Over the past several years, the popularity of the roguelike genre has increased exponentially. Games like Hades and Returnal may be what fans think of when they hear the term now, but several releases contributed to this modern popularity and implementation in multiple genres like platformers, like the original Rogue Legacy. It played its own role in popularizing the genre, and now in a couple of weeks, it will be getting a sequel in Rogue Legacy 2.