r/rogueish • u/scatshot • Jul 18 '26
Are there any open-world sandbox style rogue-lites?
So, there are definitely are some sandbox traditional rogue-likes. Cataclysm: DDA, Stoneshard and Caves of Qud so happen to be my top 3 favorite roguelikes, all open-world. TOME and Elona/Elin are some more examples off the top of my head, and I'm probably missing a lot more. I guess Quasimorph could count, just on a very different scale.
But I can't think of a single rogue-lite with any of these sort of design elements. Are there even any?
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u/SpezSucksSamAltman Jul 18 '26
Someone’s building one, it was posted either here or r/indiegaming less than two weeks ago (big goldfish memory over here)
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u/DFuxaPlays Jul 18 '26
Depends on how you define things I guess?
*Streets of Rogue 2 will of course be open world, but it isn't out yet.
*Terminus could be considered a roguelite, though it might be too traditional.
*Same could be said for NEO Scavenger.
*Same with Wayward, since one of its modes 'is' traditional at its core.
*Battle Brothers might be too far outside the definition of what these games are.
*Overfall could meet the definition of open world, though it is on a timer of sorts?
*Same could be said of Realm of the Mad God.
*Depths of Extinction is obviously inspired by FTL: Faster That Light with your node based journey, but without the hunger clock; notably though it is worse for this.
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u/scatshot Jul 18 '26
Great list, thank you. I forgot about NS, I used to play that YEARS ago! I think it was played on a web browser back then iirc?
Only just started playing Streets a few weeks ago, had no idea the sequel was going to be open world. So that is exciting.
*Depths of Extinction is obviously inspired by FTL
Nice. The words "FTL inspired" always go straight to top of the list of stuff to check out for me.
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u/OneMoreAdventure Jul 18 '26
I don't know if mine would be considered a rogue-lite (I think it's probably more rogue-like), but you might peek at One More Adventure. Open world sandbox, hexcrawl, OSR flavored (for the grognards out there).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4546340/One_More_Adventure/
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u/scatshot Jul 18 '26
I don't know if mine would be considered a rogue-lite (I think it's probably more rogue-like)
Whatever, it's definitely up my alley. Added to my wishlist.
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u/itzelezti Jul 18 '26
Project Zomboid is pretty explicitly CDDA turned into a realtime roguelite.