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Talented

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2024

Should you play it?

Slay waves of spooky enemies for 20 nights to survive 'The Demonic Conveyor Belt'. Talented is an arcade roguelite with randomly generated skill trees. Choose your upgrades and abilities wisely and you might just make it out alive. Are you truly Talented?

What works

  • Randomized skill trees with high replayability
  • Diverse classes with unique playstyles
  • Addictive and engaging build experimentation
  • Affordable price with great value
  • Active developer support and updates

Things to keep in mind

  • Lack of save mid-run feature
  • Some class balancing issues
  • Repetitive gameplay can occur over time
  • Limited narrative and environmental variety
  • Endless mode pacing can feel slow

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Cultivation Story: Reincarnation

  • Shattered Pixel Dungeon

  • The Doors of Trithius

  • Pinball Storm: Lokanta

  • 绯红编年史 ~ Chronicle of Scarlet ~

  • The Slormancer

More intense

Games that feels like Talented but with a more intense feel

  • Quasimorph

  • Rogue's Tale

  • In Celebration of Violence

  • ZERO Sievert

  • Sword of the Stars: The Pit

  • Revenge of the Titans

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Talented. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Talented. These titles are not in What to play next.

Talented: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Creativity. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026