Steam Next Fest is always a good place to find a new roguelike to suck up your free time, and this time around has proved no exception. I've already checked out Tears of Metal, and while Half Sword doesn't sell itself on being a part of the genre, its demo certainly fits the bill. But the clear winner so far in my mind is Slots & Daggers - a game I only discovered thanks to a roguelike I fell in love with in the last Next Fest.
That game was CloverPit, which is a slot machine twist on the Balatro format, and has been racking up hundreds of thousands of sales since its recent release. My obsession with that put Slots & Daggers on my radar, because while it's a very different kind of slot machine roguelike, it's still a slot machine roguelike, albeit with a fantasy twist.
