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Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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Loot Rascals

Loot rascals is made by Ricky Haggot of Hollow Ponds, who also worked on Hohokum. It's got this really cool card system where enemies drop cards behind them and you have eight card slots in your inventory. You can like pause and look at and cards will say things like plus two to the card below this and plus one to the card to the right of it. And so when you're deep into the game, deep into a run, you might be stopping to tweak your cards between like every turn or every enemy,. which sounds like a headache, but I actually love it. Michael Stalmeyer says his favorite roguelike is Spelunky

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