The GROGPOD Roguelike Podcast is a bi-weekly show about four friends talking about a featured Roguelike game. We cover the full spectrum of titles, from the mor...
Welcome back Wizard, to the ruins of the universe! This week we pick up the coffeebreak hit of the traditional roguelike space Rift Wizard: a solo-dev effort by Dylan White, in which we skitter about pondering orbs of memory and battling all sorts of spritely monsters and mages. Armed with a spellbook a mile long and wild passive skills to boot, we will finally exact our revenge on the evil red wizard Mordred for waking us up from our nap.
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2:46 - game stats
3:48 - one sentence description
31:14 - our story begins and spoiler alert warning
1:12:04 - rankings and final thoughts
1:21:09 - similar games
Scott’s source code dump of all the Rift Wizard spells and skills google sheet can be found here.
Next episode: Remnant from the Ashes
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Intro music: Jerry Granelli - I Put a Spell on You
Outro music: K. Hoops - Rift Wizard main menu theme
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1:27:20
Hades
Season 3 is here and we’re turning up the heat levels with the infernal hack-n-slash / visual novel / dating sim Hades! The crown jewel of indie darling developer Supergiant Games, we follow Prince Zagreus and his journey to fight out of the Greek Underworld with the aid all your favorite characters from Greek mythos including a wise-cracking skeleton, a timid snake head housekeeper, an ever-happy smiling boulder, a zombie boat man, among many others! Oh and I suppose there are Olympian gods in there too, each one more ripped and romance-worthy than the last. Maybe you can escape the fires of Asphodel, but what about your fiery passions for your co-workers?
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1:34 - game stats
3:03 - one sentence description
23:18 - our story begins and spoiler alert warning
1:32:28 - rankings and final thoughts
1:42:43 - similar games
Next episode: Rift Wizard
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Intro music: Charles Mingus - When Your Lover Has Gone
Outro music: Darren Korb - Out of Tartarus
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1:54:40
Roguelike Dev Interviews at PAX West 24
The winter special episode is here! This week we turn back the clock 3 months to a number of interviews Scott did with developers and panelists at PAX West here in Seattle. A ton of fun, he got to talk to a lot of really cool and fun people who entertained my nonsense questions. With so many great games played and talked about, we’re already penciling out plans for next year’s possibilities! Check the timestamps below for interviews with friends of all sorts and their games and studios.
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4:18 - Live on the streets!
9:11 - Vampire Survivors tournament champion interview with Alan
14:58 - Slay the Spire board game playtest with Nathan and Erin
22:17 - Barony with Josiah Colborn from Turning Wheel Games
33:56 - “What is a rogue-like?” with Jenna Stoeber and Anica Cihla, see their “What Defines A Soulslike?” panel VOD here
41:30 - Rogue Climber with Christian and Eric from Imaginary Game Studios
46:04 - AO: Containment Breach with Jules aka Prismatix-
49:52 - Ultra Mega Cats
54:36 - Let’s Build a Dungeon with James Barnard from Springloaded
1:02:07 - Rogue Waters with Mateusz Pilski from Ice Code Games
1:07:48 - “What is a game publisher?” with Matthew Palacio from Hooded Horse Games
1:14:24 - ctrl.alt.DEAL with Gwen from Only By Midnight Ltd.
1:17:37 - Show wind down
Next episode: Season 3 kicks off with Hades!
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Intro/outro music: Vince Guaraldi Trio - O Tannenbaum
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1:21:37
Omegabowl 2: The 2024 Roguelike Playoffs
Season 2 has come to an end with an impressive slate of top-tier rogue games! If you’ve never listened to the show before, these recap episodes are a great place to start. This year we see how well our new #1 overall rated game of Slay the Spire will hold off contenders like Vampire Survivors and Balatro. We revisit some oldies and goodies with games spanning releases all the way back to 2003! We have some great listener comments sprinkled throughout, including some of the devs from games that we’ve covered. So go get a corndog (grogdog?), a #1 fan foam finger or two, and strap in for our longest, and therefore best podcast episode to date.
Our finalists include:
Balatro
DoomRL
Heat Signature
Into the Breach
Inscryption
Jupiter Hell
Risk of Rain 2
Slay the Spire
Slice & Dice
Star of Providence
Vampire Survivors
World of Horror
Who will take the ultimate prize of the GROGPOD Omegabowl???
! The full tournament bracket with spoiled results can be found here
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1:54 - Tournament plan, categories, and games
7:04 - Wildcard 1: Risk of Rain 2 vs Heat Signature
13:42 - Wildcard 2: Slice & Dice vs Star of Providence
23:48 - Wildcard 3: Balatro vs DoomRL
30:06 - Wildcard 4: Inscryption vs World of Horror
38:57 - Division 1: Slay the Spire vs ???
44:40 - Division 2: Vampire Survivors vs ???
56:20 - Division 3: Jupiter Hell vs ???
1:03:44 - Division 4: Into the Breach vs ???
1:14:40 - Semi-finals 1 — possibly the REAL omegabowl finals here —
1:35:32 - Semi-finals 2
1:43:10 - Grand finals
1:58:24 - Show wind down
Next episode: Roguelike developer interviews from PAX West 2024!
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Intro music: Scott Schreer - NFL Fox
Outro music: Clark Aboud - Battle with the Champ
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2:03:49
Risk of Rain 2
Risk of Rain returns and in threeeee deeeeee! One of the most popular rogue games ever closes out season 2 of our podcast this year by dropping into a chaotic swarm of low-poly, monster-infested lands backed by screaming synth guitar sounds. From multiplayer near-victories, to solo-play over confidence, Risk of Rain 2 is a Bundle of Fireworks to send us off into the holiday season for some Bison Steaks and Energy Drinks.
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1:42 - game stats
3:35 - one sentence description
35:24 - our story begins
1:14:20 - rankings and final thoughts
1:22:14 - similar games
As discussed in the outro, Scott has recorded a bunch of tutorial videos with Caves of Qud youtuber BigSimple which you can find here! Stay tuned for our coverage on it next season!
Next episode: Omegabowl 2: The 2024 GROGPOD Roguelike Playoffs
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https://grogpod.zone
Intro music: Seatbelts - Tank!
Outro music: Chris Christodoulou - …con lentitud poderosa
The GROGPOD Roguelike Podcast is a bi-weekly show about four friends talking about a featured Roguelike game. We cover the full spectrum of titles, from the more modern, action-oriented games like Binding of Isaac and Hades to the traditonal roguelike designs of games like Cogmind and Caves of Qud. Join us each episode as we unpack what makes a roguelike game fun (or not) and then rank it against the compendium we've compiled thus far.