Roguelikes with focus on ranged combat?

[owen]

Hello,

Are there some good roguelikes, preferably with a sci-fi theme, in which you shoot at your enemies rather than clubbing them to death? I've seen X@COM, but I was looking for something where you just control one character, not an entire squad.

[lyeeedar]

Excuse my self promotion but thats exactly what my 7drl entry is https://lyeeedar.itch.io/quaestum-facere

[Paul Jeffries]

DoomRL seems like the obvious answer.

[Tilded]

There's Cogmind by the same guy who made X@COM.

[owen]

Thanks for the suggestions.

[Legend]

Infra Arcana and Slimy Lich Mummy are two very good roguelikes with a big focus on ranged combat as well. My favorites.

[flyingsandwich]

Xenomarine seems to fit the bill, definitely sci-fi focused. I've only played it for a couple of hours so far but there seems to be a good variety of ranged weapons and the ability to specialise in them.

(hope it's not incorrect to bump a thread from 2016...it's still on the first page of the forum. Am I looking at the right forum for traditional roguelikes?)

[Kyzrati]

Yup, Xenomarine would fit, as would Jupiter Hell, basically a successor to DoomRL which was mentioned earlier in the thread, but only came out just last year.

[Slash]

(hope it's not incorrect to bump a thread from 2016...it's still on the first page of the forum. Am I looking at the right forum for traditional roguelikes?)

Yup, it's ok to necromance threads, we need to revive discussion

[ekolis]

Do spells count as ranged combat? Because in my latest 7DRL, Found Magic (https://ekolis.itch.io/found-magic), melee attack is a last resort and the bulk of combat is done using spells.

[Turner]

I have the same question, will someone answer us?

[TitusGroen]

I have the same question, will someone answer us?

Jupiter Hell. It's almost exclusively ranged combat.

[mouser]

Hello,

Are there some good roguelikes, preferably with a sci-fi theme, in which you shoot at your enemies rather than clubbing them to death? I've seen X@COM, but I was looking for something where you just control one character, not an entire squad.

No Sci-fi themes, but in Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup it is viable to play characters speciallized in ranged combat. Just play a Halfling with a sling and there you go.

I know, probablky not what you were looking for.

[memmaker]

Necromancing a bit to start off

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