I’m curious about trying others though… like a quake rogue I heard about. Namely the manner in which item management is available. I’ve really only played Nethack (briefly) and ADOM (more extensively) at a first impression compared to ADOM’s intuitiveness, Nethack disappointed me. – Use a telnet client (yay PuTTY!) to connect to play online! :<Īnyone else into these sorts of games? (curse you ADOM) Have any stories (your ring of what did WHAT?) from them or need a question answered about one of (nethack) them? Here’s the place to post such, I guess. Now I can’t seem to get past the castle regularly.

I have somehow through luck managed I believe … 3? …ascensions, and stopped playing for some time. What makes it double (or at least somewhat, I was never good at math) more fun is the fact of playing “online” (albeit it’s still actually single player) at NAO. Of late, I’ve been on another NetHack kick, which is also my favorite roguelike of the ones I’ve tried. As you can see, these games tend t obe in ASCII graphics, though there are certainly tile/graphics versions of the games out there. The name of the genre comes from the 1980 game, Rogue.Ī few screenshots.

Many roguelikes employ the majority of the keyboard to facilitate interaction with items and the environment. Games are typically dungeon crawls, with many monsters, items, and environment features. The roguelike genre of computer games is characterized by randomization for replayability, permanent death, ASCII graphics, and turn-based movement.

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