Mewgenics might have surpassed Hades 2 as the most-played roguelike on Steam, but co-creator Edmund McMillen says that the entire genre used to be the reserve of "the nerdiest of nerds" before he helped contribute to its modern popularity.
Speaking to GamesRadar+, McMillen, who created The Binding of Isaac back in 2011, says that the developer of another iconic roguelike helped put him onto the genre: "I'm pretty sure Derek [Yu], before he made Spelunky [...], was writing a lot about traditional roguelikes." McMillen says he was "somewhat familiar" with a handful of text-based or ASCII-art roguelikes, but it was Yu's recommendation of 1997's Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup that really made him fall in love with the genre.
