You have 1 new message: a podcast episode about the hit roguelike mobile game Shattered Pixel Dungeon! We explore the android/ios sphere for the first time with an influential open source and community-driven spin on the dungeon crawling genre. Join us old boomers as we puzzle out why all the kids are looking at their phones all the time. Next episode: Enter the Gungeon Contact us at [email protected]! https://grogpod.zone Intro music: Sonny Rollins - Dial S For Sonny Outro music:...

Are you tired of the daily grind? Stressed out from the demands of modern life? Introducing Darkest Dungeons 2, the stress-relieving sequel that will transport you to a world where your worries melt away and your courage shines through. For the low, low price of … urhgm … $40, you too can battle eldritch horrors beyond your comprehension! Listen in on another contentious episode where the hosts try to keep their stress levels below the meltdown threshold. Next episode: Shattered Pixel...

We’re on the Highway to roguelike deckbuilding Hell this week, riding a Crazy Train filled with demons, sentient blackberry bushes, and occultic Lumières! We are also joined by special guest Joe Homes from Cephalofair Games: publisher of the award-winning tabletop deckbuilding game Gloomhaven, so there will be at least one person here who knows what they’re talking about in terms of game design. Come listen in on one of our highest rated games in a long while, as we discuss stategies to beat...

When you walk in Griftlands, you better watch your back. There’s no room for heroes, just mercenaries and hacks. Every decision counts, every card in your hand. Gonna need luck to get through this land. Join us as the podcast hosts use both our battle and negotiation decks to convince each other about Griftlands’ rankings this week. Tune in for Will’s chicanery-level rant on games that aren’t Slay the Spire. Better call Sal Ik-Derrick! Next episode: Monster Train Contact us at...

THE OOZE! IT SPREADS! We have a surprise double-feature this time because we accidentally beat our planned episode of Streets of Rogue too quickly. It turns out the apes that run this podcast ooked too hard for the new mayoral election and won in a landslide. So to balance out the podcast, we’re also talking about Devolver Digital’s surprise roguelike hit Loop Hero! Join us to hear about drug-hunting robots, zombie apocalypses, and the heat death of the universe. Brother may I have some more...

I am GROGPOD. I take care of the place while the Master is away. What’s that? Oh HAND of Fate! Yes that’s the game (not movie) that we’re playing this week. Join us as we talk through two games of card shuffling, gnome-kicking, moustache twirling mania with our special guest Dahlia Tolleth! The Master would definitley approve of you listening to this episode. Prepare to explore some trap-laden dungeons, negotiate with bandis and play some metronome-based fishing minigames with Hand of Fate 1...

Roll for initiative! This week’s episode has us examining the world of Dungeons and Dragons through the DnD combat simulator Low Magic Age. Join us for dicussions on vancian magic, royalty free music overlaps with previous episodes, and summoner-based arena races! We put the pal back in paladin and wonder why it is that you can’t make an Asamir chatoic evil. Next episode: Hand of Fate 1+2 Contact us at [email protected]! https://grogpod.zone Intro music: Teru - Lincoln Center Jazz...

Query(Cogmind) » A podcast episode about evolving a robot in a facility hell-bent on destroying it. We talk about one of the most influential modern traditional roguelike games of the past few years and why Will probably needs thicker glasses. This episode will crawl up from the scrapyard to escape to the surface of Tau Ceti IV with all sorts of lasers and tank treads attached. Trojan(Download) » Force(Listen). Chance of Success: High (100%) Next episode: Low Magic Age Contact us at...

This week is a podcast episode so cunning you could brush your teeth with it! We finally answer the question: what if Dwarf Fortress, Zork, and Black Adder all joined forces into a game made by a single person in a 70,000 line long single program? Why of course the answer is Warsim: The Realm of Aslona! In our most widely divergent podcast thus far, we talk about goblin arena fighting statistics and gambling addictions, failing history exams of the Far North, and of course, the...

If we FITS then we SITS down to listen to this week’s episode on Fights in Tight Spaces! Drop into a room with a bunch of very patient and polite criminals for this highly stylized deckbuilding roguelike. Keep your momentum up, sharpen up those high heels, and watch those replays of the spinning roundhouse kicks yeet those biker gangs right out the door! Next episode: Warsim - The Realm of Aslona Contact us at [email protected]! https://grogpod.zone Intro music: Freddie Hubbard -...

Today’s forecast is partly sunny with a Risk of Rain. Join us to talk about the 10 year old (but timeless in our hearts) loot-collecting roguelike platformer with an incredibly enduring legacy. Be a Burning Witness to a podcast where two Meat Nuggets try to convince the third that his Tough Times could really just be solved by seven Crowbars and a Hydraulic Gauntlet. Next episode: Fights in Tight Spaces Contact us at [email protected]! https://grogpod.zone Intro music: Bill Evans -...

Stack ‘em up! This week we’re playing the 2022 (literal) card game by the Sockpop Collective that became way more popular than they could have imagined. Join our Strange Portal of discussion about walls of carrots, ninjas, magic dust, and booster packs as we build a village of slowly completing progress bars in this relaxed and chill game of survival. Next episode: Risk of Rain Contact us at [email protected]! https://grogpod.zone Intro music: Thelonious Monk Quartet - ‘Round...

Call me Sna- uh, er, Inc. Invisible, Inc. The tactical espionage (action?) game by renknown developers Klei Entertainment! Your mission, should you choose to download it, is to tune in on our descriptions of cybernetic noir, wireless daemon hacking, and comparisons with X-Com. Next episode: Stacklands Contact us at [email protected]! https://grogpod.zone Intro music: Bill Evans - Romain Outro music: Vince de Vera and Jason Garner - Plastech Cybermedical

A space plague has broken out, but you have to break in to The Pit! Join us as we dive through 30 floors of monsters and robots with shotguns, psionics, and hyper intelligent dolphins and explore the cartoonishly styled traditional roguelike from the Sword of the Stars creative universe. Next episode: Invisible, Inc. Contact us at [email protected]! https://grogpod.zone Intro music: Bill Evans - Santa Claus is Coming to Town Outro music: Ben Lam - Sword of the Stars Main Menu Theme

Fire up your warp drives because we’re outrunning the rebels to deliver to YOU what they’re after: a podcast about one of the most popular roguelikes of all time: FTL Faster Than Light. We are lucky to be joined by our good friend Woody Ciskowski from the Ultra64 / Wii-Universe podcast (https://www.ultra64podcast.com/) to talk about how giant alien spiders are no joke. Next episode: Sword of the Stars: The Pit Contact us at [email protected]! https://grogpod.zone Intro music: Eric...

Happy GROGsgiving all! This week we go down the wormhole on a couple super indie titles and one megapopular rogue. We talk about how Mario meets Inception with Cargo Commander, the overwhelming visual nature of Realm of the Mad God, and the spartan enigmatically of Din’s Curse. Next episode: FTL: Faster Than Light Contact us at [email protected]! Intro music: Bill Evans - Romain Outro music: Nineyards - Down the Drain

We kick off the roguelikes of 2012 with a collection of the some pretty extreme indie titles: Hack, Slash, Loot - a coffeebreak length roguelike with inventory slots as small as your character, the overall bamboozling title A Valley Without Wind, and the explosive squad-based shooter Pineapple Smash Crew. Thanks again for David Williamson and Rich Edwards for providing indie game dev Q&A for this episode. You can find David’s full response here and you can find Rich’s one here. Next...

Prepare to cry edition! For our spookiest episode yet, we are covering a historic pillar of the modern Roguelike genre by covering the 2011 smash hit The Binding of Isaac and its 2014 remaster The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. It’s not a trick, it will be a treat to listen to … if you dare traverse the depths of Mom’s basement! Next episode: Hack, Slash, Loot / A Valley Without Wind / Pineapple Smash Crew Contact us at [email protected] or on twitter @grogpod! Intro music: Charles Mingus...

We’re live! Join us for the first episode of the podcast on the surprise hit of 2011: Dungeons of Dredmor by Gaslamp Games. Get your Diggles in a row, stop by a vending machine and hear about our plans for the podcast and what we think about monster zoos. Next episode: The Binding of Isaac (2011) and The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (2014) Contact us at [email protected] or on twitter @grogpod! Intro/outro music “Blue Monk” by Thelonious Monk Trio