What, in your opinion are the top 5 roguelikes ever released? They have to at least be playable on PC without much tinkering(so no games made in the 80's or something) I've been interested in the premise of these games(huge open world, permadeath, etc) but have never played one in my life. Mostly because the ones I know are so damn old they won't even run on modern PC's. So what are the best roguelikes ever created gaf?
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As of recent these all are pretty great.
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soxinthebox
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Diablo 1 and Binding of Isaac are my picks
Yeah, Dredmor is hilariously fun. Best character building ever.
FTL is a little dryer at first, but I think it's core gameplay is one of the most solid things around. I would like to see an improved sequal.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup has pretty ancient roots, but it's smartly designed, well balanced, still receives updates, and has been modernized very nicely overall. It has a simple but functional graphical version that lets you play it as a primarily mouse-driven game if you want, while still having traditional keyboard controls and a terminal mode if you want a taste of oldschool.
Also, among the features listed in the OP, "open world" is probably the least common among Roguelikes. Most let you traverse the dungeon freely, but the genre is still generally focused around enclosed areas that are separated into floors. ADOM is a notable open-world Roguelike, though I'm not sure if there's any version of it you'd find palatable.
Also, among the features listed in the OP, "open world" is probably the least common among Roguelikes. Most let you traverse the dungeon freely, but the genre is still generally focused around enclosed areas that are separated into floors. ADOM is a notable open-world Roguelike, though I'm not sure if there's any version of it you'd find palatable.
Same here. I think they're probably made bank by now...I'd like to some improved asset quality (some non-aliased borders around the ships would be a bare minimum). Moddability (user-made ships and layouts). 1080p support. etc
Binding of Isaac!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/113200/
Its cheap, its fun, and it has near infinite replayability.
The game looks similar to the top down legend of zeldas. It drops you in a 'dungeon' and you have to progress floor by floor.
Each floor is completely random, with different room types enemies, bosses, and items available.
Great game.
I think FTL has a pretty heavy modding community already.
I remember reading about some of them, but never installed any. Might be worth checking out.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/113200/
Its cheap, its fun, and it has near infinite replayability.
The game looks similar to the top down legend of zeldas. It drops you in a 'dungeon' and you have to progress floor by floor.
Each floor is completely random, with different room types enemies, bosses, and items available.
Great game.
I think FTL has a pretty heavy modding community already.
I remember reading about some of them, but never installed any. Might be worth checking out.
Shadow Hog
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To be specific, I assume he means DoomRL, and not Doom itself (which is a FPS, not a rougelike).
Available in both retro ASCII or snazzy sprited versions! It's pretty fun.
BrokenEchelon
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Beat me to it, including that glorious emacs comment.
+1 to all three of those games. They're great.
Heh, couldn't resist. I mean, I can kind of understand where they're coming from -- if you've used those types of command line apps from an early age, then it would seem more efficient to use complex keyboard shortcuts. Me, I have far better/faster manual dexterity with a mouse than I have memory for remembering shortcuts. I never fail to get complaints whenever someone needs to use my computer to show me something and they have to use my high sensitivity gaming mouse. "your mouse...here you take it, I can't use this". And I've been guilty of secretly changing people's mouse acceleration settings to maximum if I need to use their computer. If I had to use my mouse that way, I would consider GUIs slow as well...
UnReal World is a piece of Finnish shareware first released in 1992.
And yeah, FTL is a strategy/space sim where you manage a ship, though there are a lot of roguelike elements like randomization, heavy replayability, and permadeath. Binding of Issac and Teleglitch, two other games mentioned, also aren't traditional roguelikes by virtue of being real time rather than turn based.
BlackLagoon
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Sure. And Binding of Isaac is Legend of Zelda with poop. But roguelike apparently means any game that's a kinda hard and has some degree of randomization now, and anyone who thinks it means turn based dungeon crawler is an old coot... :/
keeblerdrow
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The only roguelike I've ever liked on PC is FTL: Faster Than Light.
I mostly play them on consoles, The Nightmare of Druaga: Fushinigo Dungeon for Playstation 2 being my favorite.
I mostly play them on consoles, The Nightmare of Druaga: Fushinigo Dungeon for Playstation 2 being my favorite.
Triangle Wizard: http://trianglewizard.webs.com/
A simple yet deep and feature packed roguelike that has the controls of a twin stick shooter. It's fantastic and the creator has been adding to it for literally years. I can't even tell you how many major features he's added since I first found the game so long ago.
Oh, and it's free. Check it out.
A simple yet deep and feature packed roguelike that has the controls of a twin stick shooter. It's fantastic and the creator has been adding to it for literally years. I can't even tell you how many major features he's added since I first found the game so long ago.
Oh, and it's free. Check it out.
Alex Connolly
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I'm really enjoying Sword of the Stars: The Pit at the moment. Kinda telling that this is how they follow up on the abortive tragedy that was SotS2: Lords of Winter. Unlike that ungainly thing, this is tight and uses the SotS universe nicely.
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Considering you have a TD2192 avatar, you probably are an old coot
Oh I thought roguelikes were generally realtime? I have clearly based all my assumptions on roguelike games with Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall.
Shadow Hog
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I thought it was a turn-based affair with permadeath on at all times. Does this make me an old coot, despite how I've barely played any entry in the entire genre (beyond some DoomRL)?
I always assumed roguelikes were games with permadeath where you tried to make it as far as you could with the [randomized] gear the game gave you that run. I feel like roguelikes have a dependency on both luck and skill.
- I don't consider modern Diablo-clones roguelikes since there is no permadeath, nor the sense of tension that comes along with it.
- I don't consider Spiderweb Software games roguelikes since, while they're turn-based old-school RPGs, they don't have permadeath either, and they're a bit quest-focused.
- I don't consider modern Diablo-clones roguelikes since there is no permadeath, nor the sense of tension that comes along with it.
- I don't consider Spiderweb Software games roguelikes since, while they're turn-based old-school RPGs, they don't have permadeath either, and they're a bit quest-focused.
Daggerfall has more in common with the Ultima and Might and Magic series than roguelikes. RogueBasin has a pretty good rundown of what makes a Roguelike here.
Since the original Rogue (hence Rogue-like) was turn based, everything real time would just be an hectic action game
As for op, DoomRL and most Chunsoft(yeah consoles) would be my preferences.
EDIT: And of course, how could I forget Fatal Labyrinth for MegaDrive, really simple, but still fun even after all those years but that would be console again.
I don't know...those restrictions seem more like they were born more out of technological limitations than intentional gameplay considerations.
Nethack.
No cost.
No tiles. No Number Pad.
It's among the Top 10 Best Games of All Time.
I've never ascended. Maybe some day.
No cost.
No tiles. No Number Pad.
It's among the Top 10 Best Games of All Time.
I've never ascended. Maybe some day.
The first time I used VI on a UNIX terminal (in like 1995 or so) I was amazed that the cursor movement was just like in Nethack.
D3RANG3D
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Tales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mKpYy-pwRfM
http://te4.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mKpYy-pwRfM
http://te4.org/
Lactose_Intolerant
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Stone Soup is my favorite. Plus its fun if you go on the irc channel and play with everyone. You can watch people have epic fails or the crazy good people fly right through the game.
The User Interface bullet points are a bit silly, but I'd say the rest are dead on.
...With a post like this, how did you get that tag?
I will refrain from saying anything about "best" since I lack enough experience with the genre, but I also enjoy Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
Shiren holds a special place in my heart, but that's a console series.
Users of gvim get the best of both worlds.
forgeforsaken
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Don't Starve is pretty good and I think qualifies.
NeckToChicken
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Another vote for dungeon crawl stone soup.
On my first and only victory, I played a healer who pacified more monsters than I killed, including a lich who when killed resurrects some time later. Instead of fighting a battle I wouldn't normally win, I ended up turning him neutral and watched him leave the dungeon. Made for a proud moment.
Add in that it's free and it has an optional user friendly (compared to ASCII) tiled interface, and it's a recipe for eaten time.
On my first and only victory, I played a healer who pacified more monsters than I killed, including a lich who when killed resurrects some time later. Instead of fighting a battle I wouldn't normally win, I ended up turning him neutral and watched him leave the dungeon. Made for a proud moment.
Add in that it's free and it has an optional user friendly (compared to ASCII) tiled interface, and it's a recipe for eaten time.