Sorry this is 2 weeks between videos! I'd love to say I have an excuse... so yeah, just assume I do have a good one

Finally, a reason to play a game hidden in my steam library

>Roguelites kinda suck >*Shows cult of the lamb* I wonder why

the way you're describing it makes it sound like it shares a lot of elements with deckbuilder rougelikes, where a lot of the exitement comes from finding interesting and powerful synergies between a bunch of mechanics interacting with eachother. I love deckbuilding roguelikes and I feel like I miss that style of discovery in more action focused roguelikes, so this sounds super interesting to me.

So, if you haven't played Noita... You should. Does it start out brutally hard and with limited options simply because you can't even make it past the first area? Perhaps. But as soon as you do manage to do that consistently, the wand crafting system starts letting you do some ridiculous things. Heat-seeking slime clouds, drowning the world in alcohol, miniguns that shoot exploding mushrooms, or simply firing one dinky little magic missile... Every frame. I think it would scratch a similar itch here, and once you get *good* at the game well, that's when all of a sudden it turns from what seemed like a simple roguelike into a game packed to the gills with secrets and hidden quests and parallel worlds and...

another thing i really appreciate is the simplicity of the plot, theres no world ending threat, no apocolypse. Youre just a wizard at a yearly competition here to pick up some expirience and a shot at a chaos arcana. All the masters are supportive of you once you beat, them and its just a simple story. Those are few and far between these days.

I think Dead Cells actually does roguelite progression perfectly. For instance, the health potion upgrade, which increases the amount of potion charges you can heal from during stages, goes up from just 1 charge to 4 total. This is a HUGE upgrade and is really good because you can refill your health bar whenever you take a huge hit. Sounds broken? It's great, until you beat the first difficulty, and suddenly you can't completely refill your health flask between each stage, and as you go up in difficulty, eventually you cannot refill your health flask AT ALL during a run, leaving you with 4 charges to get you through 6 stages and 3 bosses where anything can go wrong. And that's where it forces you to improve as a player, because you can't fall back on your health to get you out of bad situations, and are significantly more punished for mistakes. Giving a player this kind of strong resource, but then taking it away in this fashion as they progress to harder difficulties, is honestly the direction I hope Wizard of Legend 2 takes, since it's targeting more tangible roguelite progression than just unlocking new spells.

They are making a sequel! 4 player co op. Only thing i dont like is the 3d graphics. should stay pixel imo

Not at all the quality review I expected for a video with 58 views. You're like the Scamboli review of this niche genre

"if you meta progress to a point where you can't lose, why are you playing?" because... you up the heat to a level that you can't steamroll? because it would be overwhelming if you started with the whole mirror unlocked and a level of each pact of punishment, so instead you start with neither and are encouraged to go at your own pace, so that even if you're bad you can still feel like you're improving?

What’s crazy is this game is so good that its sequel looks kinda crap, despite obvious love being poured into it.

Streets of Rogue is legit the best Roguelite I've ever played, it's mostly inspired by Deus Ex. There's alot of freedom which brings alot of replayability too. And there's mutations, which are used to modify the game however you want, also brings even more replayability. You should try Streets of Rogue if you haven't already. But you also managed to interest me on Wizard of Legends, I'll give it a try it looks very fun.

There's no better roguelike experience than wizard of legend with the pre run option to cycle your spells every few times you use them. It's an experience I wish other roguelikes would have. Having to figure out what you have and how it works on the fly constantly for all your spells is just amazing and if you ever have a truly horrible line up, it'll get swapped out pretty quickly. The game does IMO have one real issue though and that is the camera is just slightly too zoomed in making it really easy to get tagged by off screen enemies. It can't really afford to zoom out much more either so I don't know the optimal solution but it became more and more of a nuisance the better I got at the game and the more challenging things I tried to do. I hope the sequel ends up well even if it has some concerning stuff around it's development (different dev, same publisher, new artstyle). Still, I very much hope for the best for it.

I really like to play rouge like with my sibling, however a lot of time one of us ends up just becoming more powerful than the other. In this game I felt like we were both able to have incredibly unique playstyles without either of us being left behind.

Hmm I have this in my library frm a humble bundle sale. Might have to give it a go now. Thanks for the breakdown.

Games like cult of the lamb and hades is a rogueLITE. The difference is that a rogueLITE lets you grow in power and a rogueLIKE forces you to try different things and none of them are more overpowered than the rest. I love wizard of legend so I’m so glad someone made a video about just why it’s so good!

wizard of legend was my intro to roguelikes and now it’s my favorite genre 💀

You should try Crypt of the Necrodancer, the progression is super fast and skill-based, in fact, pretty much everything in the game happens very quickly if you're skilled enough. There's also a *ton* of run variety with different characters, modes, multiplayer, mods, etc. And the characters all feel like separate adventures rather than just changing an attack or whatever.

You as good as lost me the moment you showed an upgraded Hades weapon as an example of "bad roguelike upgrades". You really lost me when 5sec later you showed a game that dumps everything on you from second one as "good game design". Don't get me wrong, you make some good points throughout the video, but so many other weird design decisions that would personally REALLY urk me you swept under the rug.

PLEASE play Noita, it's probably the most convoluted game I have ever played, (at least when you look at all the things you can do) but even knowing just the basics is really rewarding. There's some people that build these honestly just ridiculous wands that utilize specific mathematical equations to summon a deer in a separate reality, just to swap your position with it, or a wand that creates an infinite lifetime projectile that follows you around and fights for you. I understand MAYBE ten percent of the game, and I have played it for only about 120 hours. I know the game might be hard starting out, but once you get to know how even one little thing works, you're golden. (Just remember, chainsaws are your friend) also, Hämis.

I like how Binding of Isaac wasn't mentioned at all

Ngl this video actually made me want to play noita again for some reason

5:28 I too freaked out when I beat the final boss of this game

At 3:50 you talk about how the first boss's pattern is just "dodge, dodge, dodge then strike, then repeat".. what really got me by surprise was how the bosses scaled according to the level you were at. The fire boss at the end of first stage only does that minor pattern but if you see her at the end of second stage she does something else and they even use the spells you can get as arcana cards; which makes it so that even if you are seeing them using a move for the first time if you've used that arcana before you know what to expect from the visual cues alone. This game is simply clever in its design. edit: lol a second later in the video you talk about the second part of what I love about boss design in this game and yeah, it deserves the praise.

I've had this game in my library for years, and i still need to play it, but i didn't know where to start when i launched it just over a year ago, similar to the start of magicite, which felt like an impenetrable wall to overcome.

huh... it was only reading the comments that I realized that your video didn't have like 600k views. youtube give this guy more views

Which are the games shown in the video?

The progression isn't there, it could not keep me motivated to play it at all.

Spent hours 1v1ing my friends in this game just discovering combos of what worked and what didn't. Miss those days

what is the game at minute 4:33 ??

There is a bit of a meta best pick set up in my opinion. I always ran with the cloak that lowers your hp to 100 and gives you health regen after a few seconds of taking no damage and I pair it with the relic that makes all damage you take have a hard cap of 10% your max hp. It makes survival significantly easier and once I found the combo it was hard to justify not using it. Also it does lose a bit of replayability over time once you get most of the void arcana. That all being said its a 15$ game ive played for over 100 hours and i loved every second of it. It is an incredible game that i would highly recommend and I cant wait to see what they do in the sequel.

My problem with Wizard of Legend is that I have to play action roguelikes/roguelites with a controller and I can't adjust the key binds of Wizard of Legend so I can't play it, but it seems like a game I'd like

Have you played Enter The Gungeon before? I’m surprised I haven’t seen it mentioned here in the comments yet. It’s definitely not as much of a “deckbuilder” roguelike as the items you get in runs are more random, but that randomness adds to the replayability a lot. The progression is definitely slow at first, but there’s still so much in the game. The main turnoff is probably the difficulty when first getting into it, but it’s really fun to learn how to predict attacks and get better at dodging everything. I’ve done almost everything in the game, and still occasionally go back to do runs and challenge myself.

I just wanted to ask if you played risk of rain 2 or Slay the spire? I feel like they are both really awesome roguelites, with a lot of replayability. I will say that they do start off slower (especially Risk of rain 2).

What is the game at 5:49 ??? And I love the game. Been a while since I played but gonna pick it up again I think.

Hey Guys, what is that Gnome/Dwarf Game at 4:39, and is it worth playing? Greetings!

What other roguelike/lites have u played?

Anyone know what game this is 4:39

What was the song used in this video it sounds familiar? At the start of 2:40

Warm Snow has similar in-run diversity, you might like that one. You can beat the game on a fresh save too (might need to have played before, but it’s very doable). The first difficulty is balanced around having nothing, and all the higher difficulties are balanced by giving you much more complicated upgrades to keep you interested. There’s around 16 classes in the game, and they’re all unique and viable without needing to play a specific “meta” build. (E.g., Even effect-specialised classes like the poison class can actively support about a dozen cool builds that have nothing to do with poison.) Every item can be put into one of four inventory slots, and the effect completely changes depending on where it is. I have tried over 300 unique builds at this point for sure (with a theme and a cool payoff) and they were all really satisfying. You’ll feel heavily rewarded for having fun, theory crafting ideas and experimenting with what you find 👨‍🔬👍

See the other thing about wizard of legend is that it has made me despise other games with magic systems because wizard of legends just feels like everything I want in one in the most perfect sense, not only are you learning how spells work and what goes well together for your build but it truly will become “your build” because your experience might never be the same as someone else’s with the game, it makes it feel like I’m actually looking and learning wonderful tricks myself in a certain manner whereas other games with magic have a more restricted system, a mage might only have certain spells it’s able to use or unlock and that’s it, or it feels restricted by mana which takes away the magic from the magic in a certain manner of speaking sometimes

All great points, I absolutely love this game. Also something that adds to the replayability immensely for me, is that every time you beat the final boss you unlock a special spell that you can only obtain by beating him. I own every item in the game now, and am just working on unlocking all those last spells :)

5:14 As you were talking about not having any op builds, you find magnetic follow up to sync with bolt rail & fueled berserk. That's about the equivalent of holding down backspace on enemy health bars 😂. Tbf, it's still not a guaranteed combo to win, but it's a relatively op synergy

What is the game at 4:33 ?

The one thing i noticed about LoW is how even after 40h, i only managed to beat the game once, yet i'm not mad when losing. Ofc, i'd rather win but is still fun to adventure trough the maps. I suggest magicraft if you need a "same, but different" experience to WoL but with a few twists and quiet a bit more odd spells.

SHADOW WIZARD MONEY GANG, WE LOVE CASTING SPELLS. PS: Coop mode is sadly local only. It may work with remote play but unfortunately local only ):

but have you done phase 3 sura

If you think LoW offers variety you might need to play Noita. Gotta love that you use the Kingdom OST by the way

4:33 game name pls

Love wizard of legend but I was really hoping wizard of legend 2 that just got announced would pull a risk of rain 2 and go full 3d with an over the shoulder camera

if you want this game but more unforgiving and with around 40-100% more bullshit. I'd recommend Noita. the game is hardly a rougelite (though there are some things that unlock, there are no permanent upgrades) but is one of the most satisfying games to get good at, with insane levels of complexity it also falls under the category of game of "weirdly sadistic Finnish game", but most of all is that the game accounts for you breaking it, and borderline expects you to. so if you consider some Randoms word as good enough to look into, genuinely look into Noita. edit: You want replayability eh? if you wanna know a fun thing about the community around noita, beating the boss for the first time is considered a pretty big achievement, but also often joked about as beating a tutorial.

Have you tried chronoark? Its kinda like slay the spire but not really.

i use the same built every time and i can play this fucking game as many times as i want. why is this game so good and why is that one water basic attack so broken

Welp, the demo for a sequel came out recently. I'd like to hear your opinion on it.

Amazing video dude, keep it up! I was not expecting to be recommended a video about WoL in 2024 lmao, but now I wanna get back into it and dump another 60 hours into it!

My go to for a good roguele is Rogue Glitch. If you haven't played it, seriously, check it out and DON'T just put it on your backlog. If you're gonna check it out, check it out, if not, don't bother with it. It gets, CRAZY!

You’d love Nita as it also is wizard based with hundreds of spells and it also super unique though be warned its super difficult and its secrets are so hidden you are better of just looking a couple up

nice video my guy, i believe u have what it takes to make it big. keep it up

I think that Enter The Gungeon is a good example too. I mean, the difference between runs are new weapons and items, but the stats are always the same on every character. It keeps the difficulty even with great weapons, the system of synergies and the floors and bosses changes the game in every round. Also, the game encourages skill improvement of the the player giving rewards when you take no hit with a boss and other situations. The collectables like keys, blanks or money are generally rare, so you have to be strategic on what to use on a certain moment. I know some combinations of weapons and items are super powerful, but the difficulty of the game is always high so you can't be too relaxed. For me, one of the best games I've played.

you want a game that will kick your ass but has endless replay ability? Noita. from the physics to the exploration to the wand mechanics. it gets more fun the more you learn and play the game. prepare to die... a lot.

I remember coming back to this game recently after a few years and accidentally sinking another 25 hours into it.

man I played this game with a very good friend of mine around the time of release split screen just smoking and playing for 12 hours straight ahhhhht what a good time

Thank you for recommending this game! Searched it up and found it was on sale for 70% off! Perfect timing! (sale lasts until May 21)

Wizard of legend is a bullet hell roguelike with how the bosses are designed. It makes me want to try Furi, which I haven’t yet

There's a way to startworh full relics by doing tutorial again

this is genuinely one of my FAVORITE games, me and my friend play it all the time and its just so good, im genuinely surprised how it isnt more popular

There is only one thing that i feel you forgot to mention: The absolute lack of Invincibilty frames, if you get hit in this game you dont get a short window where you cant be damaged by anything else, the enemy will combo you away if you are not carefull!

I was obsessed with this game when it came out, freaking banger. I spent multiple hours trying different card and relic combos and capes just to see what happened. I don't usually like rogue likes or lites, but this one was super fun for me.

4:12 just wait until he put on his hood or better, his second hood.

Keep in mind that Wizard of Legend was made by two people. It's amazing that what I consider to be the best Rogue-lite/like of all time is the product of a two person team. Additionally, although there is a sequel to Wizard of Legend coming out, neither of the original devs are involved. The publisher, Humble Bundle, brought in an entirely different studio to make the sequel. It's being worked on by Dead Mage instead of Contingent99.

Played it many, many times over the course of 2 or 3 years on my Xbox one. Fantastic game, coop play is insanely fun to do too since you can build to have the role diversity of melee/range, tank/dps etc although it is important to note the camera was pretty annoying to work with (could’ve changed by now). Highly recommend, even as just a game you play in bursts occasionally throughout a year.

You should try noita it really changed the way I view rouguelikes

Wizard of Legend and then Dead Cells set the bar so high up for me, that I can't enjoy any other rougelites as much anymore

Well.... I fucked up. I thought I'd get a rogue-like for me and my BF to play after work. Now our standards are way too god damn high after 60+ hours of grinding Wizards of Legends. xD

I loved this game, but I could NEVER beat a full run. So hard.

can someone tell me the name of the game in 4:34? please

Out of so many roguelites I've played, I'd never expect youtube to recommend me a video talking this highly of 'Wizard Of Legend'. It's a decent game but it was a very repetitive and shallow experience for me. The combat is fun but nowhere close to carrying the game to something more than a few hours of fun. Crazy how tastes may vary lol

Maaaan, your incredibly low sub count SCREAMS to me that I just found a growing gold mine of content. Just binged your entire channel. You're gonna be huge! amazing content

whats the game at 4:34 ?

Kinda funny how you stumbled upon wizard of legend after I played it till I moved on. I agree with most of your points especially when you were saying you were lying. It is an extremely balanced game to a t and takes the feel of potentially dying and starting from nothing very seriously. I love that you love this game. Finding extreme satisfaction from it until ya need to move on.

I absolutely love this game to bits. Been playing for hundreds of hours ever since I got it last year and I can't believe their are still people playing it. I really hope this vid entices more people to play it as it is so underrated these days. Love the vid! Keep it up!

what's the game at the beginning of the video?

"what the hell was that, where am I? .... who am I...." got me cracking up

4:33 what game is that?

4:15 I remember flexing how I though myself smart for finding a cooldown-reduction build then getting roasted on Steam Discussion by experienced players because there're a couple really broken builds lol

What "Wizard Of Legend" version you talk about? Melody, Thundering keep, Phantom

won the game in my 6th run after learning the abilities and relics, got crazed over it and kept playing for a week straight

I am so soooo sorry for people who had to fight zeal in 3rd floor boss for their first time just so you know yes meteors are meant to blind you.

Got this game on my switch and really enjoyed it on vacation lol I should def play this game more or get it on my pc also

I beat this game when it came out and when I came back the game was unrecognizable with new bosses and spells and everything it was awesome

I can't believe somebody is using kingdom new lands ost. This is great!

shadow wizard money gang we love cast,ng spells

I was waiting to play the second one since its online multiplayer but bc of this video i might play this now. Great video!

What games is this at 4:33?

4:13 "master my ass he's not even wearing a hood" me: ..... ayt

I want to become overpower at one point

i love your choice of music in your videos

Wizard rougelites just work for some reason I suppose. * cough * Noita * cough *

Whats the game in 4:39?

I remember playing this game when it was on the game pass