Tiny Rogues

A Podcast Review of Tiny Rogues: This week we cover the 2022 (early access) bullet hell Tiny Rogues and add it to the tier list! What happens when Danny and David disagree on tier list placement?

On this episode we go through the background that led to Tiny Rogues: the developer says he "sucked at Gungeon and had a dire wish to level up in the game and get some stats like in Path of Exile and brute force through [his] way through the game without needing to dodge things". Therein lies the whole thing Danny bumped on in this game - it presents itself as a bullet-hell but you can quickly get so overpowered that you never actually engage in the boss patterns or systems. Perhaps though that was user-error since he didn't understand the endgame difficulty system!

Tiny Rogues is a fantastic new entry to the roguelite canon - we've always felt that Diablo 2 is the GOAT in terms of loot and it's really fun to see that system ported in to a new roguelite. We realized while recording this episode that the early-access of it all makes it a bit hard to add to the tier list and we vowed to revisit the game when it gets a 1.0 release. That may also address a lot of the small quibbles with the game. Tiny Rogues didn't quite have the legs to get it into A tier but we'll see what it looks like in a few years!