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Stupid Never Dies combines stylish visuals with sluggish combat, repetitive dungeon runs and an uncomfortable romance that undermines its strongest ideas.
GeoGuessr’s HorrorGuessr turns location spotting into a tense survival-horror roguelike, complete with monsters, bosses, power-ups and 100 unique items.
Ratatan revives the Patapon formula with rhythmic commands, colourful characters and roguelike progression, but limited variety holds back this PSP-inspired comeback.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer turns podracing into a fast, risky arcade racer with varied vehicles, roguelike seasons, spectacular crashes and plenty of replay value.
White Knuckle transforms climbing into a tense early-access horror challenge, combining hand-by-hand movement, scarce tools, rising sludge and roguelike restarts.
Blocks for Babies combines falling-block puzzles, roguelike upgrades and Doom-inspired shooting in one funny, unsettling arcade-style experiment.
Torneko’s Mystery Dungeon: Classic HD revives a pioneering Dragon Quest spin-off whose design legacy reaches Shiren the Wanderer and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon.
Team Lazerbeam’s Shroom and Gloom combines two card decks, first-person dungeon combat and hand-drawn mushroom monsters in an unusually tactile roguelike.
Food Devils combines grid-based tactics, roguelike risk, restaurant management and meaningful romances in Studio Daimon’s unusual upcoming RPG.
Ghost of Yotei’s Echoes of Sekigahara expansion arrives on PS5 this October, adding a roguelike mode, a new area and Jin Sakai as a playable character.
Cyberpunk 2077 headlines 10 games leaving Xbox Game Pass on 15 September, while seven new titles join Microsoft’s subscription service this month.
Messhof’s Blood Dungeon delivers a crude, fast-paced Vampire Survivors riff with platforming movement, online leaderboards, short runs and plenty of outrageous humour.
A temporary Xbox store listing points to an 8 September release for Mewgenics, with Gamescom Opening Night Live potentially set to confirm the port.
Ghost of Yotei’s Complete Edition adds the Echoes of Sekigahara story expansion, Most Wanted roguelike mode and free updates for existing players.
Ghost of Yōtei: Echoes of Sekigahara launches October 1 with new story missions, a roguelike survival mode, fresh gear and a free owner update.
Guillermo del Toro praises Dead Cells’ design but asks for kinder checkpoints, reopening the debate around difficulty options and accessibility in games.
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