Nuclear Throne
Enter the Gungeon
The Binding of Isaac
Streets of Rogue
Oceanhorn
Zelda Classic
Hyper Light Drifter
God's Trigger
POWDER
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
NetHack
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Brogue
Pixel Dungeon
100 Rogues
Tales of Maj'Eyal (ToME)
Nuclear ThroneBased on our record, POWDER should be more popular than Nuclear Throne. It has been mentiond 3 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.
Here's the nuclear throne product page where it has a link titled "offical wiki" so it seems like it is/was (nuclear-throne.wikia.com redirects to nuclear-throne.fandom.com since they're the same site now). Source: over 2 years ago
For me, one of the best roguelites is Nuclear Throne. They have permadeath, they have procedural levels, the have difficulty peaks but all is set correctly. All the progress come on the skills. We, as a player, sense that we are better and better to beat the game and reach the throne. Source: about 3 years 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
Enter the Gungeon - Enter the Gungeon is a gunfight dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is an open-source, single-player, role-playing roguelike game of...
The Binding of Isaac - The Binding of Isaac is a 2011 independent video game designed by Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl.
NetHack - NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer...
Streets of Rogue - Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities in Streets of Rogue, out now on PS4, Steam, Switch, Xbox One
Shattered Pixel Dungeon - A Roguelike RPG, with randomly generated levels, items, enemies, and traps!