Roguelike vs Roguelite - what's the difference? (whatnerd.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Risk@feddit.uk to c/games@lemmy.world

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My takeaway is that it's only original Rogue fans that care about the delineation of the terms. Is there a modern (i.e. post 2000s game) that matches the definition of a roguelike as given in the article?

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[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

I don’t really agree with that - just because the playstyle is different doesn’t mean the genre is different.

Besides, individual games have multiple genres. You can have a turn-based roguelike, platformer roguelike, action roguelike, etc. The term roguelike has come to define the common elements of procedural generation + permadeath. Anything else is a secondary genre tag.