5 addictive Roguelike games that keep me saying ‘just one more run’
Randomly generated content can be a dirty word when applied to some games. Titles where the focus is meant to be on the plot, world, and lore as a cohesive whole need to have hand-crafted environments to maintain consistency. Roguelikes, on the other hand, are designed first are foremost around gameplay. They want to draw you in first with deep and satisfying mechanics and then offer you essentially endless ways to use it by mixing up the enemies, rooms, and items you find each time you play. It feeds into that same part of our brain that likes gambling; you never know if that run will be the one where the stars align and you get the perfect RNG.
