Steam-themed sale - "Born to Die" game festival was officially launched in the early hours of this morning.
Before that, we briefly talked about it, this will be a high-difficulty game-based activity, such as Roguelike, Soul-like, Galaxy-like Castlevania.
So how do these game types differentiate and what do they originate from? What are the unique mechanisms? Taking advantage of this event, Steam officials also specially posted an answer to this question.
So today we will follow the official introduction for a simple explanation, and then list the games and good prices worth paying attention to in this sale.
01
The origin of "Rogue"
First of all, there is indeed such a game called Rogue, and it is also available in the Steam store.
Rogue
Permanent death, program generation
No Chinese, 96%
10.05 15
First introduced in 1980, the game combines role-playing elements, randomly generated maps, and perpetual death, allowing players to take an adventure through the underground maze, while levels and items are randomly generated and increasingly difficult.
With the unique gameplay experience created by it, this game based on the UNIX platform and the very simple screen more than 40 years ago has later become the originator of the meat pigeon and the source of all evil in the mouths of the majority of meat pigeon lovers.
02
A subclass of Rogue
The core of Rogue's appeal to players is two things: randomly generated content and permanent death.
This also inspired many later games, and competed to imitate them, so these games were classified as "Roguelike".
Rogue-like games have the same complexity, random maps, permanent death, etc., but a variety of ways to present the gameplay make the label more refined, such as "action rogue", "card-building rogue" and so on.
Later, however, some game developers abandoned this point while borrowing from the Rogue mechanics and felt that permanent death (zero reopening) would make it too difficult for players.
For example, even if the player character dies, he can inherit the previous equipment, points, levels, and abilities before entering the next game.
The game is classified as "Roguelite."
Of course, now when you browse the game on Steam, you find that many games have these two labels at the same time, but there is no mistake, mainly because the boundaries between the two have become more and more blurred after modern games have added more gameplay elements and mechanics.
Warm snow
Action Rogue, role-playing
New history low, Chinese, 90%
49.3 58
Black Future 88
Action Rogue, adventure
New history low, Chinese, 75%
17.25 69
Deep Space Relics
Card-building rogue-like
New history low, Chinese, 74%
10.5 70
Broken pixel dungeons
Traditional Roguelike, labyrinth to explore
New history low, Chinese, 95%
31.45 37
The source of madness
Mild Rogue, action
New history low, Chinese, 79%
42.75 57
Smart Knight
Card-building rogue-like
New history low, Chinese, 91%
35 50
Metal Warrior
Rogue-like, adventure, action
New history low, Chinese, 84%
15 50
Iron Melting Girl
Anime, pixels, light rogue
New history low, Chinese, 93%
25.6 32
Witch
Physics, difficulty, rogue-like
Low, Chinese, 95%
35 70
Killing Spire
Card-building rogue-like
Low history, Chinese,97%
32 68
Night worker
Pixel, light Rogue, adventure
Low history, Chinese, 83%
17.5 70
Advance into the dungeon
Barrage shooting, action-like Rogue
Low, Chinese, 96%
19.2 48
Hammer Guardian Heroes Legend
Action-like Rogue, pixel, co-op
Low, Chinese, 88%
16.4 41
FTL: Faster than the speed of light
Rgoue-like, space, strategy
Low, Chinese, 95%
7.25 29
Black Book
Light Rogue, card fighting
Low, Chinese, 94%
48 80
Guns reborn
FPS, Mild Rogue
Low, Chinese, 94%
51 68
Thief Legacy 2
Mild Rogue, Galactic Warrior-like Castlevania
Low, Chinese, 95%
7.25 29
Canada's Road to Death
Pixels, action-like Rgoue
Low history, no Chinese, 93%
14.4 48
Tyrant game
Rogue-like, pixel-like
Low, Chinese, 87%
40 50
Legendary creatures
Strategy, casual, self-propelled chess
Low history, Chinese,90%
9.5 19
Layer upon layer of dreams
Action Rogue
Low history, Chinese,90%
48 80
Colt Canyon
Action-like Rogue, violent
Low, Chinese, 92%
17 50
Dead cells
Light Rogue, pixel, soul-like
Chinese,97%
48 80 ￥40
Small Bones: Hero Killer
Action-like Rogue, pixels
Chinese,93%
49 70 ￥43
Hellish neighborhood
Mild Rogue, action
Chinese,96%
28 70 ￥20
Occult simulator
Light Rogue, cards, management
Chinese,81%
42 70 ￥23
03
Soul-like
Soul-like games originated in 2009's "Demon Souls", and later carried it forward by the great master "Dark Souls", and its classic elements are: medieval fantasy dark environment, high difficult game experience.
Nio 2: Full Version
RPG, action, soul-like
New history low, Chinese, 88%
161.85 249
Star Wars Jedi: The Fallen Samurai Order
Action-adventure, soul-like
Chinese,90%
49.5 198 ￥45.6
Tail of Steel
Action RPG, Soul-like
New history low, Chinese, 90%
48 80
Souls of the Ancients
Dark fantasy, soul-like, action
New history low, Chinese, 83%
35 70
Dark Sacrifice
Soul-like, pixel-like, action-like
New history low, Chinese, 77%
21 70
Kill the demon line
Action, RPG, adventure, slash and slash
New history low, Chinese, 85%
40.95 63
Deadly shell
Soul-like, action, RPG
New history low, Chinese, 75%
50 100
Dark Blade
Violent, difficult, soul-like
New history low, Chinese, 95%
30 50
Death Gate
Action, adventure, RPG
Low, Chinese, 94%
52 80
Nio: Full Version
Soul-like, action, RPG
Low, Chinese, 79%
62.25 249
04
Like Galactic Warriors Castlevania
The Galactic-like Castlevania game borrows from two game series – Metroidvania, which came out in 1986, and Castlevania, which came out in 1986.
The classic elements of this genre are non-linear gameplay, sci-fi, and progression that needs to be unlocked, and most of them are platform action games.
Of course, the modern restrictions on the genre and background of this genre are no longer so strict.
Hollow Knight
Like Galactic Castlevania, platform
New history low, Chinese, 97%
19.2 48
Shadow Torch City
Like Galactic Castlevania, action
New history low, Chinese, 90%
81 108
Red Marks: Rituals of the Night
Like Galactic Warriors Castlevania
Low, Chinese, 94%
55.2 138
Red Mark: Curse of the Moon 2
Action, retro, platform
Low history, no Chinese, 88%
25 50
Abandon the sea
Galactic Warrior-like Castlevania, underwater
Low, Chinese, 96%
54.4 68
GRIME
Like Galactic Castlevania, platform
Low, Chinese, 85%
60 80
Murana Secret Treasure 2
Soul-like, Galactic Warrior-like Castlevania
Low history, Chinese, 83%
40 80
05
Additional Information
The gameplay mechanics of the above four types of games are very different, but they all have one thing in common: difficult.
Which one can make players cry out, of course, if you have the patience to go deep into it, you will eventually enjoy it.