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Well I'll put in my two pieces. Probably the best modern roguelike game out there. There's only two that I know of currently. Cogmind is modern while Rift Wizard is more of a classic arcadey look to it but still modern.

Cogmind is essentially an upgraded version of nethack with an actual story involved. You often don't get roguelikes with stories in them especially not with multiple story endings and optional stuff (I think only Tales of Maj'eyal comes somewhat close). There's seriously several different branches you can take in cogmind. It also accomodates for several different builds, you want to be a stealthy boy go ahead, you want to be giant tank? Go ahead. All those are viable. Skill accounts for a lot in cogmind rather than luck. With the hacking system in place and even meta knowledge use of terminals you can be surprisingly flexible in your builds.

Weaponry is awesome and the graphics for an ascii game or tile game look absolutely beautiful. If anyone ever wanted to dive into a roguelike and see what it is to be one blind and thrown to the wolves with nobody holding your hands? Cogmind would be the one.

The price on this game NEVER goes down. The dev has legitimately been working on this for over 10 years I think alone? So he's not doing any sales since all of the games funds helps him develop the game more along with patreon proceeds. The dev is a nice guy and you can talk to him easily on the discord. I was surprised to learn the guy actually blocks time and considers it "work hours" to hang with the community. He regularly hosts streams of him playing the game in many different styles so people can learn from him or even ask questions.

So yeah, buy the game if you've ever enjoyed a true roguelike. I'm not talking hades or binding of isaac rogueLITES. I'm talking real roguelike like DCSS or nethack of the sort. If you don't know those games I mentioned well...now's the time to learn with Cogmind!