Game: Roach Post
Genre: Roguelite, Puzzle
System: Steam (Windows or macOS)
Developer | Publisher: KARP GAMES
Controller Support: None
Price: US $12.99 | UK £10.99 | EU € 12,79
Release Date: February 17, 2026
Review code provided, with many thanks to Press Engine.
Roach Post is one of the cutest roguelite games I’ve played in a long time. In spite of the name, Roach Post is cartoony, beautiful, and features the world’s most adorable bug friends.
The Gameplay and Story of Roach Post
Roach Post is a roguelite about an abandoned post office that is being run by cockroaches. These cute little bug friends help you to lick stamps, put on postage, and raise your postage point levels high enough to ensure all the mail ends up where it needs to go.
To get your first package out the door, you need to put on one of the many oddly-shaped and colorful stamps on the package. In order to score more points, you will want to line up the colors that boost each other’s points, connect stamps of the same color together, and make sure to line them up in a way that you can fit as many stamps as possible on each box.
You have a pet roach named Mino, and he only has a limited number of licks he can give your stamps for each package. When he’s out of licks, you can no longer add new stamps or score more points.
Once you have completed the first package, you will have the option to buy new roach pets with powers to help you make even more points. They can boost the points of each stamp, give you extra points for synergizing the stamp colors, or even give you points for throwing stamps away. If you have three identical roaches of any type, they combine into a better version of that bug.
I was riding high from my last roguelite I played for LadiesGamers: the amazing Talystro demo. And seeing another cartoony roguelite on my list made me hope that it would be just as fun. Roach Post, however, has little in common with Talystro. Thankfully, that was a positive for the game.
Cartoony, Cute, and Filled With Adorable Bugs
Instead of focusing on combat as Slay the Spire and Talystro do, Roach Post is focused on mail in a way that makes it super family-friendly. The cartoony little roaches are so cute with their little outfits. It has bouncy music and adorable sound design. All the art is so cute; I hope that there is merch for this game in the future.
Roach Post is incredibly fun to play. Trying to fit weird-shaped postage on a box might not sound fun on the surface, but it is incredibly in-depth and challenging.
There are even different modes; you can play easy, normal, or hard in the beginning. I suggest starting with easy or normal, even if you are a roguelite expert, so you can learn the mechanics before diving in. After you defeat hard mode, it unlocks even more challenges for you.
The Cons of Roach Post
Overall, I adore everything about this game. There was only one thing I didn’t like about Roach Post: the tutorial. This is a complex roguelite with a lot of little symbols, synergies, and a lot of thinking required. The tutorial, however, is basically several walls of text you need to parse well in order to succeed at all.
I am a firm believer that all tutorials should be fully interactive; most people don’t learn well by reading alone. I think if the developers want to make the biggest impact, this would be it.
There were a couple of other little things I didn’t like, including the way that the bosses aren’t explained by the game very well and how at first Roach Post had the volume at zero, but none of them was really as bothersome as the tutorial.
Conclusion
I think if Roach Post added an interactive tutorial, it would basically be the perfect game. It’s addictive, cute, fun, and even the little bugs are so cute. I can’t stop playing Roach Post, and I am looking forward to any projects these developers get into in the future.
Final Verdict: I Like it a Lot
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