An annual event all about the procedural, grid-based dungeon-crawling world of roguelike games is returning this weekend. Roguelike Celebration 2025 consists of full schedules of talks from gamedev speakers on Saturday and Sunday that you can watch virtually, and a Steam event page showcasing featured games and sales.
I stitched together this full list of all the design talks happening today, starting just about an hour from when this article is live, at 9:00am PDT/12:00pm EST/6:00pm CET. This is just one of the two days worth of scheduled happenings (you can view the rest on the Celebration homepage) but even within the first day there are a lot of exciting names and subjects on the roster:
I'm particularly excited to hear Michael Brough's opening talk about the fantasy roots of the genre, and it's fun to recognize some speakers like Zeno Rogue from our own thinky community. (As a big boardgames guy it was also a lovely surprise to see that Cole Wehrle is participating, designer of such popular games as Root, Arcs, and John Company.)
You can watch the event live in a custom virtual hangout/social space that requires a ticket purchase with a suggested price of $30 going towards speakers, organizing costs etc, or you can watch the whole thing streamed live on the Roguelike Celebration YouTube channel, where many old talks from previous years' events have been uploaded individually. In September of this year there was a mini preview event with a few interesting talks you can watch there too.
Alongside the weekend's scheduled festivities there's a curated sale event running on Steam: the Roguelike Celebration Steam Sale features relevant games that are on discount, interesting stuff that's coming soon, and a bunch of games made by participants speaking at the event this year. Not every game is technically on sale, but it's a neat curated little window into what's currently happening in this genre niche.
You can get more details, buy a ticket or find all the links you're looking for on the Roguelike Celebration homepage.
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