Streets of Rogue is a wonderful top-down Deus Ex-like rogue-lite. Super fun.
Metagame progression is one dimension to compare these games along. Others are ‘required amount of skill’ and ‘required secret knowledge’. The best rogue-lites IMO train you in certain skills over time. Binding of Isaac is an example of a game that requires almost zero skill – it’s all about having the right secret knowledge, which you may pick up from playthroughs, but more likely will only get by watching streamers and looking stuff up in the wiki.
Spelunky requires a decent amount of skill, but you probably won’t be able to figure out its deepest secret by yourself without consulting another source of knowledge.