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I enjoy roguelikes very much. Sometimes I get these "seasons" when I absolutely must play a roguelike that I'm familiar with or start looking for new ones I have not tried.
They are a very likeable form of entertainment - as most of them are free, small, easy to obtain (as in download a meg or two), easy to learn but hard to master, demand very little computing power, run pretty much any operating system,
inherently contain a high amount of randomness (replayability, endlesness), lots of challenge and surprisingly many high quality roguelikes are still under active development. There are also graphical tiles available for almost every roguelike out there for those who are turned off by ASCII only visuals.
Before going any further, I'll throw in a couple of interesting links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike
Guide to Roguelike Games
http://users.tkk.fi/~eye/roguelike/
Temple of the Roguelike
http://www.roguetemple.com/
Roguebasin
http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
The best roguelike I have ever played is Ragnarok (aka Valhalla).
Originally a commercial game, the development was finished in 1995 and it was released as freeware. A magnificent game. Highly recommended. But sadly, it's only for Dos(box) and ceased development.
http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/ragnarok.htm
http://roguelikes.sauceforge.net/pub/ragnarok/
Another favourite of mine would be nethack. Everyone knows nethack so....
This time around I decided I'd try to get deeper into the pits of Angband, an old legendary roguelike with years of development behind it, a descendant of Umoria which in turn is a descendant of Moria.
Angband is still actively developed here:
http://rephial.org/
Any angband veterans here?
What do you guys think is the best roguelike out there?
They are a very likeable form of entertainment - as most of them are free, small, easy to obtain (as in download a meg or two), easy to learn but hard to master, demand very little computing power, run pretty much any operating system,
inherently contain a high amount of randomness (replayability, endlesness), lots of challenge and surprisingly many high quality roguelikes are still under active development. There are also graphical tiles available for almost every roguelike out there for those who are turned off by ASCII only visuals.
Before going any further, I'll throw in a couple of interesting links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike
Guide to Roguelike Games
http://users.tkk.fi/~eye/roguelike/
Temple of the Roguelike
http://www.roguetemple.com/
Roguebasin
http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
The best roguelike I have ever played is Ragnarok (aka Valhalla).
Originally a commercial game, the development was finished in 1995 and it was released as freeware. A magnificent game. Highly recommended. But sadly, it's only for Dos(box) and ceased development.
http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/ragnarok.htm
http://roguelikes.sauceforge.net/pub/ragnarok/
Another favourite of mine would be nethack. Everyone knows nethack so....
This time around I decided I'd try to get deeper into the pits of Angband, an old legendary roguelike with years of development behind it, a descendant of Umoria which in turn is a descendant of Moria.
Angband is still actively developed here:
http://rephial.org/
Any angband veterans here?
What do you guys think is the best roguelike out there?