I Tried Beating the 3 Most Popular Roguelikes in Under 1 Hour

[@thespectacularlymonochrome7891]

Finally, the long awaited oscar-worthy feature-length video about Skooch's likeness to Rogues

[@Skooch]

THIS GENRE IS THE GOAT! THE GOATTTTTTT!

[@AWildRaito]

This video surpasses the Oscar’s, it’s in a league of it’s own.

[@TrueKirb]

@@Skooch REAAAAAAAAAL

[@kristenhall3327]

The funny thing about this is that had the top 3 roguelites had been anything other than those 3 games, like say Darkest Dungeon this wouldnt have been possible. Straight up. Skooch was lucky from the very beginning.

[@noskalborg723]

@@Skooch this video was among the greatest about the greatest genre. you sir, are amazing. i picked you up with "can we talk about this" because my brother plays League of Legends and i DON'T. And while i don't support all of your beliefs, or appreciate everything you play, You have consistently been a solid choice to rival my appreciation of Hutts (he is good for different reasons, we love his tears of rage and laughter and game breaking luck). Thank you again for being an awesome high effort editor. And i feel your pain with the sucking at games thing. I also suck. But genius and grit wins out in the end. Gamers know how to do better, be better. And you are a true gamer 👍👌

[@trdl23]

Skooch, if you put Tight Deadline on via the Pact of Punishment, survival rooms in Hades don't ever spawn

[@escala8559]

But the video wouldn't have been so T i g h t

[@TheDahaka1]

Also the Attack speed Pact makes them spawn earlier or something XD

[@Ohmargod]

I've playing with Tight Deadline for so lomg, I didn't even remember that there were survival rooms.

[@omarijackson1034]

@Brother from another mother forgot the game existed without a timer 😂

[@mr24coja]

Also a nice way to get Isaac out of the way faster, is to run Maggy and play for sacrifice rooms to teleport straight to the Dark room, its possible to get sub 10 min with that

[@wrench542]

Seeing binding of issac in the thumbnail warmed my heart, especially since I’ve been getting into it recently. Super awesome skooch!!

[@Skooch]

Best game ever made. Enjoy the pain :,)

[@dudegal]

Isaac is an infinitely replayable treasure trove of secrets (especially if your playing the newest dlc) so I hope that if you're just getting into it the internet hasn't spoiled you to much :)

[@vexirion]

I have 600 hours in jt and i love it so much

[@silasnebulous4533]

I have dead god. Fuck this game.

[@YyhggYhg7gugugu]

Hope you don't have the same terrible expirience as me

[@halzou]

Theoretically, you could always play as Magdalene and capitalize on sacrifice rooms and get sent to the dark room. This would save you ALOT of time, but whether you survive or not is really depends on the first room item.

[@xTryst]

Yeah, beating the Dark Room with so little items can be a huge challenge, but if Isaac taking too long to beat was the barrier this is definitely the answer. You would have to get Maggie the full health pill first, and that’s not super easy either.

[@SufferingforSuccess]

​@@xTryst I know I'm late but Maggie always has that pill at the start.

[@rat2285]

@@SufferingforSuccess You have to unlock it

[@Cheese.-]

@@rat2285 its not a hard unlock, April Fools is an overall easy challenge

[@nicolasturetta7959]

First room item + free angel item + item in the Angel room*

[@stingrayy_9844]

another video essay combined with a mental breakdown and some cool games. already can tell its gonna be a banger

[@Crunchykills]

Watching it live was an actual blast. The binding of issac run is actually goated

[@valeriedure2341]

this is the most invested i've gotten in a video, the editing and hype was so strong

[@galgramax6713]

The fact that you skipped soy milk on Azazel 12:30 actually physically hurt me. It's so busted with brimstone! Alas, good job nonetheless. Edit: the ludovico and sacred heart obtained shortly afterwards made that entirely irrelevant. Nevermind!

[@person-ol5uf]

one tip i could give for this would before starting the run is to make sure you turn on tight deadlines from the pact of punishment as that gets rid of the survival floors

[@StevesTutorials]

I've got 1000 hours in binding of isaac and i've never had scooches synergy before. I assumed it would work the way it did because i've definitely had brimstone and homing before. However what scooch had was just nutty and the RNG gods indeed smiled upon him. Edit: Scooch also missed a side note with the negative and fighting isaac. He claimed it was just for damage (maybe it was and he didn't know the next part im about to say). However it also means isaac is your last boss. If you take the polaroid instead of the negative and fight isaac you'll get an entirely new floor to go to next instead of just finishing the game.

[@cureforboredom9719]

Pretty sure he just didn't want to deal with the chest and blue baby. without an emperor card it's a pretty huge time sink.

[@StevesTutorials]

@@cureforboredom9719 yeah that's what I'm saying. He didn't mention it but it's pretty important because its a way he saved time in the run.

[@trakemaker576]

How have u never had that snyergy before? Ive played tboi for like 800h and ive had that ludovico brimstone homing snyergy on sooo many runs, even not playing as azazel

[@StevesTutorials]

@@trakemaker576 Big part is probably because I don't like ludo. So i'd have to find brimstone first and then ludo. Then the chances of finding brim (at least in my games) are pretty slim. So the chances of first finding brim and then ludo are just slim pickings. Then on top of that i'm more of a angle room player anyways.

[@weapon-x]

@@StevesTutorials hahaha angle haha acute haha obtuse

[@neeko2818]

This was a blast to watch and my god what an achievement!!

[@jonathangillooly9361]

If you get lucky in a planetarium, you can get one of the best items for speedrunning the game, Mercurius. It gives a massive boost to speed and all doors that don’t require keys are open permanently, excluding the boss room. It lets you just ignore entire floors of enemies, and runs get extremely fast.

[@Defender99]

Skooch and rougelikes? What is this a crossover episode?

[@obeleace]

There was something similar like this a couple years ago called the rogue-like pentathlon with baertaffy and northernlion(no runs on youtube) which featured Spelunky HD, Hades, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Slay the Spire, and Dead Cells. Glad to see this idea spawn itself by in existence.

[@vexirion]

I love Spelunky

[@friendlyplayer92]

I think the NL one is here on the tube 8)

[@nimble3742]

This was such a blast to watch. Your Isaac RNG was actually crazy, never have a seen such luck in navigating the womb without a map. Kudos to you! And while not a game you can "speedrun" in the sense of these 3 games, I find Atomicrops to be a really fun experience that changes the formula up a bit. It makes multi-tasking really fun :)

[@NotSoB4]

absolutely incredible concept! the fact you defeated the binding of isaac in 12 minutes without it being a seeded run is insane btw. genuinely had to have been the best run of your live lol

[@theorochocz6735]

as a fan on isaac speedruns, this video almost made me go crazy. without this insane luck you'd never managed to complete, but i guess it's part of the game.

[@uriplayz8713]

I just got Vampire Survivors a week or two ago, I just got back into Isaac for the first time since October 2021, and I’m nearing 100% completion of Risk of Rain 2. I’m in my roguelike era prime and then this gem of a video gets recommended to me, the first I’ve seen from you. Absolutely fantastic achievement, a great watch and such great commentary! Thank you for the great content!! Subbed.

[@Ben-fi6ro]

God roguelikes are my favorite genre and seeing this just makes me wanna see more, if ever the roguelikes come up again on the channel i’d really reccomend skul the hero slayer, its genuinely so much fun with so much variety and possibilities

[@Tht_Guy]

I'm so incredibly happy he included Isaac ,I love that game ,it's si intense and funny sometimes ,and the feeling when you get an OP run is so gratifying ,and when you die it feels like a skill issue not a "bad game design issue".

[@abrupta]

That last statement isn't entirely true...

[@vinisart3647]

This man is a gamble/luck/roguelike LEGEND

[@Dipped1234]

You're lucky Gungeon didnt sneak into that top 3. Pretty sure that game takes at least half an hour to beat with amazing luck. Oh, and it's insanely difficult. A personal favorite of mine.

[@pigcowhybrid]

What an amazing journey, I thought it was over when you failed to get the satyr sack on the third room but you sure proved me wrong. My favorite roguelike is Dead Cells because it keeps getting so much new content and playstyles years after its initial release.

[@brettonalwood4173]

Holy crap that was thrilling to watch. Glad to see you expanding your stuff.

[@AWildRaito]

Hey Skooch, since you love Roguelikes so much, you should try playing Noita. It’s great, tough, and is basically Scandinavian Terraria but with three hundred times the pain of walking on Legos.

[@Imar13]

Ah yes, finnish arsonism simulator. Comes fresh with killing yourself without knowing what you did, killing yourself while knowing what you did and dying 20 hours into a run by 2 pixels of liquid

[@another1118]

i would like to watch that if he stream :D

[@dontspeak6372]

Brooooo... I hate that game lol... Hahahaha

[@tommylugaresi7431]

Great video, Skooch! Super entertaining! My favorite roguelike is FTL: faster than light. That game is just fantastic!

[@SGTArcAngel7]

Dude your style works so well for any game or discussion. I hope KZbin stops nuking your views with the current algorithm that says if you leave League content you're screwed.

[@Nicolator-rz5cm]

I was screaming at my screen as you didn't do the Maggy-sacrifice room to kill the lamb in under 10 minutes. but, you had A INSANELY GOATED RUN as an 10,000 hours of gameplayer of TBOI. also, that last dlc repentance really touched my heart.

[@lukyvod9940]

Okay you clearly don't know anything about isaac speedrunning 💀

[@Nicolator-rz5cm]

@@lukyvod9940 why tho?

[@Capopoi]

Nuclear Throne is one of my favorite rougelikes. It's been around for a while now but I always find myself going back to it.

[@nicolehamad3791]

My fiancé and I used to play LoL together, now we watch skooch videos together instead. its done wonders for our mental health. Thanks fam

[@Estt501]

That was really amazing. Just for info, the thanatos and time rooms don't appear when you got tight deadline in the pact of punishment. Also the rooms with the skulls usually save time. The enemys will be harder but there will be fewer.

[@sybrenvanmalderen]

I honestly enjoy the new course this channel went more than the League vids of old. This is a banger of huge proportions.

[@drakonb3153]

While at first I was a bit sad that skooch quit leauge, man, these past videos were sick. Keep up the great work.

[@BaronAzazel]

this was such a fun video!! I personally like rogue likes a lot, even tho I don't play too many different ones, I really like Isaac and Rogue Legacy, one of my favorite games of all time tbh

[@MrDevintcoleman]

Man, that Isaac run reminds me so much of my favorite episode from BdoubleO100 from like 7 years ago. It’s such satisfying synergy, I still watch it every once in a while!

[@CallMePikakip]

The Absolute Tragedy of the 5-sack killing runs is insane - But having a win in this category you've created with a 5-sack is actually insanity.

[@daniellourenco2651]

Btw the “homing item” he got in the Angel room after fighting mom is literally the best item in Rebirth, he didn’t even mention that it doubled your damage

[@daniellourenco2651]

Crazy lucky, as even the other item on the left was insane for speedrunning

[@MrMathews]

I want this to be a series. Stuff like this shows how good of a context creator Skooch is.

[@onlyonehere555]

This was awesome, I too am an enjoyer of roguelikes, my personal favorite being Slay the Spire. StS speedrun for the next video idea? I know it's been done before but I'd enjoy seeing it from you

[@Skooch]

I've played it before and it's fantastic but my brain is far too small to speedrun such a deep game LOL

[@onlyonehere555]

@@Skooch Fair, it does require not only RNG to get the cards you want for a deck you're trying to make but also playing a strat game like that as fast as possible would be so easy to destroy haha. Keep up the good work though!

[@XhanAnimations]

The drama, the tension, the outcome- 10/10 video Mr.Skooch 👌

[@team4star1]

To be fair, chess but every time you blink the pieces change sounds interesting enough for me to want to try it.

[@SKtasaras]

My first ever roguelike is a game called Curse of the Dead gods which I got a few months back on the ps plus free games and recently I started playing it again to actually complete it, it's an amazing experience! The theme of the game is about the MC entering and being locked in a cursed Aztecian temple where you have to fight your way through 3 different sections inside the temple all with their unique enemies, traps and enviroments, as you progress you get weapons that you can add to your collection and have a chance to get a random selection of those weapons for your next journey, to unlock the weapons and a lot of othee things in your base you need to use in game currency which is relatively easy to farm, and a few key things I forgot to mention, one of these is that you have a primary weapon, a secondary weapon and later on you can also get a third "heavy" weapon, basically your primary can be something like a sword to a mace to throwing knifes, your secondary can be a pistol to a shield or a whip and the third can be a huge warhammer, a bow or bombs for certain attacks for your combos you use a stamina point of which you have five of, your secondary and heavy weapons use a stamina point everytime you use them so you gotta be careful not to over do it since other than the offensive options you also have two defensive options one of them is dodging which requires a stamina point and can get you out of pretty much every situation and parrying which is much harder to do but can be even stronger that dodging if you learn how to do it and it doesn't require the use of stamina so you don't gotta worry about that, next thing is that whenever you finish a room you have to pass through a door and when you do that you get corrupted, when your corruption meter reaches 100% you become "Cursed" now the curses can range from a mild inconvenience to an actually helpful curse or to a game ending one, a few enemies also have special attacks which can corrupt you even faster if you're not careful, now on to the subject of enemies each section of the temple also has a boss all of which are entirely different from one another that you have to take a differenr approach with, practically there's 10 different bosses but the thing is that when you finish the first 3 levels of each section you unlock another 3 levels that contain the next 3 bosses but to get to them you have to play through the first 3 bosses respectively and then get to run through another section with harder enemies and more traps to get to the new bosses, same thing will happen again after you defeat these 3 and for the final room you gotta go through EVERYONE to get to the final boss, I haven't yet managed to do that but I'm trying! I am sorry if J dragged on too much or if I might confuse things here and there but I really wanted to share with you a game I find to be really great and if I happen to interest anyone reading my comment into trying out the game I am sure that you won't be disappointed! Cheers for another great video Skooch!

[@vinceb8123]

AMAZING vid skooch

[@TAZNOS]

14:14 bro got one of best items (left and middle items) in a 16% angel room what these items do: left one crown of light you will have 2x dmg until you will get hit (restarts every room) middle one sacred heart the best dmg multipllier in game 15:47 if you would picked satan with negative your run would have another floor which is called sheol and if you would picked polaroid and fight isaac you would have next floor called the chest (idk if he knew but it speed up his run for like 1-2 minutes)

[@sogekiishu]

I honestly love the new age of Skooch content, keep up the good work my guy!

[@theenderengineer1943]

I must say, the fact you did all of this is amazing. I don't think I could ever pull something like this myself. And the fact you got SO LUCKY is awesome. No matter what happens, sometimes RNG will smile upon you.

[@mentalpopcorn2304]

The build you ran for Isaac with controlled tears is my favorite build in the game, so damn fun

[@JohngoLoL]

wow great storytelling. I'm 8min in and don't mind that the run hasn't started yet this was really entertaining to watch, thank you

[@Sephiroxas]

Cultivation Story Reincarnation is a pretty fun Roguelite that recently came out of early access, has in my opinion one of if not the largest diversity in roguelites out right now in terms of build variety and replayability, ontop of it having a load of things to unlock, the developer constantly updating the game and there being a really tough endgame. Its basically a cultivation version of Isaac or Hades. Just with builds that have so much more potential to be gamebreakingingly strong. Overall amazing game in my opinion

[@Kezzbo]

14:20 got me excited as an isaac player, item on left is double damage (great item) then the middle being the probably the strongest item in the game and can instantly turn runs around

[@BoCore]

Man Im so happy to see you do other games, games you like, the passion and the effort seeps through - was great to watch - keep up the good work Skooch!

[@SebandMima]

You are the Person that makes my day when i come home after a lonely day, I damn have to laugh at your videos too much, I love u.

[@eenpersoonrandomnes6444]

Skooch my mans, you are such a chad-legend-gamer congrats on the biggest gaming W 2023!

[@inuyasha54325]

That final Hades fight had Skooch playing out of his mind! That was amazing to watch and you truly are a gamer among gamers

[@jcraa91]

literally yelling at my pc out of excitement, WELL DONE SKOOCH!!!!!!

[@mrsnail8664]

There are levels on Vampire Survivors that only last 15 min, 7:30 in hurry mode so you could save a lot of time there, also you can exploit sac rooms in issac or reset as eden until you get a broken item to save a ton of time

[@jakeflowers4355]

I would highly recommend trying Noita if you haven't already. I am a major fan of roguelikes and have recently been loving the hell out of Noita. Nice job on the runs! :D

[@2ddude492]

There is a relatively new roguelike game that noone really talk about but in my opinion is a hidden gem,game called Revita,as a quite experienced roguelike player I highly recommend you to try that one,best of luck

[@MrMonkeyLogic]

Skootch you glorious bastard that video was incredibly exciting to watch! This new video direction is wonderful and our boy is really shining.

[@austin_mizukage5833]

I love how every time he says it's a mouthful or a little complicated for me to explain it's neither of those things and it just forces you to pause the video and read for no reason when he could have just explained it

[@sneaky6820]

What’s the name of the game played in 01:29? Right before EtG

[@blu3fire105]

struggling with azazel is actually painful to watch

[@senerio2124]

In binding of isaac, the first run of a new file ends at beating mom’s heart, which counts as a w in my book

[@piern1k336]

There is nice speedrun strat for isaac I like to call single triple eternal maggie strat, which is basically to press r on first room while playing eden, and when you get brimm/sacred heart/spirit sword/tech AND an sacrifice room, you connect two maggies and sacrifice them to the spikes, this gives you potentially two angel items and teleport to the last level

[@Ravenjim93]

Just a lil thing you forgot that could have saved a lot of time in Vampire Survivor, there are a couple maps, Moonglow as an example, that only last 15 minutes instead of 30 that most do.

[@GuiltySoul73]

I really enjoyed the video, I feel like I was holding my breath when I watch this lol was sitting on the edge of my seat at the end, so happy that you did in in under one hour! Impressive stuff you did there, well done!

[@BaronDeGunther]

the RNG gods helped until the end with those extra rooms in hades so the video could be EXTRA SPICY

[@siegdarklyon1900]

The skooch entertainment multiplier keeps going up and i am loving it. Keep up the good work man!

[@RelyksLegacy]

You're absolutely insane and RNGesus was definitely by your side, GGs Skooch, GGs

[@inf4mouscl4p11]

MY FAVOURITE KZbin AND HIS TRIUMPHANT RETURN

[@viktorz494]

I'm so happy that you *almost* figured out the merciful end build lol

[@Jombie4001]

Great video, one of my favorite roguelikes to play (specifically with a friend) is death road to canada. A lot of goofy fun.

[@gavinrollot6426]

For isaac, Tainted Lilth is by far the strongest character. I beat the game with her in under 20 minutes. You could also just go to the dark room with Magdalene and hope for some good items. However, clearing the dark room with only 5 items, even with 3 level 4 items, is really hard.

[@SuperExplosivegames]

You're killin me with pure content right into my veins

[@WPLoLH]

Yo Skooch. This made me feel super proud of your accomplishment. Everything was wild!! Good stuff!!

[@Knurlurzhad]

Skooch's gaming levels are off the charts Also you should play Risk of Rain

[@RikuMatsuoSF9]

Yoooo, you actually have done it! Congratz man! It's so tight, scuffed, and perfect at the same time!

[@christophermarshall9079]

Rogues are also my favourite genre, more games of this genre PLEASE

[@jolteon0313]

I love roguelikes too! this was awesome, I would've went with merciful end as well. I have sunk so many hours into isaac and now Hades recently. GG dude

[@paolosavino22]

In Hades if you use Heat and put at least one point in Tight Deadline you can't get the time room in the first biome saving a lot of time. There are also other things in Hades that you can do with heat to speed up the game but require a lot of skill and make the game more difficoult

[@ronpaz9655]

how is it even possible that every single video you put out in an absolute banger ?

[@RebelPhoenix117]

I recently found a roguelike called Vagante and have been having a ton of fun with it! Would love seeing it get more attention!

[@alexvandermeij2776]

This was a blast to watch, i like this different from usual style of content quite a lot!

[@janodino]

u forgot that with magi (isaac) if you R until you get a sac room spawn, you can play it until u get dark room TP and win from there. I just did it myself and got a 5 minute victory lol. Only took me 10 R's. Nice vid tho skooch :)

[@poisonedoak6563]

My favorite Roguelikes are STS, ETG (the first one not the mobile game) and RoR2. Honorable mentions for the Roguelike Mod for Stardew.

[@alexcat6685]

3:53 I see your brain proccess going through all of this, as your facecam basically sums up how you we're at that time.

[@MassisKharne]

Honestly, I'm just inspired enough that I want to do some stuff like this! I love roguelikes so I kinda wanna give it my own college try! Also, I think the most important thing I learned in this so far was that Yakko apparently plays FFXIV. Dope.

[@ry2950]

This video alone earned a subscription. Massive respect.

[@SaiKisaragi]

Honestly, this just makes me want to play some rougelikes. Thank you Scootch.

[@rody8376]

I remember the time you played binding of isaac back in the days it was pretty cool. I wish you'd do playthroughs of games fully like you did before with undertale and stuff like that. The editing is cool and all but sometimes all you need is some raw unedited footage. Thumbs up my guy this was a cool ass video

[@Poppybe]

I really love this roguelike called wizard of legend. It has a lot of spells that you can equip so it's very customizable to what you desire

[@k1ngn3r]

I would really love to see skooch made a series of TBOI/Hades videos tbh, like a playthrough or something

[@Syceroe]

Holy crap nice job this was the most intense and fun video I've watched in a while, keep it up!

[@julimayor]

Just when I get back into Hades to get all the achievements you upload this video. Great timing... and also great video. Might check out Binding of Isaac since I never played it and also might as well play vampire survivors as it looks pretty fun.

[@togglinho]

the video really got me invested in the story!! great storytelling

[@notmj4170]

Nice video Skooch, by far the best League of Legends content on KZbin 👍🏻

[@RevoltFeed]

This is SO MUCH BETTER THAN LEAGUE YOU CAN'T IMAGINE fucking glorious video

[@Pynot]

Quality content... I SAID QUALITY CONTENT, thanks Skooch ! :D

[@aarushsaraswat6710]

Absolutely crazy. Awesome video!

[@oscarsoria1205]

Man, that comittement really paid up. This was awesome