The game’s unique style and presentation resulted in a slew of similar games imitating its gameplay during the 2010s, but the original is still #1. Of course, that’s precisely what this lovable but difficult 2D roguelike platformer is about. And if you didn’t know, ‘spelunking’ is basically a fancy expression for ‘cave exploration’. Our next pick is another roguelike classic that’s become a synonym for roguelikes in the mainstream gaming community: Spelunky.
It’s one of the best games like Enter the Gungeon and it’s worth checking out. The game encourages replayability, as it’s practically a necessity the only way to learn what all the items do is to use them in practice. You’ve got a top-down 2D, a series of rooms that function as arenas with randomized enemies and loot, and a boss that waits for you at the end of every floor. Now, if all of this sounds depressing, don’t worry the game is actually super entertaining. The boy we’re guiding throughout the game runs to their dark basement in a bid for survival, but there’s no such luck, as he’s forced to do battle against a horrific set of monsters, lost siblings, his deepest fears, and at some point, naturally, his mother. Of course, in true biblical fashion, the message is a demand for sacrifice- more specifically, her son’s sacrifice. Isaac’s story starts with his mother, a crazed religious fanatic who believes she’d received a message from God. And if that premise sounds weird, fasten your seatbelts it only gets stranger and darker from there. Our hero is a boy that spends the game hurtling his tears at the monsters that populate his basement.
Its gritty gruesomeness is something quite a few titles have tried to imitate since, to varying degrees of success. Since coming out in 2011, The Binding of Isaac has spawned numerous sequels and spin-offs, but the first game is still the ultimate version of that particular gameplay experience.Īlso, it introduced some particularly dark and complex subject matter into a 2D roguelike game.
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