one question that is kind of offtopic: how will you handle the multiplayer part as most roguelikes are turn based?

What I dislike about roguelikes would mainly be the lack of nice art, the lack of story, and the permadeath with no game+ feature. The only roguelike I really like is Azure Dreams (PS1) because it had nice art, a home base town to level up, and when you died in the dungeon you just ended up in the home base with no loot, you didn't have to utterly start over. There was even an actual end to the story.

Well, my game isn't doing much in the graphics department, it has pixel art around nes/atari resolution but with more colors and hopefully, they're more readable and attractive. I think I remember you saying you don't like pixel art, but I love it and high quality 3D models are out of my ability.

I'd like to have something like a procedural quest generator, but something like that might have to wait for after release.

I like having a little direction also.

I don't really like perma death either, I don't think I'll have it in, but I would like to have a death penalty. I don't know about losing loot since in my game you won't be able to carry a lot. For gear you only have whatever is equipped, and have to make a choice to pickup a gear piece and leave the other behind or not, of the same slot. I could have experience loss or something.

It's true that I dislike pixel art, you have a good memory. I don't have any problem with 2D art, but it has to be fairly high-res, whether vector or anime raster or what. But, I'm not a fan of roguelikes in general, so it probably doesn't actually matter what I like. One thing though, have you played Rogue Legacy? I've gotten 3 recommendations that I should play that in the past year alone, so it's probably something worth looking into in the field of rogue-likes.

I don't really play roguelikes, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt: some of the following may be less issues in roguelikes than a mismatch between what roguelikes offer and what I enjoy. That said:

The main thing that I dislike in roguelikes, I think, is the repetition: that the game seems to be built around the idea that the player will go through the various dungeons over and over again. For me, that can get rather boring, even if the levels are randomly generated.

I'm also not a fan of being at the mercy of the game's random number generator: I don't want the success of a run to depend on whether or not I get good loot, or whether I roll well on my attacks. Building on that, I really don't like combat that's based heavily on random numbers: I really, really don't like being told that I missed simply because the random number generator said so.

One point that isn't my own, but that might be worth repeating, is something that I recall TotalBiscuit bringing up in some of his reviews: roguelikes tend to have rather shallow combat mechanics, and on top of that tend to provide static bonuses far more than active abilities (the latter of which tend to provide more decisions for the player by providing more versatility).

In fact, it might be worth going to TotalBiscuit's channel and looking up reviews of some recent roguelikes and rogue-lites: I seem to recall that he gives a fair bit of detail in his thoughts on a given game. Risk of Rain in particular (if I'm remembering the right game) might be a good one to look at, since I think that I recall that he quite liked that one.

It's true that I dislike pixel art, you have a good memory. I don't have any problem with 2D art, but it has to be fairly high-res, whether vector or anime raster or what. But, I'm not a fan of roguelikes in general, so it probably doesn't actually matter what I like. One thing though, have you played Rogue Legacy? I've gotten 3 recommendations that I should play that in the past year alone, so it's probably something worth looking into in the field of rogue-likes.

I like 2D Vector art too, but Unity doesn't support it natively, and I'm not really up to learning some third party plugin atm, and plus, I've been slaving away today on some animations :P

I might check out Rogue Legacy, I've seen it on steam but havn't been too inclined to get it.

I don't really play roguelikes, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt: some of the following may be less issues in roguelikes than a mismatch between what roguelikes offer and what I enjoy. That said:

The main thing that I dislike in roguelikes, I think, is the repetition: that the game seems to be built around the idea that the player will go through the various dungeons over and over again. For me, that can get rather boring, even if the levels are randomly generated.

I'm also not a fan of being at the mercy of the game's random number generator: I don't want the success of a run to depend on whether or not I get good loot, or whether I roll well on my attacks. Building on that, I really don't like combat that's based heavily on random numbers: I really, really don't like being told that I missed simply because the random number generator said so.

One point that isn't my own, but that might be worth repeating, is something that I recall TotalBiscuit bringing up in some of his reviews: roguelikes tend to have rather shallow combat mechanics, and on top of that tend to provide static bonuses far more than active abilities (the latter of which tend to provide more decisions for the player by providing more versatility).

In fact, it might be worth going to TotalBiscuit's channel and looking up reviews of some recent roguelikes and rogue-lites: I seem to recall that he gives a fair bit of detail in his thoughts on a given game. Risk of Rain in particular (if I'm remembering the right game) might be a good one to look at, since I think that I recall that he quite liked that one.

I like having some luck involved gameplay, but I think the trick is finding the right balance of it. Like if you get a bad roll, you have increased chance of a good roll for the next one or two.

I agree that a succession of misses or fails is frusterating though, enough to make a rare string of good rolls to not be enough to balance it out.