Based on our record, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead seems to be a lot more popular than POWDER. While we know about 83 links to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, we've tracked only 3 mentions of POWDER. 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.
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
That said, I recommend Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, which offers something like this. Source: 5 months ago
It can be accessed at : https://cdda.social/ (You can also see it linked at https://cataclysmdda.org/, under "Project Managed Resources"). Source: 10 months ago
Dwarf Fortress Adventure mode, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, and UnReal World have many of the same sandbox and mechanical elements. Source: 11 months ago
The link to the main page is https://cataclysmdda.org/. Source: 11 months ago
So for some reason the installer on cataclysmdda.org isn't working for me. So I figured I'd try another way and install it via Homebrew, but I get an error:. Source: 11 months ago
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