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
      • ...and so many other Angband variants
  • Linley's Dungeon Crawl
    • Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
  • Hack
    • NetHack
      • SLASH'EM - Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack - Extended Magic
      • SporkHack
      • NetHack brass
      • JNetHack - Japanese derivative of NetHack. The older version (based on NetHack 3.2.2) by Issei Numata is here. In addition, beta versions of JSLASH'EM are 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 (Adventure Mode)
  • POWDER

Diablo features many aspects of roguelikes, but was shaped for a mass market. It can be considered a commercial roguelike.

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

Terms related 'Roguelike'

• vanilla
• variant
• patch