With Balatro taking the world by storm, I’ve been on the hunt for extra puzzle-focused roguelikes and roguelites. Hades, Useless Cells, and Threat 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 game the place it’s essential to place and increase your stained glass squares, getting as excessive a rating as potential as you achieve this. You begin with only a few tiles and areas to work with, utilizing every tile’s skills together to unlock achievements tied to increasing your play space. From right here you unlock extra stained glass tiles, have more room to work with, and may rack up greater scores to unlock all 100 achievements. With Steam demos getting a big overhaul, the brand new RoGlass demo may be very welcome.
RoGlass strings collectively a plethora of mini-challenges with the achievements, however nonetheless rewards you as your rating will get greater and better. Whereas enjoying the demo I used to be rapidly locked in a dance of contemplating what tiles I might use, the place to put them, and which achievements to go for whereas attempting to boost my rating. It’s slightly bit like how Tetris tells you what piece is coming subsequent as you rapidly plan the place to put every block, however with out practically as a lot strain.
Regardless of popping out in 2023 developer James Citadel 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 enormously to the sport’s profit. As you develop to know tile combos, the place they’re greatest positioned, and methods to greatest use what restricted choices you may have, you enter a circulation state not dissimilar to the one in Balatro. Now although, as a substitute of recognizing poker hand combos milliseconds after they seem, you understand precisely the place a tile must go for the very best rating.
Ultimately, you’ll have extra tiles to select from and may even reroll your present choices, and these are the kinds of significant adjustments you get as you play. RoGlass has a extremely good problem curve, because it provides you tougher achievements and better scores to achieve whereas slowly upping the way you get there. When you personal a Steam Deck, I can see RoGlass being good for these lazy evenings.
The RoGlass demo is accessible now whereas the complete sport is 50% off, so count on to pay $4.99 / £4.35 till Monday August 19. You may take a look at the sport right here.
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