43 episodes
GROGPOD Roguelike Podcast Scott V. Burger
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The GROGPOD Roguelike Podcast is a bi-weekly show about four friends talking about a featured Roguelike game. We cover the full spectrum of titles, from the more modern, action-oriented games like Binding of Isaac and Hades to the traditonal roguelike designs of games like Cogmind and Caves of Qud. Join us each episode as we unpack what makes a roguelike game fun (or not) and then rank it against the compendium we've compiled thus far.
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Lonestar
Okay, 3…2…1… Let’s Jam! This week we are blasting off across the galaxy in pursuit of scum and villainy to collect some bounties for the space sheriff in Lonestar! With a unique spin on the roguelike deckbuilding genre, we debate over what is red versus orange as we power up our lasers in an epic showdown. Well, when we’re not using our vacation days of course! Build up your outlaw-hunting ship with tons of parts and upgrade those energy points to deal massive damage, or spend those points to defuse the spider mine the enemy has planted on you! Sit down in a space saloon for a nice relaxing card game, but be on the lookout for someone’s pet cat wearing a scouter level eyepiece!
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1:36 - game stats
2:43 - one sentence description
16:58 - our story begins
1:14:23 - rankings and final thoughts
1:22:00 - similar games
Next episode: Vampire Survivors
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Intro music: Sonny Rollins - Way Out West
Outro music: Lonestar - Main Menu Theme -
Barony
Chip chap chipchipchap! For our listener-requested episode this week, we are dungeon diving through Barony: the voxelized roguelike with split-screen co-op! Listen to our encounters with horrible gnomes, armies of human villagers, and Pac-Man ghost scouts. There’s a lot to unpack from a game with just one axis of movement, be it spellcrafting, hunger management, commanding your army of the Zap Brigade against the minotaur, and navigating halls of rolling boulders. Lucky for you there’s a robust tutorial system…if you survive! Drop in and listen or we’ll drop you into The Underworld!
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1:09 - game stats
3:00 - one sentence description
6:50 - our story begins
1:07:48 - rankings and final thoughts
1:15:18 - similar games
1:16:36 - listener email from the Wildermyth developers!
Next episode: Lonestar
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Intro music: Billy Cobham - Red Baron
Outro music: Barony - Merchant’s Theme -
Returnal
Helios has been abandoned! This week we’re playing the multiple BAFTA Award-winning Triple-A roguelite shooter Returnal. We continue bullet hell/heck month with swarms of huge colorful orbs, energy swords, and as many tentacled Matrix-inspired laser squids as you can shake your noodly appendages at! Join us in our foray into the first actual big-budget rogue-game of the pod with a game that had been locked behind Playstation 5 exclusivity like a gigantic interlocking metal door. We were able to just barely eek through the podcaster-sized hole in the bottom, but can we beat the boss that is…uh…well the first boss even??? Aim assist to maximum!
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2:10 - game stats
4:53 - one sentence description
5:30 - all devs go to heaven warning (sort of)
16:22 - our story begins
55:00 - story spoilers discussion
1:04:05 - rankings and final thoughts
1:14:30 - similar games
Next episode: Barony
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Intro music: McCoy Tyner - Search For Peace
Outro music: Bobby Krlic - Hyperion -
Star of Providence
Ghostly squeal! This week we’re descending the floors of an ancient facility filled with ghosts, mages, machines, talking cats, and bullets! So, so many bullets. What else would you expect from the bullet hell game that is Star of Providence? A charming, NES-inspired modern throwback, Star of Providence puts us to the test with harrowing boss fights, secret endings, and more guns than you can shake a sword that shoots bullets at!
Team D-13 were kind enough to give a quick Q&A on how Star of Providence came about for us. Give it a look-see here!
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1:52 - game stats
2:52 - one sentence description
19:20 - our story begins
1:07:47 - rankings and final thoughts
1:17:24 - similar games
1:20:25 - upgrade terminal podcast shoutout
Next episode: Returnal
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Intro music: Time-Lapse City - GoGo Penguin
Outro music: Tonal Dissonance - garoslaw -
Into the Breach (with Woody Ciskowski)
We did it listeners, we saved the city! This week we revisit Subset Games with their hit mecha-tactics bug-squisher puzzle-roguelike: Into the Breach. Time travel shenanigans are at a maximum this time, as we push our recording date back a couple days to get everyone in here. Woody joins us once more to talk about balancing the destruction of apartment buildings with making sure the train gets to its destination on time. Jump mechs, swap mechs, science vesseles, weapons to surpass Metal Gear, bugs that think!?!? Into the Breach is a timeless gem of intense noodle-scratching thought, so drop in from the sky and help us save the corporate islands!
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1:39 - game stats
3:00 - one sentence description
14:21 - our story begins
1:15:49 - rankings and final thoughts
1:28:50 - similar games
Next episode: Star of Providence
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Intro music: Stanley Turrentine - June Bug
Outro music: Ben Prunty - Into the Breach -
Balatro
This week we’re drawing a straight with the recent smash hit poker-puzzle deckbuilder Balatro! Join our four-of-a-kind hosts to talk about who will have the last laugh between random card draws and overtly complicated computer simulations. But no adventure is complete without joker hats and joker feet! Many jokes and many quips have passed behind our funny lips. By poking fun and making merry, our podcasts won’t be half as scary. So don’t be timid, don’t be nervous - Joker’s here, at your service! Aheuhheuuehehhah!
Find a link to Will’s optimal hand play simulator here.
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1:18 - game stats
3:25 - one sentence description
13:20 - our story begins
1:17:15 - rankings and final thoughts
Next episode: Into the Breach
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Intro music: Lee Morgan - The Joker
Outro music: LouisF - Balatro OST