Roguelike

A roguelike computer game is one that resembles Rogue. See Gameinfo:Roguelike.

The original Rogue game featured a thief who entered the dungeon to steal the Amulet of Yendor. A free clone called Hack retained the Amulet, but introduced some features including a pet dog and multiple roles (classes). The six roles in Hack are Tourist, Speleologist, Fighter, Knight, Cave-man, and Wizard.

The game NetHack has added several features to Hack, including both the Rogue class and the Rogue level.

List of roguelike games

• Rogue
  • Moria
    • Umoria
    • Angband
      • ZAngband
      • ToME: Troubles/Tales of Middle Earth
      • MAngband
  • Linley's Dungeon Crawl
  • NetHack
    • NetHack brass
    • SLASH'EM - Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack - Extended Magic
    • JNetHack - Japanese derivative of NetHack. The older version (based on NetHack 3.2.2) by Issei Numata is here. In addition, a beta version of JSLASH'EM is also available now.
    • Nethack en Español - NetHack translated into Spanish.
  • The Caves of Larn
    • Ultra Larn
  • Omega
  • ADOM: Ancient Domains Of Mystery
  • IVAN: Iter Vehemens ad Necem
  • Mysterious Dungeon - A long-running series of commercial roguelikes.
  • Dwarf Fortress

Though Diablo borrowed much from the roguelike genre, it is so pathetic that it is not a roguelike. But now it is...

And, see more accurate and detailed list on RogueBasin if you are interested.

Terms related 'Roguelike'

• vanilla
• variant
• patch