Peglin merges dungeon crawler rogue-lite with Peggle style gameplay.
Slay The Spire merges dungeon crawler rogue-lite with a deck builder card game.
Dicey Dungeon merges dungeon crawler rogue-lite with dice rolling.
I got stuck on a theme 😅
I feel like you would enjoy Slice and Dice. Similar to dicey dungeon, you are rolling dice, but instead of them being a classic d6, each side of the die is the hero’s abilities. You collect relics and get better heroes as you progress through the run. 8 bucks on Itch.io gets you both the mobile and desktop download. Also has a demo.
There’s a 2011 game called Before the Echo (previously called Sequence before the board game maker decided to get pissy about it) that’s a basic rhythm game but you play on a screen with three boards where rhythm arrows drop, and you have to manage swapping between all of them. One board you clear arrows to prevent enemy damage, one generates mana for you, and the third is where you cast spells (that do damage, heal you, etc). There are a few different items you can get and there’s some light crafting/leveling systems as well.
As someone who doesn’t usually play rhythm games (largely because I’m bad at them) it was pretty fun. The story is amusing as well, and the main critique I had was that it’s very slightly on the grindy side and there aren’t enough songs to support it, so you start hearing the same ones over and over. The music is decent but it can get a bit old.
The Typing of the Dead
Tomb of the Necrodancer is a rythm rogue like which is very unique, imo.
ICEY might be a good one to check out. It mixes cynical untrostworthy narration (like from the Stanley parable) with a 2D side scrolling hack and slash. some people say it doesn’t quite measure up on both fronts, but I enjoyed it. it has a nice art style too
