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I think most of the games I’ve liked lately are roguelites:
- Bullets Per Minute
- Crypt of the Necrodancer
- Plate-Up
- Unrailed
- Noita
- Risk of Rain 2
Except for BPM and Noita, I’d recommend all of these as excellent coop games too. Here are some summary descriptions:
Bullets Per Minute:
- first-person shooter dungeon crawler
- awesome rock soundtrack with a steady beat
- you have to shoot and reload to the beat
Crypt of the Necrodancer:
- top-down 2d dungeon crawler
- awesome electronic soundtrack with a steady beat
- you have to attack and move to the beat
Plate-Up:
- top-down 2d restaurant simulator
- episodic gameplay where you try to make it through each day by serving all the customers
- if any customer waits too long, you lose
- inevitably gets crazy and chaotic, perfect for a group looking for a hectic and fun coop game
- devs are based, epic mod support
Unrailed:
- top-down 2d rail-building game
- you start with a train on some rails, with the train always moving forwards
- the goal is to continuously place rails in front of the train, otherwise you lose
- similarly to Plate-Up, incredibly chaotic energy, very fun
Noita:
- sidescrolling dungeon crawler
- you mainly fight enemies using wands and spells
- wands on their own are effectively just a bunch of empty slots; you decide which spells go in them, and in which order
- this may or may not eventually result in game-breaking shenanigans (or suicidal shenanigans, or both)
- there are a lot of secrets. like the entire game is a meta-narrative about discovering secrets. question everything.
- you will die. a lot. half the time to your own wacky spells. this is the way.
Risk of Rain 2:
- 3rd-person shooter (some characters are primarily melee, but whatever lol)
- game consists of a series of stages, each of which has a bunch of enemies, a bunch of chests with items, and a boss you must defeat to progress further
- also has a decent few secrets. Not on the same scale as Noita, but still quite a few
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