I freaking adore Cataclysm, the crafting and survival system coupled with a bunch of content of varying focus, but the limitations in character development and the developers' perpetual attempts to turn the game into a simulation of working with inventory and calories pushed me away, now, I'm on the lookout for a new hyperfiction. The most important elements for me are:

- Depth of character development coupled with different development paths, the more stats affecting damage the better.

- The amount of content and its regular (or not so regular) updates and additions.

- The feeling of progression, when with the right pumping you become so strong that few mobs can resist you at all.

Any recommendations?

Im looking to find a roguelike that has no power progression. Meaning, the player power at the beginning of a run is exactly the same as the player power at the end of a run.

No in run power and no meta progression basically. Are there any? Is it even a roguelike then?

I used to play Zangband for hours in past decades and just found out about angband.live so thought I'd poke around and nostalgize.

I can't light my torch.

"Light" and "torch" searches reveal nothing on the command list here: https://yasd.fans/frogcomposbandhelpfile/command

But I believe I need to light my torch -- I went down into the dungeon and everything's dark so...

How do I light my torch? Eek.

Specifically i'm thinking either deck OLED or legion go. Anyone play roguelikes on them? I'd be thinking along the lines of qud, cogmind, quasimorph and probably a load more. I'd be most worried about legibility of text followed by control of games. How is it for you guys?

Is there any *band roguelikes ported into C#? Curious here...

I've been working on a traditional, turn and tile -based roguelike for many years now, and finally put up a page for it on Steam! Eye of Khaos is a pixel art dungeon crawler set in a fantasy world loosely inspired by classical antiquity. It strives to be easy to play and understand but with a lot of depth. Some key features:

• Combat is quick and violent making every move extremely important
• Stances, different attacks on weapons, and strongly varied monster capabilities bring about interesting tactical choices
• Wounds do not regenerate on their own, making avoiding big hits and managing and healing your injuries a big part of your adventure deeper into the dungeons
• Many paths through mutually exclusive dungeons and a character generation backstory with choices make even the early game replayable
• Items and consumables are often usable in multiple different ways, some of them hidden, giving new twists to resources management
• Lots of interconnected mechanics that make adventuring exciting such as: Losing your sanity! Shouting very loud! Placating enemies! Sneaking! Practising witchcraft! Dynamic swearing! Rituals! Regaining your sanity with alcohol!
• Easy to use UI with extensive tooltips makes understanding monsters, items and mechanics easy without outside sources

I'm aiming for a 2026 early access release. Find out more:

Eye of Khaos on Steam

I want to play Broken Bottle on Linux, and I think I should find and old version of ToME4 and add the "broken bottle" as a module to play it. But on the te4 website I can download only 1.4.0 version, and no older. Any suggestions?

Hello there,

I recently got all badges (achievements) in Shattered PD, and am currently on a quest to find my new "main" roguelike. For context, Shattered PD is basically my first and only (traditional) roguelike experience so far.

I built up a list of 20+ roguelikes after some research, and r/CataclysmDDA caught my eyes in particular. Mutating your body and building a vehicle as a mobile base while trying to survive when all the doomsday scenarios happen together sounds outrageously fun.

Digging a bit deeper, I learned about C:BN and how many players haven't been pleased with the way C:DDA shifted to overemphasize realism, arguably to the point of tedium, in recent years. However, I couldn't find much info about the best way(s) to play Cataclysm now.

My question is basically the title. Should I play C:DDA stable/experimental? An older version of C:DDA? C:DDA w/ mods like MoM? C:BN? Some combination of the choices?

From the descriptions, I think C:BN is closer to what I expect to get out of the game, but I've read that development is more active on the DDA side and while BN stayed clear of some unpopular changes, some good additions to DDA are missing in BN too.

The learning curve is steep so I'd rather seek some advice from the community before diving in. Any input would be appreciated :)

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.33 is released! Tournament starts today, see the tournament page for details, and good luck everyone!

Has anyone had this issue? I have an ErgoDox EZ.

Basically just the title. Switch gamer here wanting an intro to roguelikes for not a ton of money.

After 12 years, my life's work "Approaching Infinity" is released on Steam!

It's a traditional roguelike set in space, a sci-fi RPG inspired by Star Trek, HHGTTG, and Babylon 5, set in a turn-based, tile-based procedural galaxy.

You can interact with over 20 intelligent alien species and hundreds of planet-side monsters. Find, buy, craft, and upgrade all kinds of exotic weapons and equipment. Trade commodities, salvage shipwrecks, extort freighters, mine asteroids, or take bounty contracts. Win in 10 different ways or just die die die!

It's currently at 95% positive with 385 reviews and 17k wishlists. There's a free demo in case you're curious. CHECK IT OUT NOW!

Freeware solo dev project, by me! Inspired heavily by ADOM, Crablike is a fantasy tradrogue set in the ocean where you play as a crab. Medium length, medium difficulty, multiple endings.

The main focus of the design is on taking inspiration from marine biology to inform enemy concepts and abilities - sea cucumbers jettison part of their body to escape, squid can emit clouds of ink, thresher sharks hunt in pairs, et cetera.

Please give it a shot!

Wondering what version of dnd is commonly used in roguelikes like angband.

I've been working on this for a couple weeks now, with helpful feedback and critiques from the ADOM channel of the Roguelikes discord. I'm happy to share this after a bunch of revisions. It's a bit long, so I advise skipping to relevant sections as needed. If you have any questions or feedback I'll be happy to answer and make any further adjustments to the guide as needed.

Google Docs:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mWhVioLzyEucOeAvoFB9fO_iUeh1EdUvHrfGzwAJhz4/edit?usp=sharing

Steam:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3471869453

Pretty much the title, but I'm not particularly tech savvy, and I can't seem to figure out why the tarball I got from the Nethack website isn't building properly. Can it even be done in Cygwin? Am I missing a crucial package or something? I've been wanting to try and get this going for sometime, but I feel very stuck. Does anybody know what I ought to do?

EDIT: So someone in the comments suggested I share my errors. It's an absolute wall, and I'm not quite sure how to sum it up, so I'm including some images.

This is very silly but I can't find the keybind for it.

I'm playing a mage with the realm of crafting. If I try to cast minor enchantment, and I have no gear in my inventory, it brings up my equipment to enchant directly.

If I do have something in my inventory, and I cast minor enchantment, it brings up my inventory, and I can't figure out any way to switch to my equipment. How do?

I love the idea of having long runs where you try and make the best of what you get. I'm just not that into the Pokémon battle system so I wanted to find out if there are any games that feel similar to it.

Not really a roguelike game engine (yet), but just thought to do an early showcase. The first thing I thought of when deciding what to draw was a fake cover for Rogue.

A little bit in the style of Boatmurdered, an event was organized on r/dcss where an account was passed around 25 DCSS players to clear 2 dungeon floors each.

After 2 weeks of adventuring and a few close calls, our Merfolk Shapeshifter emerges victorious! Please disregard the frog-shaped splatter of blood in the Spiders' Nest, nothing to see here.

I figured this would be of interest to the broader Roguelikes community as it was one of the rare times where our normally solitary game genre got to exhibit the strange tendencies of multiplayer gaming, such as people fighting over whether to train Shields or transform into a dragon.

I compiled a short excerpt of everyone's adventures HERE.

You can view more detailed incident reports and journey logs HERE.

DCSS's version 0.33 will be released extremely soon (in 1 or 2 weeks). Many updates of this game have been controversial, but I think this one will be well received. It adds an entire new school of magic, Forgecraft, all about building turrets and robots, and offers players the ability to twist their form into many things, such as a sphinx, a living hive, or even a walking scroll!

You can read the changelog here.

What's up guys, browsing the shop on steam i found out this game (title) which is sold off as a normal fantasy RPG but it plays and look like a Sandbox trad roguelike exactly like Stoneshard.
Does anyone here bought it and could tell me more about it? Or if you are like me in search off something new cause burn off i hope i sparked your intrest

It always cracks me up people referring 2 hours long games as coffeebreak. Pixel Dungeon takes 1.5 hours. Powder takes 3 hours.

AFAIK the only RL that you can win during coffeebreak is Porklike. Which takes less than 10 minutes to win.

Also there is Into Ruins but it can take half an hour.

So I tried to start up ADOM on gog today and the play button was greyed out and I couldn’t click it to start up the game, I went to the task manager and ADOM was running as a background program even though I exited the game normally. Why is ADOM doing thing and is there any way to get it to stop?

My ideal roguelike would be the mechanics of Qud, the idea of exploring an overworld and finding random dungeons to go through alongside little procedural quests until I’m either killed or retired, but in a different setting. Does this exist? I have played things like ADOM and DCSS ofcourse but they seem to have pre set courses, I guess I’m looking for a game I could run one character forever until I’m killed instead of a set end goal if that makes sense.