With Balatro taking the world by storm, I’ve been on the hunt for extra puzzle-focused roguelikes and roguelites. Hades, Lifeless Cells, and Threat of Rain will all the time be particular, however too lots of the style’s stalwarts are all about fight. Buying and selling playing cards for tiles, then, RoGlass is an extremely distinctive roguelite that’s been round for some time, however solely simply managed to get a Steam demo. The perfect half, it completely guidelines.
Right here’s the way it works. RoGlass is a tile-based roguelite puzzle recreation the place you’ll want to place and broaden your stained glass squares, getting as excessive a rating as attainable as you achieve this. You begin with only a few tiles and areas to work with, utilizing every tile’s talents together to unlock achievements tied to increasing your play space. From right here you unlock extra stained glass tiles, have extra space to work with, and might rack up larger scores to unlock all 100 achievements. With Steam demos getting an enormous overhaul, the brand new RoGlass demo could be very welcome.
RoGlass strings collectively a plethora of mini-challenges with the achievements, however nonetheless rewards you as your rating will get larger and better. Whereas enjoying the demo I used to be rapidly locked in a dance of contemplating what tiles I might use, the place to put them, and which achievements to go for whereas attempting to lift my rating. It’s a bit bit like how Tetris tells you what piece is coming subsequent as you rapidly plan the place to put every block, however with out practically as a lot strain.
Regardless of popping out in 2023 developer James Fort simply launched a free Steam demo, and RoGlass is already sneaking up on me as a very chic roguelite. It’s oddly enjoyable, and alongside Balatro reveals how roguelikes and roguelites can embrace a extra chill gameplay loop.
RoGlass isn’t overly lengthy and is laser-focused on its core premise, which is drastically to the sport’s profit. As you develop to grasp tile combos, the place they’re finest positioned, and how you can finest use what restricted choices you’ve got, you enter a move state not dissimilar to the one in Balatro. Now although, as a substitute of recognizing poker hand combos milliseconds after they seem, you understand precisely the place a tile must go for the most effective rating.
Ultimately, you’ll have extra tiles to choose from and might even reroll your present choices, and these are the kinds of significant adjustments you get as you play. RoGlass has a very good issue curve, because it provides you more durable achievements and better scores to succeed in whereas slowly upping the way you get there. In the event you personal a Steam Deck, I can see RoGlass being good for these lazy evenings.
The RoGlass demo is offered now whereas the complete recreation is 50% off, so anticipate to pay $4.99 / £4.35 till Monday August 19. You’ll be able to take a look at the sport proper right here.
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