About this podcast
The GROGPOD Roguelike Podcast is a bi-weekly show about four friends talking about a featured Roguelike game. We cover the full spectrum of titles, from the more modern, action-oriented games like Binding of Isaac and Hades to the traditonal roguelike designs of games like Cogmind and Caves of Qud. Join us each episode as we unpack what makes a roguelike game fun (or not) and then rank it against the compendium we've compiled thus far.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 112 episodes
- White Knuckle · 1 h 38 minThe Mass…it hungers! This week we’re chalking up our hands to summit White Knuckle: the precision platformer horror roguelite that blends Half-Life, Portal, and SCP into an…
- Hades 2 · 2 h 2 minDeath to Chronos! This week we brew up an incantation to summon the sequel of one of our top 5 roguelites of the podcast: Hades 2! The famed house of the Underworld has been…
- Combolands · 1 h 25 minC-c-c-combo maker! This week we hunt through the forests of new roguelite releases and encounter Combolands: the town-building, deck-building, point-building game that takes its…
- Diablo 2: Resurrected (with Robert Lippens) · 1 h 46 minRakanishu! We have quite a treasure in the Horadric podcast this week by summoning the remaster of one of the highest rated procedural generation games of all time: Diablo 2…
- The Void Rains Upon Her Heart: Interview with Developer Angel Polanco · 50 minAt PAX West this year I had a great time interviewing Angel Polanco: the solo dev behind the incredibly well-rated bullet hell roguelite The Void Rains Upon Her Heart! An…
- STRAFE: Gold Edition · 1 h 51 minIt’s time to put the BOOM back into boomer shooters as we fire up the hottest graphics of 1996* with Strafe! Another entry in our Devolver Digital review catalogue, the…
- Coal LLC · 1 h 28 minIt’s Christmas in August as we unload the sooty petro-rocks from our stockings and crack open the clean-burning Coal LLC! The quick action mining-themed roguelite version of…
- Nordhold · 1 h 15 minRoguelites belong to the Nords! This week we return to tower defense rogue land with Nordhold: the vaguely Viking-themed tower defense roguelite featuring tower synergy systems…
- Episode 100 Part 3 - Brogue CE · 1 h 53 minA dark presence surrounds you, whispering promises of stolen power! Our episode 100 mega special concludes with a mega special game in the traditional roguelike sphere: Brogue!…
- Episode 100 Part 2 - Moria, Hack, Larn, Omega · 2 h 0 minWhat is this new devilry? Part 2 of the GROGPOD100 extravaganza continues, this time with a focus on the first ever rogue-like games ever made! Following the part 1 format, Scott…
- Episode 100 Part 1 - Rogue and its Predecessors · 1 h 59 minThe road to Rogue was paved with ascii, teletype, thousand-pound mainframes, and a hacker spirit only highschoolers and college kids and eminate. For our big 100th episode, we…
- BALL x PIT · 1 h 40 minBall don’t lie! This week we’re dropping into the chasm filled with Arkanoid-inspired enemies in BALL x PIT! The fabled city of Ballbylon has fallen and evil monsters have…
- Caves of Qud Part 3: Interview with Composer Craig Hamilton · 1 h 28 minMoon and Sun! Caves of Qud returns for our summer music episode, as I grabbed some time with the composer Craig Hamilton! Since Qud is a dramaturgical triad, we couldn’t NOT do a…
- Hard Reset · 2 h 11 min“You don’t have the cards!” This week we deep dive the cyberpunk productivity app roguelike deckbuilder hybrid that our very own co-host Will has been developing since 2018! A…
- Rift Wizard 3: Interview with Developer Dylan White · 1 h 34 minIt’s a special bonus episode this week! With Rift Wizard 3 launching in June 2026, I sat down with developer Dylan White to talk about the third game’s evolution, how its…
- Mewgenics · 2 h 7 minHe’s a bad bad kitty! We’re snapping our fingers and fighting through the alleways this week with Mewgenics! The long-awaited game by Binding of Isaac creator and roguelite genre…
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide · 1 h 43 minEmperor guide thy aim! Roguelikes and -lites span a spectrum, especially when they come as added game modes to big budget titles that aren’t roguey themselves. This week we…
- UFO 50 (with Woody Ciskowski) · 3 h 6 minPlay forever! It’s time to climb one of the most ambitious game releases in recent memory by dusting off UFO 50: the collection of games from the fictional LX Systems console of…
- 868-HACK · 1 h 32 min(Hacker voice) I’m in. We’re pentesting the mainfraime this week with 868-HACK! A small-scope puzzle-y rogue-y game by one Michael Brough: multi award-nominated IGF game designer…
- Megabonk · 1 h 36 minIt’s not a bug, its a feature! This week we crack open the most meme-filled game of 2025 with Megabonk: the first game by (very likely) youtuber game developer Danidev in over 4…
