Rogue Survivor is a "still in development" roguelike that features a scenario where you are attempting to survive a zombie outbreak. The game is in alpha right now, but it is playable.
(MasonicGamer.com) Many of you have probably never even heard of, let alone played the original Rogue, a game written for a Unix-based college computer system more than 30 years ago. There’s a good chance that if you only spend your time on mainstream AAA titles you may not have even played any of its numerous spiritual successors (known collectively as roguelikes). That said, while Rogue and the Roguelikes it spawned are not even remotely mainstream, it has had an enormous influence on gaming, and perhaps as a backlash to the recent focus on fun and accessible games, its brutal legacy is being felt more than ever.
For those of you that don’t know, Rogue was a top-down RPG that put you in the shoes of an adventurer entering a dark and foreboding dungeon. While the graphics used were incredibly primitive by today’s standards, its core ideas are surprisingly modern.
dat ASCII dungeon...
really, after playing dwarf fortress in adventure mode i can't go back to any kind of turn-based RPG
the battles are so viceral and give you so much freedom to engage in anyway you like...
Roguelikes have never been dying to the best of my knowledge.
Am I missing something? Did Roguelikes get cancer?
Big budget, zombie-themed games don't understand what the undead truly represent, but these upcoming indie titles may actually evoke that desperation, fear, and isolation.
All they need to do is make the player extremely vulnerable and punish them for failing. Demon's Souls does this (makes enemies as strong as player) and it makes the very scary. Especially on the first play through with traps and not knowing how to kill bosses (if boss kills you, you go back to the start of the stage). They need to add that and make sure everything is scarce. Basically if the game is like Dead Space with the stuff above then I think it should be good. But vulnerability is the next step.
Really looking forward to Dead State. I've been following its development since the announcement.
The RDR zombie dlc was actually decent as far as a zombie game goes. It wasn't mindless even if it focused a little too much on combat. But otherwise, it was a step or two above most completely mindless zombie games out there.
