From hacking and slashing to looting and exploring, 2019 was a decent year for roguelike games. Games like these really take the edge off after a stressful day... Or week.

It's about days when you can just sit back and kill endless hordes of enemies and become stronger with each corpse robbed... Let's take a look at some of the high-rated roguelike games that came out of 2019 as we step into the new year.

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10 Void Bastards

Bright-neon color palettes and comic book effects, Void Bastards is a roguelike game centered around first-person shooting and strategy.

Action-packed and full of a comic book art style, you'll find yourself being a leader coordinating every movement of these Void Bastards and determining how to react when faced with adversities. The Bastards are counting on you to make the right decisions and aim accordingly in this action roguelike game.

9 Dark Devotion

Dark Devotion is a pixelated, dark-fantasy RPG with roguelike elements. It's a classic side-scroller with challenging components sometimes linked to Dark Souls difficulty. This is a roguelike for people who enjoy dark fantasy, challenge, and a rich story all in one.

Having to travel through an ancient temple where your faith is confronted and questioned, you come across many evil beings meant to put a stop to your gospel truth. You're able to have different fighting styles, gain new weapons and armor, and defeat foes throughout each level while indulging in a detailed storyline.

8 Undermine

Heading back to what we all think of when we think "Roguelike", Undermine gives us 2D pixel wonder in this mining roguelike adventure.

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Undermine offers dungeon-crawling excitement with randomly-generated caves and shops to upgrade and buy items along the way. What this game also offers is a roleplaying element full of story and choices. This roguelike is for gamers who favor video games with a strong, creative storyline with some fun in between!

7 Risk Of Rain 2

Risk Of Rain 2 is the sequel to a game that involves lost planets and laser guns. Known for its neon, colorful cartoon art style, the Risk Of Rain 2 offers colors and shooting where other roguelikes don't.

Risk Of Rain is known for being able to explore an exotic planet while defeating hordes of monsters and aliens in a 2D platformer world. The sequel to this game takes new strides, taking a whole new artistic approach in their much-enjoyed game. Playing by yourself or with a group of friends you'll encounter small tussles to large bosses.

6 Dredgers

No pretty lights and in-depth story, just your bare feet smacking against the dungeon floors as you fight for your life. That's Dredgers for you. This is a roguelike game where you just keep going. You have to keep going through the levels of procedurally generated dungeons fighting all sorts of enemies and when you die, it's hasta la vista baby.

Dredgers also offers around 30 different races and species... and creatures to play from. Each... thing has its own unique set of abilities to go along with the main classes you choose from. Level up as you go, find keys that unlock different rooms and secrets and complete the dungeons.

5 Slay The Spire

There are many different, unique types of roguelike dungeon-crawling video games and Slay The Spire happens to be one of those. You aren't simply running around ruins and caves fighting creepy crawlies, you're playing a strategic card game made to defeat foes on your path to victory.

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For anyone who enjoys deckbuilding and games like Magic The Gathering, Gwent from The Witcher, and Hearthstone, while also loving roguelike games; This is the game for you.

4 Deep Rock Galactic

Fire, explosions, bear-sized spiders and muscular dwarves. What more could a person ask for? With Deep Rock Galactic, that's what you get, and more. I know that plenty of people love the dwarven race in video games and would love nothing more than to play one for a whole game and just blow stuff up. This one is for you, boys.

This is a co-op, dungeon crawling game where you mine large, destructible caves and defeat hordes of who knows what. A unique roguelike that is action-packed and never-ending in decimation and excitement.

3 Noita

Have you ever wanted Dark Souls, but pixels and dungeons? Have you ever said to yourself, "I am eager to die 20 times within my first playthrough of a game and wonder what different fluids could possibly injure me now."? So have we!

Noita is a procedurally generated action roguelike where physics is upstanding. Make your way through dark caves, running into strange enemies and dangerous anomalies with personal magical abilities. Noita offers gamers an action-packed, physical challenge with glowing pixels for atmospheric effect.

2 Children Of Morta

At first glance, Children Of Morta looks like eye-catching, pixilated, fantasy galore. You get that and more when playing this game. With an artistically done pixel world done with atmospheric color palettes to play to your roguelike, dungeon heart's content, this game is to die for.

This isn't just a game about going through hordes of zombies in dungeons. In between all the chaos, you get family-time with this band of heroes struggling to fix things brewing in the distance. Story, art, and powerups make this game a must-play.

1 Hades

Last but certainly not least, Hades. Supergiant Games' newest and greatest game yet. Supergiant Games is known for creating atmospheric roguelike games that have just the right amount of focus on soundtrack and voice acting. Their games bring about immense character and emotion that Hades did not stray very far from itself.

In the world of Hades, you fight sexy demons and Gods of all gender and size while drowning in passionate soundtracks and discussing crushes. This dungeon-crawling game is full of personality and challenge that is being constantly updated, giving it high replay value.

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