Brogue
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
NetHack
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Pixel Dungeon
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Caves of Qud
Tales of Maj'Eyal (ToME)
POWDER
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
NetHack
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Pixel Dungeon
Angband
Veleza
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
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Based on our record, Brogue should be more popular than POWDER. It has been mentiond 23 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I believe the original author of most of this content was Brian Walker, creator of brogue, which uses Dijkstra maps to great effect. In my opinion, brogue is the greatest 'modern' traditional roguelike. Latest 'community' version: https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE original game: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
The Ground Gives Way and Brogue(follow the link to the Community Edition) are, in my opinion, the best introductions to traditional roguelikes out there. Source: over 1 year ago
To start, I would recommend Brogue or The Ground Gives Way. Both are very simplified and have an accessible, modern approach. Tales of Maj'Eyal, while more complex, also a more modern game feel to it that might be appealing. There are two main types of roguelike gameplay: dungeon delvers, and expansive open worlds. Both Brogue and TGGW are the former, so it's easy to jump into a game, get the basic idea, and get... Source: over 1 year ago
Personally, I very much recommend Brogue (its subreddit). It's a difficult game, but it is free and will certainly scratch that problemsolve-itch. Say, you are on a stroll alongside a cliff, and you come across a nasty group of spearwielding goblins, backed up by priests that cover them in magical shields? This encounter is not a nut that you can crack by engaging them head on, as you only have a dagger as of now.... Source: over 1 year ago
Great news! For Brogue, [Brian Walker’s email](penderprime@gmail.com) is public so you can reach out to him there to ask if he’s cool with it. Source: over 1 year ago
Powder is a fun roguelike for the gba (and other systems). Source: about 1 year ago
Going into slightly more obscure stuff, POWDER fits your criteria - original game, 16x16 default tile set with other tile sets available, Linux port available since the mid-aughts, etc. No idea if any distros had it in their repositories at the time, I only really played it on the DS. Source: almost 2 years ago
I had nothing to do with roguelikes for many years, but one day I discovered POWDER, and it all suddenly clicked! Now roguelikes are muy favorite video game genre. No thanks to NetHack :). Source: almost 3 years ago
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is an open-source, single-player, role-playing roguelike game of...
NetHack - NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer...
Shattered Pixel Dungeon - A Roguelike RPG, with randomly generated levels, items, enemies, and traps!
Pixel Dungeon - Pixel Dungeon is a traditional roguelike game with pixel-art graphics and simple interface.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a Survival, Turn-Based, Post-Apocalypse, and Single-Player video game produced by CleverRaven.
Angband - Angband is a free, single-player dungeon exploration game.
