Based on our record, NetHack seems to be a lot more popular than Hero Siege. While we know about 22 links to NetHack, we've tracked only 1 mention of Hero Siege. 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.
Prior to 3.1.x the dat subdirectory didn't exist yet but data.base was present somewhere, possibly in the src subdirectory instead. I don't know whether it goes as far back as hack 1.x or even nethack 2.x. The source code for a bunch of old versions is present at https://nethackwiki.com/ but I'm not sure whether the data files are all there too. The source code for the most recent released version (3.6.7) is... Source: 11 months ago
I am not sure what extra benefits the Steam version has, but the game is available for free either as download on nethack.org, or to play online at something like alt.org/nethack or hardfought.org. Source: 11 months ago
You don't even need two people to play D&D, Nethack is great! Source: about 1 year ago
I've always been fond of the last quote on nethack.org. Source: about 1 year ago
It was discussed here last fall, when the home page for nethack.org was updated to mention it. The blurb includes a few other tiny screen shots and says the exhibit is scheduled to be open until mid-July. Source: about 1 year ago
So June 14th will be the launch date and everything so far looks to be going right on schedule. We will be the patch notes posted to panicartstudios.com, the Hero Siege official Discord, here on Reddit and on Steam. Do not have an exact ETA for the patch notes but I am going to assume we will have them done a few days prior. Source: almost 2 years ago
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