic roguelikes around. Between the excellent bullet hell dodgy gameplay, the plethora of weapons, and the dozens of cheeky reference and easter eggs, Enter the Gungeon more than earns its place on a list of the best roguelikes. Like all of the best roguelikes, each run feels different, because the many different guns fundamentally change the way you play, and there are more of them than you can shake a joystick at. Never before has a game been so gun-themed, with the entire concept of a gungeon carried through to a level of detail we didn't think possible. To do so, they'll have to collect a near-bottomless assortment of different guns, and the armory is where this game really shines. This top-down bullet hell roguelike from Dodge Roll sees an assortment of cheery pixel-art characters descending through chambers of increasing difficulty and besting epic boss-battles to try and find a gun capable of killing their past - literallty unwriting their greatest regret.
Enter the Gungeon may be at the number ten spot on our list, but it's number ten with a bullet! Or a thousand.
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