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