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Each room is hand-designed but there are a great variety and repetition hasn’t become a problem for me after sixteen hours of play. The basic goal is to explore a castle, whose architecture shifts, and its equally unstable surroundings. Every death may be a drop of blood in the history of the quest but a character’s success, no matter how small, feeds back into the longer process. Like Spelunky, to which comparisons inevitably arise like mushrooms in a dedicated bachelor’s sock drawer, Rogue Legacy successfully combines short, randomised experiences with a larger challenge. As you travel toward a lonely demise, you will find treasure chests and scattered coinage, often hidden in torches, chairs or mushrooms, and every penny collected is available to your heir. However, this is a generational roguelike, or rogue-lite as the site brilliantly states. Rogue Legacy dispatches characters with a swiftness that puts the invention of Monsieur Guillotine and the efficiency of Amazon Prime to shame. It is a roguelike after all, and one of their primary functions is to destroy all that you hold dear, whether it’s a particular handsome paladinous progeny or a level 60 character who is on the verge of ascension. It’s no surprise that Rogue Legacy killed my entire family to date.

I could continue and I will, because this is compelling gaming, but I haven't won quite yet.

As I peeled my eyes from the window in which so many generations had perished, I vowed to remember my last and most valiant relation – a giant lich queen with a vampiric sword and a fear of chickens. I’m close to discovering all of the castle’s secrets and I’ve slain fearsome bosses, each taking me one step closer to victory, but my much-pruned family tree has been reduced to kindling.