Road Not Taken
Pathos:Nethack Codex
Dungelot: Shattered Lands
Unleashed Pixel Dungeon
Soul Knight
Flinthook
Monster Slayers
Shrouded in Sanity
NetHack
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Pixel Dungeon
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Brogue
Caves of Qud
Dungeons of Dredmor
Based on our record, NetHack seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 22 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.
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: about 1 year 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: about 1 year 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: over 1 year ago
Pathos:Nethack Codex - Pathos: Nethack Codex developed and published by Callan Hodgskin is a Single-player Adventure, Role-playing, and Rogue-like video game.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is an open-source, single-player, role-playing roguelike game of...
Dungelot: Shattered Lands - Dungelot: Shattered Lands is an Action-Adventure, Role-playing, and Single-player video game developed by Red Winter Software and published by tinyBuild.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon - A Roguelike RPG, with randomly generated levels, items, enemies, and traps!
Unleashed Pixel Dungeon - Rogue-like, dungeon crawler based on Shattered Pixel Dungeon, with tons of enhancements.
Pixel Dungeon - Pixel Dungeon is a traditional roguelike game with pixel-art graphics and simple interface.