Roguelike

Do you know how much music I've made for roguelike games? Yeah.

Like roguelike roguelike is the seller right now.

Roguelike is the new trend.

It is the new Metroidvania.

It is a new narrative based game.

Roguelike is right now your hottest seller.

So yeah, I make a lot of music for roguelike.

It's also because it's independent.

On the other hand, I don't see people throw a fit that, like, Hades is based on Rogue, like, in the game style.

Like, it's called a Roguelike.

And so, like, I don't know where that line is, and I feel like Pokemon fandom as a whole is trying to find that line.

Can I be-

Lost me.

What do you mean? You don't like roguelikes? Roguelikes?

No.

Really? Why not?

So I think some of this is the nomenclature changing, but also some of this is just what people like changing.

And certainly our big headline takeaway is that Roguelike and Roadlight went up.

And they were tags in 2021, but almost no one was using them.

You know, they are now number one and number two by a mile, if you look at all games that sold at least 50,000 copies in 2025.

it? Yes.

Roguelike FPS.

Oh, Roguelike FPS.

Fun.

I do like a good Roguelike FPS, though.

But this looks very much like Fortnite.

Yes.

Yeah, but listeners, highly recommend if you want that kind of Life is Strange, road trippy.

Roguelike road trip.

Firewalk.

Very different.

Roguelike, yeah.

The roguelike aspect is really cool.

And just some very endearing characters.

Yeah.

This, you know, th- th- this being something where at the end of it there's a winner, where Nightreign is, is PVE, just, you know, we're out there, roguelike, you know?

Roguelike, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So yeah, for a PVP game, phase-based, you know, very interesting, very, um, particular structure for this thing.

You might be asking, asking then, well, how do you earn Virtue? If Virtue is, like, the goal, if I'm out here in these maps trying to earn more Virtue than the other seven players, how do I do that? And it's very interesting.