Enter the Gungeon’s creators reflect on the roguelike genre’s existential crisis

Look to a recent anniversary to see that dynamic in action: Enter the Gungeon turned 10 years old earlier this month. That doesn’t sound all too shocking on paper; I clearly recall playing developer Dodge Roll’s bullet hell roguelike on my PlayStation 4 in an apartment I can still draw from memory. But as some of the minds behind the game expressed when we met over a video interview to reflect on one decade of sentient bullets, it was practically a lifetime ago.