If any one is interested in the genre, this OP should help you familiarize yourself with the genre a bit before jumping in.īut I wrote up this huge diatribe on Roguelikes and I thought some of you might be interested. If you're not familiar with Roguelikes, imagine a turn based Diablo with a lot more strategy and a lot more sandboxiness to it. They also traditionally use ASCII graphics, which basically means they are an eyesore and unplayable for most normal humans. Oh, also, most rogue likes are completely free!Īfter playing a fair bit of the excellent "100 Rogues" for Iphone, I have begun experimenting with the genre. 100 Rogues, for those interested, is a 'lite' roguelike.
Simple and arcadey, missing most of the 'simulation' elements I have observed in other examples of the genre. It also has really nice animations and graphics, the best of any rogue like I have seen by far.Ī screenshot of 100 rogues. As far as graphics and animations, this is the best Rogue-like I have seen. If you have an Iphone or Ipod touch, I highly recommend it both as a game and as an introduction to rogue likes. Even if you're not interested in the genre it's probably worth checking out just by virtue of its excellence. These are the impressions and thoughts I have gathered after about two days of messing with 'classic roguelikes.' To be clear, I am no expert on Rogue-likes, but this is intended to be a crash course on the basics of the genre for those interested. I am now an "unfuckable dork." which is pretty sweet! I think playing these games has increased my geek cred pretty substantially. I was always reticent to play these games because the ASCII graphics were such a turn off. Luckily there are now a variety of tile sets available for the major ones. The different roguelikes have different tilesets available, but here's a good example of what one looks like: Much friendlier to new players than the daunting ASCII symbols (and also more attractive.) These look pretty nice, still no animations or any thing, but overall they are very playable and attractive. This is the default tileset for Stone Soup (I hope they don't mind me hotlinking.)Īs far as I can tell, there are two major rogue likes which people still actually play. And of course, players of one distrust and revile players of the other. They both share the same basic goal, complete the dungeon and then make it back to the beginning. In either game, if you die once, it's over, the dungeons are huge and it is basically expected that you will die without completing the game. Beating either game is extremely rare even for seasoned veterans. Your decisions feel more weighty.īefore we get started here is a non-spoilery pro-tip for either game: I like this style of game a lot, if has the fun and interest of grinding up Diablo style, but there's no sense of "well this doesn't really matter because I am just grinding and I'll win eventually no matter what even if I die."Įvery potion, helmet, wand, belt, or whatever else you find is valuable (or useless) because it will help you descend further in to the dungeon.
If you get stuck and can't find where to go use the search command on walls and floors (especially ones close to blank space) for secret doors. Make sure the stairs down aren't hidden by an item on the ground as well.
Nethack is a dungeon crawler but it's also almost like a simulation. In addition to exploring the dungeon and killing monsters, you can also do.
just about any thing else.Ī screenshot of the 16-bit tile set in Nethack. There is also a 32-bit one which looks a fair bit nicer but I can't find a screen shot. There is also an isometric tileset view which looks very nice but in my experience is unplayable.
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