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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast

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Podcasting about roguelike games, their development, and their history. grogpod.zone 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.gamedev.place/@grogpod, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Breathing Retro @breathing-retro.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

RALA:/:sutura Advance — homebrew turn-based bullet hell roguelike for #GameBoy Advance #retrogaming #gba #gbadev

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RALA:/:sutura Advance by solmare

Turn-based bullet hell tactical roguelike on the Game Boy Advance

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

The first mobile platform roguelike comes to Steam! 100 Rogues by @keithburgun hasn’t been available for 13 years until today and it’s quite fun! Full controller support, charming graphics, and quick gameplay make this quite a solid coffeebreak traditional roguelike. Plays great on the steam […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Our next episode will be the incredibly appropriate-for-October-spooky-season sequel of one of our highest rated games of the podcast ever: Hades 2! store.steampowered.com/app/1145350/… #hades2 #spooktober

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Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

This week we take on the recent smash hit roguelite city builder Combolands! A mashup of Balatro-style points generation with town building mechanics, Combolands offers a very nice and cozy experience while hitting that number-go-up dopamine rush grogpod.zone/2026-10-07-combolands […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

The play test for rogOut so far is very interesting! Something like a modern ascii roguelike MUD, it has a very slick UI that feels great to play with on the steam deck. Great potential in this one! store.steampowered.com/app/5131420/… #GROGPODminis #roguelike #steamdeck #mud […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Part 1 of the new docu series on the development Hades 2 by @dannyodwyer ! What better way to *kill some time* than seeing the incredible work behind the scenes by Supergiant games! youtu.be/UWFfmD8n-xA #hades2 #roguelite #documentary #gamedev #indiegame #roguelike #noclip #gaming […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: aus.social/@dgar/117326446258191997 #CavesOfQud in an accelerated nutshell

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Our next episode will be Combolands! store.steampowered.com/app/4075620/… #combolands #chill #citybuilder #gaming

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Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder on Steam

A mini citybuilding roguelike. Place buildings, stack combos, and master deep strategy in short bursts to create a tiny thriving metropolis!

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

This week we examine the intersection between hardcore ARPGs and roguelikes with an oldie, but a goodie: Diablo 2! Join us as we frantically down our health potions before packs of torture goblins surround our squishy ranged magic casters. grogpod.zone/2026-09-23-diablo2 #diablo2 […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Great, succinct video on the craziness of Nethack youtu.be/SjuTyJlgLJ8 #nethack #roguelike #retrocomputing #retrogaming #gaming #pcgaming #foss

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Bonus interview episode! I was fortunate enough to grab some time with the solo dev of the bullet hell boss rush roguelite The Void Rains Upon Her Heart at PAX West this year. TVRUHH features a great pixel art palette, thumping metal tunes, and a very personal story mode about identity and […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

"Diablo V will return to its Angband roots as a tile-based, terminal-based, ascii dungeon crawler" #diablo #blizzcon #angband #roguelike

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Remember 90s shooters? They're back, in roguelite form! This week we take aim at STRAFE: the Devolver Digital-backed boomer shooter with more gibs than a thanksgiving turkey. grogpod.zone/2026-09-11-strafe #strafe #boomershooter #roguelite #podcast #gaming #steam #playstation […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

As someone whose been playing the original Torneko on a fan translated SNES rom hack, inject this shit straight into my veins! The recent Shiren Serpentcoil game is also really good and worth a look. Very excited to see the first mystery dungeon game get the broader release it deserves […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

An incredibly cool project using gzdoom as a visual front end and Brogue CE as the computational back end. 🧹 harminoff.itch.io/project-broom #roguelike #brogue #doom #opensource #indiedev #indiegame #gzdoom #gaming #pcgaming

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Project Broom by harminoff

Explore Brogue CE in first-person 3D. A free, turn-based dungeon crawler in active development.

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

PAX West day 2! Excited to interview even more roguelike developers, speedrunners, panelists, and community organizers. Looking at how jammed my schedule is and thinking about how much faster I have to trundle across the show floor today to get everything in 🏃 1/🧵 #paxwest #convention #gaming […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

PAX West is here! Excited to play some new games and interview some roguelike/lite developers and players! Starting off with the world’s first floating bridge train commute and it’s everything I was hoping it would be. 1/🧵

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Is there an recommended instance that people from masto gamedev use for peertube? #peertube #gamedev #foss #fediverse

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

There's coal in them thar hils! This week we dig deep into the stratification gratification mining roguelite Coal LLC. All good excavation conglomerates harvest their minerals via rifles, flamethrowers, and long-hosed vacuum cleaners, right? grogpod.zone/2026-08-26-coal-llc #CoalLLC […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

That feeling when you come across an abandoned 35 year old PC in an aircraft hangar and you think to yourself “I could probably get netBSD and some roguelikes running on that thing…” #retrogaming #netbsd #roguelikes #retrocomputing #linux #foss #pcgaming

An old IBM PC 300GL QS1 found in the back of an airplane hangar

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

This should be the soundtrack for when you enter the Gnomish Mines in Nethack www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PneDB0mZ6o #nethack #dnd #roguelike #hexcore #gaming #foss #retrogaming #fantasy #hiphop #gnome

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Save energy by playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup! The main game menu for the Steam Deck uses about 6.5W. Running DCSS takes 4.5W, a 30% energy savings! Your local MiFi demands it! #dcss #roguelike #steamdeck #gaming #retrogaming #dungeoncrawl

Load screen art from the game Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup featuring a war axe wielding Minotaur fighter dragging a wimpy armored knight by their cloak

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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

yesterday i was talking about mastodon and someone was like "what the fuck is that" and without thinking i said "linux twitter"

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Tower defense time returns to the GROGPOD this week with Nordhold! Combining worker placement (and sacrifice?) economics with tower fusion synergy systems, your goal is to survive 30 waves of green and blue health bars from swarming your Viking island. grogpod.zone/2026-08-12-nordhold […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Our 3-part Episode 100 celebration concludes with us deep diving Brogue CE! Created by hobbyist gamedev and lawyer by trade Brian Walker, Brogue drastically simplified the extreme length and complexity of 90s roguelikes into a mouse-first, color-packed, shorter tactical masterpiece! […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Episode 100 continues with the big 4 first games like Rogue! If only there was some tortured genre name for these types of games… Lots of fun correspondence from both Mastodon and emails, including a (slightly edited for time) great voicemail message! Come for the LotR chiptunes, stay for the […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Episode 100 is here! 🎉 We finally made it after doing a show every 2 weeks for 4 years. And what better way to celebrate than showcasing the games that inspired the 1980 release of Rogue? We’ll talk through brief histories, fan letters, and live playthrough reactions of: 1971 Star Trek 1975 […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Very excited see how thick the Jersey accent is on my boy Polyphemus in Christopher Nolan’s new movie #Odyssey #Hades #gaming #nolan #roguelite #mobboss

The giant cyclops Polyphemus as depicted from the hit 2005 roguelite game Hades 2

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

It's time to rescue Ball-bylon this week on the GROG x POD! Inspired by the likes of Breakout, Arkanoid, and Punball, BALL x PIT has you dive 8 stages through sand pits and dragon lairs. All while building up your own pinball town of number-go-up goodness! […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Randomized scroll names in Rogue today be wildin #rogue #roguelike #xom #gaming

A list of various fantasy items from the 1980 game “Rogue” including unidentified scrolls with randomized names like “sex yes” and “cum pil”

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Playing BALLxPIT while watching NORxENG feels appropriate #roguelite #worldcup #steamdeck

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Live and drink once again! Our 2025 GOTY returns for a special 3rd part, this time with a special interview with the composer for Caves of Qud: Craig Hamilton! Lots of great insight into game music creation for such a unique and esoteric game! grogpod.zone/2026-07-01-craig-hamil… […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

For our 9th and final game of our 100th episode super special in July, we are looking at Brogue CE! Developed by lawyer Brian Walker, it brings ASCII graphics into the 21st century via accessibility, great use of color, and extremely elegant design choices […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Game 8 of our 100th episode spectacular special will focus on an overlooked, but often beloved entry: Omega! Pioneering the idea of a large overworld with multiple cities and dungeons, Omega also adds elaborate guild systems, multiple victory conditions, and neat NPC interactions. Likely the […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Game 7 of our 100th episode special in July will focus on one of the first coffee break length roguelikes: Larn! A much shorter game than its contemporaries, the main dungeon is only 10 floors, but features 100 levels of difficulty and ... taxes??? Still being updated today and celebrating […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Game 6 of our 100th episode extravaganza in July will cover the legendary game Hack! Originally developed by high school students, it would become the basis of the still popular and even more legendary Nethack. It’s also one of the few video games listed in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

In development for years, we finally look at the gamified productivity app that asks the question: "what if the game part was actually fun?" Using #SlayTheSpire like mechanics, checking off items gives you bonuses to fight cyber facist oligarchs. Developed by podcast co-host @hardreset, he's […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

Our 100th episode's part 2 will focus on 4 major games that were the first to be properly called "rogue-likes". The first of which will be a deep dive on Moria! An open-source redesign of Rogue, you descend 50 levels to fight the all-powerful Balrog. It pioneered the concept of a starting town […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

For our upcoming 100th episode 3-parter, part 1 will conclude with a deep dive on none other than 1980's Rogue! The one that kicked off this whole fun mess that we're podcasting about, Rogue really was ahead of its time by decades. So many games owe their lineage directly here! […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Rift Wizard 3 comes out later this month, so for a special bonus episode of the podcast, I sat down with its creator Dylan White to talk details! I had originally budgeted 30 minutes for us to chat, but we happily went over that by twice as much. Lots of great conversation about gamedev and […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

Game 3 of our 9 part mega summer special 100th episode will focus on Colossal Cave Adventure! An inductee into the Video Game Hall of Fame, ADVENT inspired the first adventure games, text-based games, and possibly most of interactive fiction overall! Many modern games owe its lineage to ADVENT […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

Exo Rally Championship (XRC) is a super cool take on procedurally generated racing. Something like the Dakar Rally in space, the environmental design is cool, the futuristic racing gates are fun, and balancing your rig in the air off a 500m jump with gas vents is quite tense! […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

Game 2 in our 9-game, 100th episode special in late July will look at pedit5, aka The Dungeon from the PLATO system in 1975! The first ever computer RPG game translating D&D mechanics to the digital world, it also introduced random encounters in its fixed environs. A direct inspiration for […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

Cats and the internet: a match made even better through the tactical RPG breeding game Mewgenics! The biggest hit by @edmundmcmillen since Binding of Isaac, we scour the sewers, cross the desert, and travel through time with our fluffy kitty buddies. grogpod.zone/2026-06-05-mewgenics […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

every game can be classified in one of the two categories: first-person shooter or email rimworld is email balatro is a first person shooter despite how it looks, hitman 2 is email

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

Our 100th episode 3-parter kicks off late July with discussion on game 1 in our 9-game block: Star Trek 1971! A game that predates almost all, its randomly generated galaxy with permadeath combat against the Klingons is an obvious inspiration to the 1980 release of Rogue. Did you play this or […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

@Play: Larn Turns 40 Larn, created by Noah Morgan, may his name be sung by the bards forever, is a venerable classic roguelike game, from the same era as Moria and the first Hacks. It's always been more obscure than the other games but was still popular, and it's still played today. atsb, aka […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

Prophet Margin is a very charming roguelite about building economic trade networks in a cute fantasy world. Your gods demand thread! And tools! And apples! So how are you going to build your supply lines and towns to satisfy them? Lots of crunchy decision making that reminds me of optimizing […]

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Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

The Steam Deck has updated its pricing to "priced out of relevance" #steamdeck

Grogpod Roguelike Podcast @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

"What is this, a crossover episode???" I recently guest hosted on another podcast that specializes solely on roguelite games: The Roguepod Litecast! We talked about the roguelite that revolutionized the genre: The Binding of Isaac by @edmundmcmillen Danny and David do a great job deep diving […]

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