With Balatro taking the world by storm, I’ve been on the hunt for extra puzzle-focused roguelikes and roguelites. Hades, Useless Cells, and Danger 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 sport the place you’ll want to place and broaden your stained glass squares, getting as excessive a rating as doable as you accomplish that. 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 increased scores to unlock all 100 achievements. With Steam demos getting a giant 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 increased and better. Whereas enjoying the demo I used to be shortly locked in a dance of contemplating what tiles I might use, the place to put them, and which achievements to go for whereas making an attempt to boost my rating. It’s a bit of bit like how Tetris tells you what piece is coming subsequent as you shortly plan the place to put every block, however with out practically as a lot stress.
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 elegant roguelite. It’s oddly stress-free, and alongside Balatro exhibits 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 vastly to the sport’s profit. As you develop to know tile combos, the place they’re finest positioned, and easy methods to finest use what restricted choices you could have, you enter a circulation state not dissimilar to the one in Balatro. Now although, as an alternative of recognizing poker hand combos milliseconds after they seem, you recognize precisely the place a tile must go for one of the best rating.
Finally, you’ll have extra tiles to choose from and might even reroll your present choices, and these are the sorts of significant modifications you get as you play. RoGlass has a extremely good problem curve, because it offers you tougher 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 accessible now whereas the total sport 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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