Roguelike video games

Roguelike video games
Basic Information
Type(s)	Terminology

Roguelike video games are characterized by turn-based dungeon-crawling gameplay and simplistic graphics, often drawing dungeons and their inhabitants using only ASCII characters. The term comes from the first game of the type, called Rogue.

A typical feature of roguelikes are that they are very unforgiving, and death lurks around every corner and is swift and violent. Very often they also do not allow you to reload a saved game. Once your character dies, death is permanent.

While most classic roguelikes are fantasy-based, often around Lord of the Rings or some other literary series, others are based on more exotic settings, like the DOOM Roguelike and Animeband, a variant of Angband with an anime theme.

The games

Rogue, ... Rogue (1980) Moria, Angband, ... Moria (1983 - 1987) Umoria BOSS Angband AlexAngband Angband/64 Angband a Animeband BAngband CathAngband CthAngband CyAngband Discband DrAngband DvEband Easyband Entroband EyAngband FAngband FAangband GilAngband Goingband GSN2band Gumband GW-band HellBand Hengband IngBand Ironband The Iron Hells KAmband KAngband LAngband MAngband MJband Multiband NewAngband NTAngband NPPAngband Oangband PosBand PsiAngband PziAngband QAngband Quickband RAngband Randomband Sangband SBFband sCthAngband Sillyband Steamband TAngband ToME TomeNET UnAngband Utumno XBAND ZAngband ZAngband a Zceband

Hack, NetHack, ... Hack (1984 - 1985) Quest NetHack (1987 - 2003) NetHack-- NetHack: The Next Generation NetHack Plus Slash SLASH'EM (1997 - 2006) NetHack brass SporkHack RevivedHack (2004 - 2007) Other games Omega (1988) Larn Ularn (1989) Ragnarok (1994 - 2000) ADOM (1996 - 2006) QHack (2000) Linley's Dungeon Crawl (1997 - 2005) Legerdemain (2003 - 2006) CastlevaniaRL (2005 - 2006) ChessRogue (2005 - 2007) CryptRL (2005 - 2006) DoomRL (2005 - 2006) Martin's Dungeon Bash (2005 - 2006) CaveRover (2006) GearHead (2006) MazeCrawl (2007) Rogue Hearts Dungeon (2007) San Muerte Survival (TBR 2013)

External Links

• Learn about development of roguelike games
  • Actively Developing Roguelikes
• BALROG (via web.archive.org) - Large chronological list of roguelikes.
• Wiki:
  • RogueBasin:Definition - What is a roguelike?
  • RogueBasin:Category:Roguelike games - Another large list of roguelikes
  • ToME:RogueLike - centric to ToME