Today's contest features Devolver Digital's hit game The Swords of Ditto for Switch! The Swords of Ditto just launched an awesome new expansion pack, Mormo's Curse, which adds all sorts of new stuff to the game. Naturally, I stood boldly at...

The wonderful roguelike action game Dead Cells will be heading to mobile devices this year. Developer Playdigious will be porting over the game to iOS this summer for $9.99 with an Android port being released later on. This new version wil...

Enter our contest for your chance to win a Switch copy of Blazing Beaks! I know I keep saying I'm the resident dog and cat video game correspondent, but I'm also trying to branch out. Specifically, to ducks. Ducks are awesome. They're cute ...

Early Access is always a bit of a gamble for developers. They are putting forth a project in progress that they plan to continue working on but still want people to pay for it. It's also a gamble for consumers as it's not as simple as readi...

Next time you're in a Binding of Isaac, Nuclear Throne, Enter the Gungeon sorta mood but you're craving something a little lighter, think of Skelly Selest. It's a classic skeleton-against-the-world tale. Skelly Selest is part roguelite dung...

A month into Steam Early Access, Risk of Rain 2 has already gotten off to a tremendous start. But what comes next? And when? The co-op roguelike game has a roadmap to field those questions and more. If all goes according to plan, Hopoo Game...

Have you ever been enraptured by a single image from a video game? Just one shot, one minuscule slice of a final product that you just can't take eyes off of, that lives in your brain for days or even weeks after? I've had my fair share. Th...

I'm Destructoid's resident Dog and Cat Games Correspondent Extraordinaire. You might have noticed I changed my avatar to match this distinction. So of course anything that comes through the tipline that mentions dogs or cats gets an instant...

When Risk of Rain 2 was announced to be in 3D instead of 2D, I wasn't sure what to think. I loved that the developers were going in a new direction with the IP, but was worried it wouldn't quite have the same panache. I was so freaking...

You hold all the cards to winning today's contest for a Switch copy of Monster Slayers! Attention villagers -- we have a monster problem. A pretty big one. They're everywhere. They smell, and they're mean, and frankly. I just don't like the...

Developer Croteam has stealth released a brand new Serious Sam title on Steam. A roguelike, top-down shooter, Serious Sam: Tormental sees players jumping into the mind of ancient Egyptian god Mental to stop him from doing bad things...or so...

I'm not sure what else I can say about the roguelike genre that I haven't already written. So many of these games play by the same rules that describing one can be easily applied to another. Just swap out some names and platforms and you're...

While visiting Headup Games' booth at PAX East this weekend, the first thing about their new title Dead End Job was its very iconic art style. If a game looks like The Ren & Stimpy Show, then it already has my attention.  To be com...

Indie, roguelike, and pixel-art. These three buzzwords have been increasingly prevalent in recent years. After the immense success of The Binding of Isaac, everyone and their mother started to jump on the roguelike bandwagon. Edmund McMille...

Bandai Namco invited me by its PAX East booth to get a look at Double Fine's upcoming action rogue-like Rad. The top-down action game has you pummeling mutants for survival in a randomly generated world that has succumbed to not one but two...

Dodge Roll is moving on from Enter the Gungeon after finding more success than the team "ever dreamed to imagine," but first, we're getting one last free update. A Farewell to Arms is coming April 5. The original idea was to have a new ran...

Although we're used to seeing the phrase "sold best on Switch," Dead Cells developer Motion Twin confirmed during GDC that PC was their top-selling platform. Yet, the Switch did come in second right behind it, beating out the PS4 and X...

Get your groove back with our contest for ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove! I never understood how something could be both funky and fresh, but ToeJam and Earl have always been known as funky fresh. Quite the conundrum, right? Well you...

After years of wading around on its own hosted website and supporting itself through Patreon, the mother of all rogue simulations Dwarf Fortress is making its way to Steam and Itch.io in the near future. Part-management-sim, part-rogue, Dwa...

A few months back, I got the opportunity to play ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove with series creator Greg Johnson. In a relaxed and comfortably humid showroom, the two of us sat side-by-side, guiding the titular heroes through this fr...

I was excited for RemiLore: Lost Girl in the Lands of Lore. A Diablo-style action adventure where your main pickups are popsicles and candies, where you can wield a chocolate-covered banana as a weapon, all set in a bright and colorful...

ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove is out tomorrow and PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One and...it's actually pretty good according to our own CJ Andriessen. It'll also have a little extra pepper on it, as the one and only Macaulay ...

Indie outfit SuperScarySnakes has announced that their upcoming PC title, Black Future '88 will also be released on Nintendo Switch as a console exclusive. The retro-styled action game will launch on both platforms later this year."Black Fu...

Enter today's contest for a chance to win a Steam copy of Dead Cells. Who here likes roguelikes? What about highly-reviewed roguelikes? If something impresses Chris Carter, then I'd say it's a pretty solid bet. Check out Chris' review for D...

If you held off buying Dead Cells for Nintendo Switch because you knew the developers were going to tighten up the less-than-perfect frame rate, today's the day to see what the fuss is about. Motion Twin has brought its game-changing 1.1 up...