Five Steam Deck roguelikes you need to play during Replayability Fest – PCGamesN

Theres never been a better time to be a roguelike fan and own a Steam Deck, as the Endless Replayability Fest sale is live on Steam until May 20. This new game festival focuses ontitles that keep you coming back for more, andnogenre embodies this principle better than roguelikes.

The Steam Deck is well established as one of the best handheld gaming PCs, and youre never short of games to play thanks to Valverating over 14,000 games as Verified or Playable. In this latest Steam sale, weve found five incredible roguelike games you have to play that work great on the Steam Deck.

Balatro is apoker-inspired roguelike that took the world by storm when it was first released, and players are still chasing game-breaking high scores. Taking the roguelike concept and applying it to a card game isnt new, but the way in which Balatro is presented certainly is.

It takes a card game like poker, which many people around the world will already know and may even have played, and reworks the gambling aspect to retain the high-stakes fun,whilealso making it work as a single-player experience.

Youll never truly understand the hype about Balatro until you try it, and theres no better time to do so, as its currently part of the Endless Replayability Fest sale and is Steam Deck Verified.

Crypt of the NecroDancer may sit under the roguelike genre, but its also a music and rhythm game. Having first released back in 2015, if youve somehow not tried it yet, I cant recommend it enough.

The gameplay is super simple, seeing you navigate dungeons where your hero and their enemies all move to a beat. While the premise might sound easy, itsquite difficultto master, and the 15 levels included in the base game do a great job of gradually ramping up the difficulty while never completely overwhelming you.Crypt of the NecroDancer is Steam Deck Verified.

Another classic roguelike, Darkest Dungeon is an adventure game that sees you take a party of heroes on a dangerous journey, playing with elements of Lovecraftian horror, Dungeons & Dragons, and board game-style exploration.

Despite the difficulty, youll grow attached to your heroes and do everything to keep them alive, while also slyly recruiting their replacements should they perish, creating a gameplay loop that never grows old. Darkest Dungeon is Steam Deck Verified.

As I mentioned when talking about Balatro, Inscryption isone of many deck-building roguelikes, but it stands out bycreating a tension that sticks with you long after you stop playing.

The Steam store page summarized it best as a love letter to video games, mixing escape room style puzzles and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. If youre worried about the scare factor being a little too high, I would suggest that Inscryption is more creepy than scary, but it is well worth a try. Inscryption is rated as Playable on Steam Deck.

While it might not seem like a roguelike at first,Decendersabsolutely is a part of this genre. In fact, the developer even refers to it as a rogue-bike, which Ill admit I laughed at a little too hard the first time I read it.

This downhill biking game uses procedurally generated levels and a choose-your-own adventure style progression that, as one user review puts it, scratches an itch I didnt know I had. On top of the solid physics gameplay that has you constantlyyearning for just one more run, theres also a great licensed soundtrack that provides the perfect accompaniment as youlaunch yourself down a mountain at high speed. Descenders is rated Playable on Steam Deck.

Once youve given these games a try, its time to check out our picks for the best Steam Deck games, a list we keep updated with the latest and greatest games, each tested to make sure they work great on Valves handheld.

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