Omegabowl 2: The 2024 Roguelike Playoffs

Season 2 has come to an end with an impressive slate of top-tier rogue games! If you’ve never listened to the show before, these recap episodes are a great place to start. This year we see how well our new #1 overall rated game of Slay the Spire will hold off contenders like Vampire Survivors and Balatro. We revisit some oldies and goodies with games spanning releases all the way back to 2003! We have some great listener comments sprinkled throughout, including some of the devs from games that we’ve covered. So go get a corndog (grogdog?), a #1 fan foam finger or two, and strap in for our longest, and therefore best podcast episode to date.

Our finalists include:

Balatro
DoomRL
Heat Signature
Into the Breach
Inscryption
Jupiter Hell
Risk of Rain 2
Slay the Spire
Slice & Dice
Star of Providence
Vampire Survivors
World of Horror

Who will take the ultimate prize of the GROGPOD Omegabowl???

! The full tournament bracket with spoiled results can be found here

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Transcript

1:54 - Tournament plan, categories, and games
7:04 - Wildcard 1: Risk of Rain 2 vs Heat Signature
13:42 - Wildcard 2: Slice & Dice vs Star of Providence
23:48 - Wildcard 3: Balatro vs DoomRL
30:06 - Wildcard 4: Inscryption vs World of Horror
38:57 - Division 1: Slay the Spire vs ???
44:40 - Division 2: Vampire Survivors vs ???
56:20 - Division 3: Jupiter Hell vs ???
1:03:44 - Division 4: Into the Breach vs ???
1:14:40 - Semi-finals 1 — possibly the REAL omegabowl finals here —
1:35:32 - Semi-finals 2
1:43:10 - Grand finals
1:58:24 - Show wind down

Next episode: Roguelike developer interviews from PAX West 2024!

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Intro music: Scott Schreer - NFL Fox

Outro music: Clark Aboud - Battle with the Champ