How is this game a rogue-lite?

[Torx]

I thought that the idea of a rogue-lite is to preserve some kind of progress. Now I died a few times, and it seems that on death I lose everything.

[TMF_Forrest]

Anything in Aesop's bag is carried over if you choose continue after dying. We use the term rogue-lite because we have random generation & permadeath, but not turn based combat or tile based movement (which is apparently the full "roguelike" definition).

[Torx]

Ah, now I know what to look for. Thanks.

Originally posted by Stuckbug:

We use the term rogue-lite because we have random generation & permadeath, but not turn based combat or tile based movement (which is apparently the full "roguelike" definition).

Yeah, this game is more of a roguelite than a roguelike, or rather roguelike-like. If I remember correctly, then the original game called Rogue, also deleted the entire savegame altogether. So didn’t support progression at all.

FTL: Faster Than Light, is called a Roguelike-like. Apparently because there is no progression carry over, just like in the original Rogue. But also FTL isn’t completely turned-based and not even tiled based at all. And that’s the reason for the second “like”.

I wonder why they call Ziggurat a roguelite. Because I don’t think that character unlocks count as progression, since they’re not really helpful in Ziggurat.

[TMF_Forrest]

The problem with all these labels is that there's not a commonly understood meaning, so anything we chose would be inaccurate from certain points of view. I elected to go with what I felt was the right mix of understandable and technically correct... apologies if it led to confusion.

[Torx]

Originally posted by Stuckbug:

The problem with all these labels is that there's not a commonly understood meaning, so anything we chose would be inaccurate from certain points of view. I elected to go with what I felt was the right mix of understandable and technically correct... apologies if it led to confusion.

No, problem.

The thing with Aesop’s bag was, that I just thought that they are the girl’s random startup items. It didn’t occur to me that they are the dog’s carried over items, but moved over the girl’s bag.