Season 3 of our podcast wraps up with one of the most competitive game of the year finales ever!

Lots of great listener correspondence, high budget games, solo dev indie efforts, and everything in between. Looking forward to another year of roguelike podcasting!

https://grogpod.zone/2025-12-17-omegabowl3/

#roguelike #roguelite #goty #podcast #gaming #steam #steamdeck #xbox #playstation #nintendoswitch #indiedev #indiegame #cavesofqud #hades #eldenring #pathofachra #noita #spiritfall #blueprince #hallsoftorment

Omegabowl 3: The 2025 Roguelike Playoffs

Season 3 concludes with some of the heaveist hitter games we’ve ever covered for the podcast! From titans of tradtitional roguelikes like Path of Achra and Caves of Qud, to titans of real-time explosiveness like Noita and Hades, this is sure to be an Omegabowl for the ages. We have...

GROGPOD Roguelike Podcast

Indie Showcase for 6/16/25
https://www.youtube.com/embed/NJCUg2bFynM

The weekly indie showcases highlight the many games we play here on the channel (Game Wisdom). Games shown are either press keys, demo builds, or from my (Josh Bycer's) collection.

00:00 Intro00:14 Path of Achra01:32 When the L
https://setsideb.com/indie-showcase-for-6-16-25/
#indiedevshowcase #indies #baladins #Hemlock #indie #indiegameshowcase #MoonglowBay #PathOfAchra #TheTowerOnTheBorderland #WhenTheLightDies

Hear this! O pilgrim... a podcast episode on one of the highest rated traditional roguelikes ever: Path of Achra by solodev @Ulfsire !

Bathing in Babylonian blood mythology, and epic procgen poetry, walk The Path filled with poison snakes, hulking golems, hell mouths, flame drakes, and star-forged nightmare jewels.

Praise Humbaba!

https://grogpod.zone/2025-05-07-path-of-achra/

#pathofachra #roguelike #podcast #gaming #steam #steamdeck #indiedev #indiegame #solodev

Path of Achra

O, glorious roguelikes! Listener request week returns with a recent hit in the traditional rogue sphere: Path of Achra. A Bronze-Age, Zoroastrian-inspired synergy simulator of brutal combat and Conan-like mythological flavor, Path of Achra brings us a menagerie of unique themes and playstyles ranging from dancing swordsmen, to telporting dreamer...

GROGPOD Roguelike Podcast

Why go to your local zoo when you have such a diverse array of great apes to see in Path of Achra?

#pathofachra #roguelike #ape #gaming #steam #indiegames #indiedev

A most excellent dramatized experience of what one gets in Path of Achra

https://youtu.be/nUgSG4kIBpI

#pathofachra #roguelike #kruggsmash #gaming #steam #indiegame #indiedev

Path of Achra

YouTube

Cripes, that was tense at the end.

Got to the point where I had upwards of 40 summons on the field every level, the King of Many Colours wiped *all* of them. Even though I could summon more almost every turn, I ended the fight with *three*. And those were the ones I'd summoned the last turn.

Never expected the fifth cycle to be easy exactly, although most fights until then actually were just me holding down the space bar.

#PathOfAchra #Linux #gameing

Another ridiculous run.

No armour. One skill. Ape.

#PathOfAchra #Linux #gameing

Getting back into Path of Achra.

Such an absurd game. This is my naked skeleton assassin with lightning powers who did over three *million* damage on this run.

My previous character was an ape whose god gave them continually increasing strength, but hurt them if they were hit by any enemy.

The combos can be Slay the Spire level of silly, and there are *so* many character builds.

#Linux #gameing #PathOfAchra

Yearly Wrap 2024


I enjoyed writing my weekly game summary right up to the point Cohost died. Since then I've struggled to find a venue for the writing, and I now find it to be a massive chore.

However this has allowed me to recall the games I enjoyed over the year more easily than in the previous years.

I'll probably do it again next year in a revised lower-effort format.

GAME OF THE YEAR 2024

CAVES OF QUD

Simply the best roguelike[1] ever made. More complicatedly it is also some of the greatest sci-fi writing and world-building in video games, and some of the best blending of procedural-generated content with hand-authored material.

Congratulations to all involved for a brilliant creation.

The Top 20 Games released in 2024 excluding things I contributed to

These games, game-like stories, or collections of games, were "released" in one form or another in 2024.


Caves of Qud


1000xResist


Wilmot Works it Out


Anthology of the Killer


The Crimson Diamond


Judero


Indika


Felvidek


Midnight Scenes - A Safe Place


Mouthwashing


Psychroma


Sudden Death


Path of Achra


Webfishing


Afterplace


XENOTILT


Utopia Must Fall


Xenosphere


No Case Should Remain Unsolved


Cow Life Sim RPG

Top thing I did contribute to

I contributed to the 
Rabbits All-comers Mapping Project (RAMP) again this year. Map40 - This Was For the Sake of the Righteous of Course is my work. But I strongly recommend playing it for the incredible maps made by other people.


RAMP2024

Games of the Month

Each month I also named a "Game of the Month" that I enjoyed the most that month. Whether it was old, new, incomplete, or otherwise.


Swollen to Bursting Until I am Disappearing on Purpose


In Stars and Time


There Swings A Skull ~GRIM TIDINGS~


Felvidek


1000xResist


Wooden Ocean


Anthology of the Killer


The Crimson Diamond


Ostranauts


Wilmot Works It Out


XENOTILT


Caves of Qud


All roguelike impersonators also pale in comparison ↩︎
RAMPART - RAMP 2024