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As a once-serious competitive shooter player, I can say that roguelikes and roguelites has been great substitutes as I've aged and lost the drive and time required for competitive team games.

I love the process of going from getting my ass kicked to speed running with multiple stacking difficulties. Roguelikes are also much easier to pick up and put down.

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Do you have recommendations? Same story for me, and I've been trying to find low-involvement, fast pick-up games that I can play when I'm brain dead after work but it's surprisingly hard to find.

Slay the Spire, Inscryption (which now has an endless mode), and Ring of Pain are a few relatively new games that comes to mind.

Also, not a rougelike but the newly released Marvel Snap is a really well thought out card battler where every match is just 2-3 minutes long.

Great recommendations. For a more traditional roguelike, I’d add Caves of Qud to the list. It’s really good.

If you want to try Rogue Light, Vampire Survivors has been a blast to play. Similar: Brotato.

I really like Dead Cells

FTL and Streets of Rogue

Binding of Isaac is really great as an approachable Roguelike.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon on Android and iOS is excellent. I guess it's on steam now as of this year if you prefer not to play on a phone. Great game, entirely free and donation supported.

Besides other recommendations:

* Across the Obelisk: A decent deckbuilder

* Risk of Rain: A 2d side-scrolling platformer. There's also Risk of Rain 2, but 1 is better IMO

* The Binding of Isaac: Top down bullet hell - the game that 'resurrected' this genre

* BPM: A rhythm shooter

* Darkest dungeon / darkest dungeon 2: A party based dungeon explorer

* Death's Gambit: 2D dark souls basically

* Salt and Sanctuary: 2D dark souls

* Hades: Top down brawler

* Monster train: Deckbuilder

* Enter the Gungeon: Top down shooter

* Neon Abyss: Side scrolling shooter

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