Taking the chance to plug my favorite: Heat Signature. It's by the same author as Gunpoint and is best described as "procedurally generated Hotline Miami in space".
Each "round"of action is typically 3 minutes or less so it is great for brief moments of free time.
I wish I could get into Heat Signature. I bought a copy, but somehow it's languishing in time spent compared to previous games like FTL and Into the Breach, I feel like it's a bit more frenetic in action compared to these (noted that it's a bit unfair to compare with Into the Breach and Jupiter Hell, which are turn-based)
Is there something I'm missing about the game play?
I love Heat Signature!!! Glad to run into a fellow fan.
I've followed the dev(s) since Gunpoint. But HS is probably gonna stay as my all time favorite of them.
I just love the depiction of space and how you're this tiny ship in the vast system. How your life is fickle.
I honestly never put it together that it was a roguelike until you mentioned it. I just enjoyed the hell out of it without even thinking of what genre it was.
I was actually pretty disappointed in Heat Signature. It really felt like at some (very quick) point progression in items tapered off and then everything was just kind-of-the-same.
Each "round"of action is typically 3 minutes or less so it is great for brief moments of free time.