Forum:Roguelikes

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So, does anyone here play any other roguelikes? Outside of the realm of Nethack variants, I mean?

I like Dungeon Crawl, myself, but it's not nearly as balanced and polished as Nethack 343, in my opinion.

By the way, has anyone here ascended on Rogue or the BSD version of Hack?

JMarieStanton (talk) 01:50, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

I played ToME for a while, but never got very far. Tried to play ADOM, and it seemed like a great game, but I never got to the point where it sucked me in like nethack did.

Apart from nethack, I actually prefer to play roguelites like Dwarf Fortress, Spelunky or FTL.

--Dtarnish (talk) 19:58, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

I like any good roguelike I can get my hands on. I've beaten ToME a few times when it was Tolkein-based, but have yet to wrap my head around the new ToME. I do enjoy Angband itself, but is probably my least favorite and prefer variants more (the aforemewntioned ToME, Zangband, FAangband). I've beaten ADoM a handful of times and the gameplay can get incredibly exciting.

I tend to go through phases where for several months it will be NetHack/variants, ADoM, ToME, Crawl or Angband/variants. Right now, I am trying 3.6.0, taking a break from SLASH'EM. I have several characters in line (Archaeologist, Knight, Rogue) to ascend in SLASH'EM, but have yet to ascend in Vanilla. Am taking my time on those SLASH'EM characters as I do not want to screw them up.

I do agree with Crawl not being very balanced -- it sucks to have a rather promising character only to have be absolutely crushed by an out-of-depth monster.

I have been wanting to try Dwarf Fortress, but have yet to dive into it yet.

--User (talk) 21:01, 23 December 2015 (UTC)