Seth Chapman talks about indie games, especially roguelike games by taking a close look at Hades. Seth also talks about Steam and early access to games.

Topic - Indie Games

• Intro / early access
• Hades
  • Soundtrack, mysterious story, progression, art styles, super high reviews
  • unique roguelike dungeon crawler
• Valheim
  • Procedurally generated, basically minecraft but with different/better graphics
  • over 5 million sales since feb 2021
• Risk of Rain 2
  • Roguelike, mystery, friends, combat and number/item scaling
  • 4 for 3 deal, day one
  • Risk of rain (2d v 3d)
• Slay the Spire
  • Deck builder, roguelike, secrets
• similarities in these games
• conclusion

Links mentioned in the episode:

• https://www.supergiantgames.com/
• https://www.irongatestudio.se/
• https://hopoogames.com/risk-of-rain-2/
• https://www.megacrit.com/
• https://store.steampowered.com/