Game Rant:
A Kickstarter campaign from two years ago has led to the long-awaited release of Darkest Dungeon, one of the best roguelike RPG titles we’ve ever played.
Gamers who enjoy the challenge of a good roguelike or a great turn-based roleplaying game should look no further: Darkest Dungeon has finally arrived. The game had to go through its own series of hurdles before it could even present its challenges to players: Darkest Dungeon went through a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign, and had almost two years of development time before finally going gold this week after plenty of fan feedback and a a foreboding trailer.
Tis the season to be spooky, and so Rogueliker has gathered together a collection of roguelikes and roguelites that have fun being scary.
We've endured the purest terror in all of gaming in order to bring you this terrifying list of horror roguelikes.
Twinfinite: "In the mood for a Dungeons and Dragons-like experience? We've got you covered. Inside, we run down ten of the best. Let's get into it!"
Best Video Games Like D&D. Includes two games that are literally using the D&D ruleset and have WotC D&D branding and one that uses the D&D 3.5 ruleset with custom classes (Pathfinder).
I really wish authors would spend more time explaining and detailing things rather than being so focused on throwing a list together for yet another opinion piece. There's a ton you can say about all of these games and their ties to Pen and Paper roleplaying. Other than Armello, all of the listed games are inspired by various PnP RPGs, including Warhammer for one of them. Obsidian alone got much of their start in classic D&D RPGs and Dragon Age was their own take on many of their past creations molded into one that was even turned into a PnP game.
I've played it at many times throughout its development, since I was a Kickstarter backer, and it was a refreshing, yet punishing game that did deliver what they promised from the outset and is a solid game. I still don't like the "corpse" mechanic they introduced a while back, but it can be turned off (and I highly recommend it is).
9/10 and a must-play if you like roguelikes or turn-based RPGs.
And that narrator!