Jupiter Hell Classic

I recently discovered and fell in love with traditional rogue-likes like Rogue, Nethack, ADOM, etc. The fact that someone/people turned Doom into one is just awesome for nostalgia. It doesn't have the ASCII style that I have come to love, but this game is great! I know there exists DoomRL and other free versions of this game, but I was happy to throw a few bucks to the dev(s) for support. It's not as complex as the roguelikes from the '80s and '90s, which is perfect for the times that I just want to play and reminisce without doing too much thinking. It's my relax roguelike. (still some thinking and strategy involved, though). The metal music is a great touch also! I highly recommend this game for anyone that likes traditional roguelikes and the classic Doom games. Thanks, Chaosforge! Edit: A couple minutes after I made this review, I found the DRL mod pack in the Steam workshop. Now I like it even more! The sound effects and the music are familiar, from the classic games. I love how it gives the option (at startup) to choose between DRL and Jupiter Hell Classic. This game is awesome.

Finally, the supreme form of DRL. Jupiter Hell's art and vibe changes kinda ruined a perfect system for me, so to see it essentially "fork" an earlier path of development like this to keep the old vibes while still progressing was extremely exciting. This game will always be the perfect example of a coffee break roguelike, and I'm glad that it can continue as its own thing now without the IP baggage or the weird 3D stuff. It's finally free. I mean, not literally free. I'm glad to give the devs my money, though. If you've never heard of DRL or anything like that, I still think this is for you, because it's for anyone interested in traditional roguelikes. It's one of the simplest ones, yet it still follows all the rules, down to the movement grid and item management particulars. It's a great introduction to the subgenre without being boring to veterans - far from it! P.S. it's truly Steam Deck optimized with a great control scheme and everything. That does a lot for its pick up and play nature.

I like this better than Jupiter Hell because I don't have to keep using cover

GFG 9000 (Good Freaking Game)

English / Français Not recommanded if : _ You hate kittens and want to hurt them (puppy too). _ You don't eat meat. _ You hate turn-based game or using your Brain. _ You are an evil demon and don't want to friendly fire. I didn't played this game, just bought "Classic" to support the Devs because the first Jupiter Hell is a Masterpiece of turn-based traditional RogueLike (more focused on range but melee is possible and my fav) and deserve all the praise for the Doom-Sci fi-horror vibes + metal music (and the price is so low/worth it). BTW Devs added tons of content in original game, for FREE and AGAIN !!! (3rd massiv update adding content after release - last one 6 years later). ------------------------------------------------- NON Recommandé SI : _ Vous détestez les chattons et souhaitez leur faire du mal (aux pitis chiots aussi). _ Vous ne mangez pas de viande. _ Vous haïssez les jeux tour-par-tour, ou utiliser votre Cerveau. _ Vous êtes démon malfaisant et ne souhaitez pas exterminer vos congénères. Je n'ai pas joué à ce jeu, je l'ai acheté pour supporter les développeurs car Jupiter Hell original est un chef-d'œuvre du genre "RogueLike traditionnel tour-par-tour" (principalement à distance mais le corps-à-corps reste possible et demeure mon style préféré) ; ces jeux méritent toutes les louanges et une meilleur exposition pour son ambiance "DooM - Science fiction - horreur" + musique métal (+ le prix très abordable qui vaut le coup). De plus, les Développeurs ont ENCORE ajouté du contenu supplémentaire au jeu original, et Gratuitement !!! (3ème mise-à-jour massive après la sortie - la dernière 6 ans après la sortie du jeu).

Old school roguelike. Roguelike as it should be. It seems it's under quite active development, updates come regularly.

As someone that has been playing since DoomRL was in it's early stages, I was ecstatic to see this come out, and after the last couple patches, I can say this broadly meets or exceeds that game in pretty much every area. There's a ton of content- enemies, weapons, special levels, traits, consumables; all sorts of stuff. While there's some stuff I miss from the original, if I could only have one of the two, I'd rather have this game. And it's still got updates in the pipeline! And you don't have to choose anyways, because there's a DoomRL mod! Buy this game, it's a fantastic labour of love, built for the fans. In an era of lousy cash grabs, nostalgia bait and companies and developers who betray their own audience this game restores a lot of my faith in the industry. Cheers to an awesome developer and others like him, thanks for the awesome game!

Beautiful and great! super easy to get into if you are hesitant on pure-roguelike styles! Give it a try!