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Ok, sticking to roguelikes, here’s some other options:

Deckbuilding Style: Slay the Spire, Monster Train, Griftlands, Balatro

Survivor/Bullet-Heaven Style: Vampire Survivors, Brotato, Deep Rock Galactic Survivor

Realtime Combat (I’d put Hades/Dead Cells here): Hand of Fate 1/2, Zero Sievert, Wall World, Rogue Legacy 1/2, Risk of Rain 1/2, Heroes of Hammerwatch

FPS: Gunfire Reborn, Roboquest

Turn-based/Pausable: FTL, The Last Spell, Loop Hero, Dungeons of Dredmor, Darkest Dungeon 1/2, Backpack Hero, Into the Breach, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2

Sure I missed some other good stuff.

Not a roguelike but if you liked the combat style of Hades, check out Bastion.

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Badabinski@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Noita is probably my favorite game of all time, and it's an excellent rougelike.

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- PdeT@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s an amazing rogue like for sure. It’s tough to get started but before I knew it I had over 150 hours into it, a golden crown on my head and a golden amulet on my character.
  
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- ssm@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Noita is great and extremely unique, but I dislike that once you find a few orbs of true knowledge your runs always start with getting those first. I’m usually too lazy to get the one at
  
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  the pyramid
  
  before ending mines, unless I can get a good teleport spell.
  
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  - Badabinski@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I don't bother with those unless I'm specifically going for all the orbs. Like, I'll get the closest one, but I don't bother with the one you mentioned or the one that makes the boss spawn. There's usually enough health to be had once you know your formations, and if you want mondo amounts of health, there's always the heart mage trick. I don't go out of my way to dig gold in the mines for the same reason. You can win without doing it, and it just breaks up the flow too much imo.
    
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MetricIsRight@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Roboquest is one of the most enjoyable games I have played in years, And the devs seem to really care, every update has made the game significantly more enjoyable and they seem to be actually listening to player suggestions and feedback. Highly recommended if you want a fast paced FPS Roguelite.

If you’ve played Gunfire reborn and are expecting more of the same your going to be disappointed though.

Gunfire Reborn is Roguelite first, FPS second Roboquest is FPS first, Roguelite second.

Same concepta executed and implemented very differently.

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Klaymore@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
One bullet-heaven game I’ve been enjoying is 20 Minutes Till Dawn. Each run is 20 minutes, and you try to survive at harder and harder difficulties and with different weapons or characters. There’s also a free demo of it called 10 Minutes Till Dawn.

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Abzantheism@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’d cross balatro off this list. It runs on hype and will die off soon.

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- pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It has good replayability. Yeah it’s having a surge of popularity but it’s a solid game that’s pretty unique with good longevity for those who enjoy it, I think it’s going to be popular for quite a qhile and probably start getting people making inspired games in the “deckbuilding with real cards” space.
  
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  - Abzantheism@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Games like this one and Roll, Rollscape, the roulette roguelike, even Luck be a Landlord. They have limited shelf life due to being based on the “make the number larger” concept, which isn’t that interesting at the end of the day.
    
    Compare that to weapon combinations in dead cells, crazy item synergies in Isaac, wands that do stupid things in Noita, perks in Hades… That offers more interaction and satisfaction.
    
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    pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’d liken it a lot more to FTL or STS than hades or dead cells. The skill is in the building and planning, not in the gameplay. Making do with the resources available to you, deciding on risking a suboptimal decision now that could payoff a lot more later, and thinking about how to make what you have into a successful run is the focal point here. Whereas with hades, sure perks are nice and add to your power as you play more, but the real skill in hades is your actual gameplay with the character. Both are perfectly valid, it just sounds like you’re a person much more focused on direct action skill.
    
    This isn’t to say that the games I mentioned don’t have that aspect too, but I find in general it’s way easier to for example play a hand in slay the spire optimally or have a fight in FTL optimally than it is to clear a room in hades or a nasty section in dead cells optimally. The skill expression is just kind of focused on a different aspect of the game. Nothing wrong with you preferring one to the other, just wanted to mention that not everyone has the same tastes =D
    
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